Perth Indymedia

We speak to Greens MLC Sophie Mcneil about the campaign to introduce a 25% tax on gas exports and the disappointing response from the federal and state Labor governments.

A recent investigation has exposed what's being called an "online rape academy" - online forums where men share tactics for committing sexual violence. The investigation is a confronting look at how widespread and organised this behaviour can be. Raymond Grenfell spoke to founder and CEO of What Were You Wearing? Sarah Williams.

As Israel and the United States launch their long-awaited attack on Iran, and the Middle East teeters on the edge of all-out regional war, Alex Whisson explains how we got here and what might happen next.

We speak to Greens MLC Sophie Mcneil about proposed new protest laws in WA and the implication to our right to political demonstration.

As the Australian government rolls out the red carpet for the visit of Israel's President Isaac Herzog, Alex Whisson speaks to Rawan Arraf, Executive Director and Principal Lawyer of the Australian Centre for International Justice, to discuss the case against him for incitement of genocide.

Troy Turner from Democratic Socialists of America discusses the ongoing resistance to the ICE raids in cities throughout the USA.

Indymedia investigates WA Police's chaotic evacuation of Boorloo's annual Invasion Day Rally after an attempted terrorist attack. Speaking to over 40 attendees and marshals - we demonstrate a lack of urgency on behalf of WAPOL, as well as a the use of unnecessary force and the absence of cultural understanding during a major threat to community. Written and narrated by Joni Boyd Cover image courtesy of NITV Originally broadcast on RTRFM 92.1

Queer Liberation Boorloo marched with a range of groups at the annual Perth Pride Parade in solidarity with Palestine - Indymedia's Joni Boyd was there to catch it. Originally broadcast on RTRFM 92.1

Mel from Rising Tide chats to Indymedia's Joni Boyd. Mel was arrested over the weekend for swimming into the Newcastle coal port - the world's largest- as part of a large protest that shut down the port for the day and lead to over a hundred arrests of climate activists. Originally broadcast live on RTRFM 92.1 Image via The Guardian.

We speak to Greens MLC Jess Beckerling about the proposed State Development Bill 2025, a very concerning bill that would see the state's premier Roger Cook able to bypass environmental laws and regulations to push through major developments in WA.

Indymedia's Joni Boyd chats with William and Mia from the growing WA branch of the Renters and Housing Union about the rapidly worsening rental crisis and the branch's upcoming protest outside the WA Labor conference this Saturday the 8th November. Originally broadcast on RTRFM92.1 on 03/11/2025 Banner image via RAHU's national facebook page - 21/12/2020

Indymedia's Phil Evans reports on the Tuesday 9th September Lock The Gate Alliance/Frack Free WA rally at state parliament calling the Cook Government to reject a bid by American company Black Mountain to open at least 20 wells in the Kimberly. Read by Joni Boyd. Picture from the ABC. Originally broadcast on RTRFM92.1 on 15/09/2025

Joni Boyd's live reporting and analysis on efforts to counter and disrupt the Nazi organised anti-immigrant "March For Australia" in Perth on the 31st August 2025. Originally broadcast on RTRFM 92.1

We chat to Chloe from Friends Of the Earth about new proposed restrictions to protest in Victoria.

Social Reinvestment CEO, Sophie Stewart, joins the show to discuss Hakea Prison. In recent weeks, news has come from Eamon Ryan, Inspector of Custodial Services, that several National and International human rights standards are being breached. Issues concerning overcrowding, underfunding, prisoners placed in constant lockdown are being made aware by Mr Ryan, who wants the government to hold a formal inquiry into the problems at Hakea and what needs to be done to improve it. Indymedia’s Joni Boyd spoke with Sophie Stewart about the ongoing issues in Hakea Prison at alternatives to incarceration. Originally broadcast on RTRFM92.1

We speak to James Godfrey from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition about Israel's illegal raid of the Handala, the latest vessel to attempt to break the blockade of Gaza.

Students of Palestine Campaigner, Jasmine Duff, Highlights A Broken Judicial System In Australia; five charges against her were dropped, after being charged during a protest of The Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition, in Melbourne 2024. We discuss government inaction, the war in Palestine, anti-protest laws, grassroots activism and the broader socialist movement, in the wake of the last federal election.

Indyemdia's Joni Boyd reports on last Saturday's STOP AUKUS event at The Buffalo Club from the newly formed Youth Against War and Facism. Voices include WA Greens MLC Sophie McNeil, YAWF's Patrick Truman-Healy, long time Freo activist Sam Wainright and poet Mena Tabeshfar - also a member of YAWF. Originally broadcast on RTRFM.

We speak to Pakistani political activist and academic Ammar Ali Jan about the recent escalation in conflict between Pakistan and India, as well as the broader geopolitical forces at play.

Former NSW Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon speaks to Alex Whisson about her experiences making the new MUA-funded documentary film, Palestinians Don't Need SIdewalks.

As a fragile ceasefire finally comes into effect in Gaza, Nasser Mashni, President of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, joined Alex Whisson to discuss the politics and logistics of the truce, brokered by Egypt, Qatar and the United States, and what might happen at the end of the first phase of the agreement in six weeks' time.

El Gibbs is a writer and deputy ceo of DANA, the Disability Advocacy network Australia. Recently she had a chat with Indymedia's Jack Prendergast to discuss cost blowouts tot he NDIS and possible non-market based alternative's to the scheme.

Alex Whisson analyses what Donald Trump's extraordinary triumph in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election will mean for workers in the United States and around the world.

Tone Wheeler is a Sydney based-architect, the president of the Australian Architechture Association and has extensive knowledge about public housing in Australia. Last week he spoke with Indymedia's Jack Prendergast to discuss public housing's history and the compounding economic effects of not providing housing for all.

Jordan Van Den Lamb, AKA Purplepingers, has been steadfast in his advocacy for a paradigm shift in Australia's housing system. Here he talks with Indymedia's Jack Prendergast about what he hopes for in his bid for the national senate, adverse possession laws and the importance of organising with your friends to fight the power imbalance at the heart of our housing crisis.

Doug Henwood is an author, commentator, contributing editor at The Nation, and host of Behind the News on KPFA Radio, part of the Pacifica Radio Network. As we finally reach the end of what has seemed like the longest campaign in modern political history, he joined Alex Whisson to discuss the perils, pitfalls and possibilities of the American Presidential election.

Since its formation during the early uneasiness of the first lockdowns, the Renters And Housing Union (RAHU) have developed a reputation for their uncompromising defense of tenant's rights. A recent expansion to WA sees Ben Millward (General Secretary) and Sadie Ward (WA delegate) in conversation with Jack Prendergast.

Philip Chilton is a historian at Curtin University and a rank-and-file activist with the National Tertiary Education Union. He has an academic interest in studying various forms of political extremism and it’s in that context he joined Alex Whisson to discuss yesterday's Christian Zionist rally on the steps of the State Parliament.

Na Mon from AMSWAG (Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group) chats to Joni Boyd about a south east Asian trans woman who had her visa cancelled by Border Force and has spent the last ten weeks in male detention at Villawood. There, the woman has been sexually assaulted, isolated, intimidated and denied medical treatment. Na Mon also goes into the profiling of south east Asian women under 30 being disproportionately targeted by border force and AMSWAG's campaign to end profiling, border turn backs and mandatory detention for migrants awaiting visa outcomes.

We speak to Professor Neville Bruce about the WA Grandparents for Climate Action's bike ride from Perth to Canberra, protesting WA's gas expansion.

As Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinian people continues unabated, and as Netanyahu's campaign of terror expands to Lebanon and the wider region, Alex Whisson spoke to Mustafa, chair of the Palestinian Community of WA, to discuss an upcoming charity event, the Run for Palestine.

Richard Hamilton from Victims of Nicheliving joins Alex Whisson once again to discuss the latest twists and turns in the long-running saga.

Lebanese-Australian and education leader for Mums for Palestine, Yasmin Roz, joined Alex Whisson to discuss Israel's ongoing atrocities in Lebanon.

In the midst of Israeli atrocities in Lebanon, and as the genocide in Gaza continues unabated, Alex Whisson spoke to Gamel Kheir, Secretary of the Lebanese Muslim Association in NSW.

After the a second death of a child in custody in ten months - Boorloo Justice and the Justice for Cleveland Dodd campaign rallied at Parliament House on Thursday to call on the state government to close Unit 18 and overhaul WA's youth justice system. Indymedia's Joni Boyd reports. Broadcast on 23/09/2024

We speak to one of the organisers from Disrupt Land Forces in Melbourne about the protests, reportage and state repression.

Joni follows up on last week's chat with Disrupt Land Forces about the beginning of the mobilisation against the massive arms expo. She's joined by Louis who gives an update on the truth telling circle that launched the campaign, the disruption of roads into the convention centre and the tank escorted into the venue by a $500,000 police presence.

We speak to Nathalie, an organiser for Disrupt Land Forces, about the upcoming protests in Melbourne in opposition to the Land Forces International Defence Exposition.

After construction company Nicheliving failed to have its building license renewed in July, hundreds of home builders were in line for insurance claims and therefore the possible completion of their homes. Now, however, the State Administative Tribunal has approved a stay on that order, allowing the conpany to continue its operations for the time being, and once again leaving dozens of families in the lurch, with seemingly no one to support them. RIchard Hamilton joined Alex Whisson to discuss the implications of the SAT's ruling, and where matters might proceed from here in this long-running saga.

In another edition of Fieldnotes on the road to global war, Alex Whisson presents a brief summary of the global situation across multiple theatres and potential theatres of war.

The United States has declared Venezuelan right wing opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez the winner of July's Presidential election, with Joe Biden citing "overwhelming evidence" for the claim. Did Nicolas Maduro win the election fairly and squarely? And is there another Washington-led coup attempt underway?

Long suffering home builder Richard Hamilton joined Alex Whisson to discuss the latest chapter in the Nicheliving saga, the construction company which has become a byword for everything wrong with the Western Australian housing industry.

Last week NDIS minister Bill Shorten annouced sex work would be removed from the NDIS. The decision has been widely protested by sex worker rights groups and disability activists. Indymedia's Joni Boyd chatted to Lua; a disabled sex worker from DeCrim WA and Smut Club film festival about the ramifications.

Alex Whisson discusses all the potentially seismic political ramifications of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in rural Pennsylvania.

Professor Salim Vally, the National Research Foundation Chair in Community, Worker and Adult Education at the University of Johannesburg, joined Alex Whisson to discuss the recent South African elections, in which the African National Congress for the first time lost its absolute majority in parliament.

We speak to local film maker Jane Hammond about her latest film in development: Browned Off. A documentary on the developing ecological crisis facing our south-west forests, with over 1000 Km of forest and woodland already dying off as a result of the changing climate. To support the film head to: https://documentaryaustralia.com.au/project/browned-off/

Executive Director of the Australian Centre for International Justice, Rawana Arraf, joined Alex Whisson to discuss the jailing of military whistleblower David McBride, and the prospects for justice being served in the war crimes he brought to light.

For this edition of Fieldnotes on the road to global war, Alex Whisson explores the advances in military technology on the battlefields of recent and current wars, with a particular focus on the revolutionary use of weaponised drones in Nagorno-Karabakh and Ukraine.

In a historically unprecedented development, Tehran launched hundreds of drones and missiles against Israeli targets, in response to the assassination of senior Iranian military officers in Damascus. Alex Whisson discussed the dangers and temptations of viewing this attack as an act of solidarity with anti-imperialist forces.

Nathalie Farah is a writer and advocate from Naarm/Melbourne. She joined Alex Whisson and Joni Boyd to discuss the various mobilisations taking place in response to the call for escalatory, economically disruptive action in solidarity with the people of Palestine.