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Radical Radio
3CR has a number of special broadcasts each year to celebrate important community activist events. These broadcasts are staged at live events around Melbourne or in the studios of 3CR in Fitzroy.
Episodes
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Into the fold Episode 3: It just kind of snowballed
All our guests return to invite you a little deeper into their lives. They discuss their evolving relationships with radio — including paid and volunteer career paths — and the distinctive, personal experiences that inform them.Guests: Tash Brake, Madonna Brady, Paul Price, Gemma...
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Into the fold Episode 2: Inside baseball
Let's dig more into process. Audio Ability offers blended learning for people with disability who would like to develop their skills, knowledge and voice in creative industries, whatever their level of experience. Hear what mentors and students actually do... as well as what goes into making such…
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Into the Fold Episode 1: So Immediate
Where disabled people in broadcasting define and deliver their own professional development infrastructure.Current and former students, mentors, and managers demonstrate how community stations and people who have disabilities can help each other thrive.In among these fun and candid conversations,...
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People for Peace and Justice Concert
Vivien Langford brings you recordings from the People for Peace and Justice Concert, an afternoon of music and stories on May 3rd 2026, hosted by the Pitt St Uniting Church in Sydney.You will hear one of the best welcomes to country by Uncle Brendan Keren and ecstatic music in Turkish, Farsi and...
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Eureka 2025: Eureka Australia Medal Presentations, Bakery Hill Ballarat
To find more audio from 3CR's Eureka Day 2025 Special Programming, head to www.3cr.org.au/eureka171Eureka Australia Medal Presentations, Bakery Hill Ballarat, 3 Dec 2025A recording of lifetime awards presented by Reclaim the Radical Spirit & Ballarat Regional Trades & Labour Council (BTRLC), and...
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NDIS/Sex Work
Presenter James Harkness interviews two sex workers, Kai and Pixie, about the NDIS changes which occurred in October 2024, which now prevent people with disabilities from using their NDIS funds to pay for sex workers.Transcript Here
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Bodily autonomy & sex work
Produced by Amy Ciara (she/her) of Kill Your Lawn & Kick Your Fence. Guest Charlie Bear (they/them) interviews Melinah Viking (she/her) about autonomy and belonging as an ably diverse sex worker. Melinah is an award winning porn, cam and full service sex worker, and advocate. Charlie is a hands…
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Brainwaves - Disability Day 2025
Bestselling author Jennifer Scoullar joins Brainwaves host Flic Manning to talk about her new novel ‘Wild Horses’ — and the powerful role relationships with animals, with nature, and storytelling can play in supporting mental wellbeing.In the second half, Brainwaves host Mark Eastwood interviews...
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Chronically Online Friendship
Kaitlyn Blythe explores the challenges and benefits of friendship while disabled. Social isolation is a common experience for chronically ill and disabled people, especially when we face ableism from our immediate family and non-disabled friends. Friendship between disabled folks becomes…
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Self-advocacy: setting sail for a positive future
VALID staff share real stories of hiring people with disability, and how they co-design programs that lead to better services and reform.Having a Say Conference is Australia's largest conference for people with disabilities, it is a platform to speak up, be heard and respected. The next Having a...
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BIPOC Arts
BIPOC Creative Access Collective members Pearl Blackk (Artist & inclusive community facilitator) and Natasha Peiris (Bi-Cultural Disability Support worker, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula, Decolonial Alchemist and Well-being Advocate and Educator). They talk to Pauline...
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RIGHT RELATIONS
Care for Children, Care for Elders, Care for Country, care for Ancestors.Beginning with 5 minute feature 'Camp Sovereignty: Safety and Accessibility' by Uncle Robbie Thorpe (Bunjil's Fire), and featuring the voices of Renay Barker-Mulholland, Gi Brown, and Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine.Presented by...
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Hear Our Good Stories
South Sudanese community carers and clients share stories of great NDIS care supporting people with disabilities.Transcript Here
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Mapping Our Care Webs: Strategies for Imperfect Survival
Presented by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, part of the Disability Unbound Lecture Series (produced by Disability South and Disability South Rising). Care is a need and a right, for everyone but especially those of us who are disabled. However, care is also complicated- it's not always been…
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Disability and Melbourne Public Transport
Presented by William MacGroarty (2025 CMTO Audio Ability Mentee) and Tilde Joy (Slacker Radio, The Vibe Consultant) this programme will cover disabled people's relationship to the public transport network in Melbourne centring the lived experience of a vision impaired and neurodivergent…
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Surviving Health Care
SLOw is a fully sicko, anti-capitalist speed embodying the wisdom of slowing down, as known by disability pensioners Danielle & Shev. Danielle & Shev get together for a chat about late diagnosis, privilege, getting services from an inadequate system, stigma and disability inclusion in activist...
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Raising Our Voices: A Happier Safer Inclusive Future for ALL
The Raising Our Voices Team interview Janet from the Victorian Self Advocacy Network (VSAN) and talk about the work VSAN have been doing in regards to safety for people with disability. They share their lived experiences and explore who can help make the community a safer place. The team also…
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WEDNESDAY BREAKFAST: DISABILITY DAY SPECIAL
Disability Day Worker Pauline Vetuna and former breakfast presenter Ayan Shirwa welcome you to the Disability Day Breakfast, talking ‘Rights Relations & Innovations’. Featuring music by ICONYX, the Our Stories Our Flats podcast, an interview with Lebanese and Palestinian scholar Dr Lina Koleilat…
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Eureka Day 2025: Spirit of Eureka Anniversary & Whitlam Dismissal
To find more audio from 3CR's Eureka Day 2025 Special Programming, head to www.3cr.org.au/eureka17150 Years Since Whitlam Dismissal & Eureka Rebellion Anniversary EVENTHosted by Spirit of Eureka at MUA Hall in West Melbourne, Sat 29 Nov 2025. Event highlights, originally broadcast on 3CR at…
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Eureka Day 2025: Dawn Service, Live Outside Broadcast
To find more audio from 3CR's Eureka Day 2025 Special Programming, head to www.3cr.org.au/eureka171Live Outside Broadcast: Dawn Service at Eureka Stockade GardensHosted by Reclaim the Radical Spirit of the Eureka Rebellion and Ballarat Regional Trades & Labour Council.The day's celebrations began...
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Eureka Rebellion 170th Anniversary: Outside Broadcast
Live Outside Broadcast at the Dawn Ceremony at the site of the Eureka Stockade for the 170th Anniversary commemoration. This event was held at the Eureka Stockade Gardens in Ballarat, from 4-6am on Tuesday 3rd December 2024, and was organised by Reclaim the Radical Spirit of the Eureka Rebellion...
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DLF2024: Talkback With Attitude
Pat and Joe bring the attitude again this week with their tongue-in-cheek takes on Talkback With Attitude this Thursday 12th September. Listeners and community members share their varied opinions, poems, first-hand observations, and thoughts about the Festival of the Merchants of Death, and…
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DLF2024: Live from the Community Picket of Land Forces weapons expo.
We bring you interviews from the community picket of the opening day of the Land Forces 2024 weapons expo at the Melbourne Convention Centre on Wednesday 11 September. Features recordings from our onsite reporters Priya, Leila and Annie with attendees and an interview with Priya and our…
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DLF2024: Public Planning Meeting Speeches
* Content warning: military violence, atrocities of war, sexual assault, transphobia, suicide.Frontline community members and activists spoke of their experiences at the hands of the global military industrial complex, and the importance of international solidarity against imperialist structures,...
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Talkback with Attitude: Outside Broadcast from Barak Beacon
This special episode of Talkback with Attitude was broadcast live and direct from the Barak Beacon Public Housing Estate in Port Melbourne on 27 July 2023, where the last remaining resident Margaret Kelly continues to resist eviction while the surrounding residences are demolished. Highlighting…
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Rest is SURVIVAL: Hard Out
How are comorbid mental health conditions "officially" recognised when we need government assistance? And how the heck do we navigate not-so-mutual obligations when there's so much else going on? Karina chats with Shy (aka swanbird(link is external), aka swanny b) about the diversity in...
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Rest is SURVIVAL: Stopping Discrimination
Self advocates Chris, Heather, Shona and James (Raising Our Voices), speak up about their experiences as people with intellectual disability with bullying and discrimination. Sharing their experiences and ideas about what they think should change in the community, and why disability awareness...
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Rest is SURVIVAL: Chronically Overlooked - the disproportionate effects of climate change on the disabled community & why no one is talking about it.
Three years on from the 2019/20 Black Summer Bushfires, Chronically Chilled speaks with award-winning journalist and disability advocate Zoe Simmons on her first-hand experiences of watching Batemans Bay burn, and the under-acknowledged intersection of disability and climate change.Presented by...
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Rest is SURVIVAL: First Nations people with a disability and the criminal justice system
First up, Marisa speaks to June Riemer, First Nations woman and Deputy CEO of First Peoples Disability Network, and Kelly Cox, Amabassdor of First Peoples Disability Network. She then catches up with Peta MacGillivray, a Kalkutungu and South Sea Islander lawyer and researcher, who has specialised...
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Rest is SURVIVAL: 'This is what we've got'
We hurt the same, we smile the same. As minority groups, Black, Indigenous, people of colour and people with a disability, we all face the assumptions, racism and ableism of society - but we're here! 'This is What We've Got' will bring you two hours of conversation and music with Ajak Kwai and…
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Rest is SURVIVAL: REST
'Join me, as they talk about the concept of rest as it pertains to the chronically sick and disabled; from neurotransmitters to mental health, ableism, to how workplaces benefit from our rest skills. I consider us to be experts at maintaining and sustaining in a world that tries so often to...
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Rest is SURVIVAL: Diaspora Ease
Pauline caught up with Diaspora Blues presenter, Ayan Shirwa, to discuss life at the moment and the Disability Day theme.Transcript coming soon.
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Rest is SURVIVAL: Exhale with Inkrewsive, and Astrid
This episode from the 2022 Disability Day Broadcast is presented is by Mini aka Racerage (Satellite Skies).Mini speaks with three members of Inkrewsive the inclusive Hip Hop crew, LGM, Andrew and Leigh.We also hear some words and thoughts from Astrid, a disabled trans woman, about the theme of...
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Rest is SURVIVAL: The Future is Disabled
A program on the connections between Long COVID and ME/CFS. Featuring a conversation with Alexa, an artist, former sex worker and ME patient who has been rejected from the NDIS multiple times despite worsening health and high support needs.Transcript coming soon.
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Rest is SURVIVAL: F*** WORK
This episode from the 2022 Disability Day Broadcast is presented is by Pauline Vetuna and Leilani FuamonoRecentering Disabled REST in labour rights and movements for liberation. A wide ranging discussion on the joys of, necessity of and imminent collapse of Twitter, Indigneous anti-capitalist...
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Rest is SURVIVAL: Lucky Country
Sharing some words from a few of the late great Vivian Podesser Malo’s staunch speeches. With some reflections on Viv’s time at 3CR from broadcaster Nicky Stott.Transcript coming soon.
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Rest is SURVIVAL: SICK / SOVEREIGN
Interviews and readings with the creator of and contributors to Sick/Sovereign, a powerful collection of written and visual artwork by disabled Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about their experiences of COVID-19. You can download and read the SICK / SOVEREIGN Zine here. Transcript...
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Rest is SURVIVAL: Public Health Emergency
Tori Hobbs discusses critical health worker-led campaigns this year for better staff conditions and conditions for patients, what the conditions currently are like for both workers and patients in the public health system, how you can support them, and their current relationship with rest as a...
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Rest is SURVIVAL: Disabling Employment Services and Beyond
This episode from the 2022 Disability Day Broadcast is presented is by Iris Lee (Women on the Line & Queering the Air).Around 300,000 disabled people have to navigate the Disability Employment Services (DES) stream of the paltry Jobseeker payment.DES is controversial as the state spends $1.3...
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Rest is SURVIVAL: The Boldness Disability Current Affairs
In this episode, Raphael presents Disability News and Events, with updates on submissions to the Royal Commission on Disability. The Boldness is a Disability current affairs program aired on the third and fifth Wednesdays of the month at 6 pm on 3CR.Presented by Raphael Kaleb.Transcript coming soon.
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Rest is SURVIVAL: SAVING OUR NDIS!
El Gibbs is an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues. 3CR’s Disability Day worker Pauline talks to El in great detail about the recently announced NDIS Review, what’s at stake, and how our disabled community can fight to save the NDIS. El also reflects on the theme of...
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Disability Day 2021: Dreaming Disability Justice + Abolitionist Futures
Stirring performances and readings from Blak and Indigenous writers recorded at this years’ Emerging Writers Festival. Image credit: Renay Barker-MulhollandArtist statement: Flowers grow, the world revolves, and we make it through another day. While the sun sets, the diminishing rays ignite our…
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Disability Day 2021: Billabong Beats
Gavin Moore (Billabong Beats) speaks with Uncle Geoff Maher to look at police harrassment of First Nations people with mental health issues and the need for a community response rather than state violence. Image credit: Renay Barker-MulhollandArtist statement: Flowers grow, the world revolves…
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Disability Day 2021: Mob Dreaming Up: Yarning Sick, Disabled Realities
Disabled and ill Mob yarn on the realities of illness and disability within the colony. Elena Macdonald is joined by Mali, Samia, Renay, Nay and Tabitha. An excerpt of this show, recorded in 2020 as part of 'Imagining Disability Justice'. Image credit: Renay Barker-MulhollandArtist statement:...
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Disability Day 2021: Growing Up Jane In Australia
Spend some time with Jane Rosengrave (Yorta Yorta) from 3CR's Raising Our Voices program. Jane talks about the intersection of ableism and racism against Blackfullas, surviving (and thriving after) violent institutions, strength in culture and self advocacy, and Jane’s chapter in the highly...
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Disability Day 2021: Manifesto for Rest and Survival [on resistance and the power of collective - an Indigenous call to disability justice]
This is sick-form, blak-yarn, crip-space, deep-place. Elena (Paredarerme Nation) explores disability justice and its meaning when grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing. A decolonial approach to disability, and the collective networks of rest, care and resistance that underpin it. Also featuring...
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Stop Black Deaths in Custody Rally 10 April 2021
It's 30 years since the Royal Commission released its final report into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Since then, the deaths have continued, and there’s still no justice. Legendary broadcasters Robbie Thorpe & Viv Malo hosted a live broadcast from the National Day of Action – Stop Aboriginal…
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