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Radioactive Show
by Emma, Michaela, Sam, Johan, Manju, Reed & TJ.
Current news and information on nuclear, peace and energy issues.
Episodes
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No Future for Fascism
This weeks' show remembers and honours the destruction of Gaza and escalation of genocide since October 7th. We share Mahmoud Darwish poem from State of Siege and song Palestine Will Never Die by lowkey feat Mai Kahlil. We also pay attention to the coalition's recent announcement of its migration...
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International Peace Day Rally Against AUKUS
On today's show we'll be hearing some of the speeches from The International Peace Day Rally Against AUKUS held outside the US Embassy and Consulate at 533 St.Kilda Rd in Melbourne on Sunday 20 September.We'll hear from the MC Natalie Farrah from the Anti Military Action Network, Djap Wurrung &...
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Nuclear Waste Dump updates from ANFA
Today we'll be hearing updates and discussions around nuclear waste on this continent recorded at the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) meeting held at Pichi Richi park in August.Facilitating the session is long nuclear free campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation and the...
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AUKUS Public Inquiry: An update from ANFA
The AUKUS Public Inquiry is coordinated by the Australian Peace and Security Forum (APSF) and is committed to a serious evidence-based independent examination of all things related to the Australia, UK and US military pact that was publicly unveiled 5 years ago in September 2021.Today we bring…
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ANFA 2026 Report & Pine Gap Petition!
Aunty Sue Haseldine, Googatha elder and President of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance reflects on the recent meeting of the alliance in Pichi Rich park, so called South Australia.We hear more speeches from the Close Pine Gap - Sacred Land Back Convergence that saw the 500 strong group of...
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Talk the Walk: Peace Walk Against AUKUS featuring Umeewarra Radio
Reed and Max from the Nuclear Free Collective visited Umeewarra Radio on Barngarla/Nukunu Country in Port Augusta, in preparation for the second Peace Walk Against AUKUS. They speak with Uncle Harry Dare and Dre Ngatokorua on 6 August.More information and registration for the 2026 Peace Walk...
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Hiroshima Day 2026 - Singing for Peace
We mark Hiroshima Day 2026 with recordings from the 'Singing for Peace' event at the State Library of Victoria. Featuring a speech from Janet Craven, Australian Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, poetry from Sato Itoh and Kaori Okubo, and song from Singing with...
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Close Pine Gap, Sacred Land Back
Today we continue reporting on the 'Close Pine Gap - Sacred Land Back Convergence', held on Arrernte Country in Alice Springs from 17-20 July. Kuyunba is the Arrernte name for the sacred ancestral land occupied by the joint Australian-US military intelligence facility of Pine Gap near Alice...
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Pine Gap Convergence
We bring you footage from the Pine Gap Convergence, the first in a series of episodes to come.In this instalment, we explore the origins of Pine Gap and hear political analysis from David Shoebridge, recorded during one of the convergence panels. We pay our respect to Arrernte people of whose...
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2006-2016 Rad Shows
A Radioactive Show featuring recordings from 2006-2016 as picked out by Radioactive Show producers from that time. With the theme of 'journey', hear some powerful clips from that decade which really resonate with current struggles.
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A Time For Action Not Amnesia.
On Friday 3 July at Balam Balam Place on Kulin Land, 100 people gathered for a candlelight vigil and talanoa as part of the Pacific Peace Pilgrimage 2026.The Pacific Peace Pilgrimage was organised by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Quakers Australia and the Pacific…
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Heal Country NAIDOC 2021 (repeat)
A repeat of a 2021 pre-NAIDOC week show featuring Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Vicki Abdullah and Uncle Kevin Buzzacott. NAIDOC theme was 'Heal Country'.
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Still Seeking Justice for Nuclear Testing in the Pacific
As we approach the 80th anniversary of the first of around 300 nuclear explosions imposed on the Pacific by colonial powers, and mark the 60th anniversary of the French nuclear testing in the Pacific, we dip into the archives and bring you a show that first aired in 2006 and was presented by…
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Changes to the Roxby Downs Indenture legislation
This week's show, hosted by the Friends of the Earth Nuclear Free Collective, discusses the recent alarming changes to the Roxby Downs Indenture legislation & the to the sacred mound springs on Arabunna country where BHP draws up to 42 million litres of water a day from the Great Artesian Basin.…
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Speaking to Ray Acheson: from the NPT to Pine Gap
Featuring a conversation with Ray Acheson in New York, wherein they dissect the 2026 Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), discuss the status of International law and disarmament treaties in our current era, and consider the importance of the upcoming Pine Gap Sacred Land Back Convergence....
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Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Mining: A Toxic Trade
Today we are joined by Liz Downes and Lee Tan to discuss the rush for rare earth mining and critical mineral processing to feed the 'green' energy revolution, new technology and the needs of the military industrial complex.We take a close look at Australian company Lynas's Advanced Materials…
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40 Years of Chornobyl Vigil
This weeks show hosted by the Nuclear Free Collective shares recordings from the 40 Years of Chernobyl Vigil held on Monday evening in Naarm (Melbourne). Speeches by Reed, O'Loughlin, Dave Sweeney and Kirsten Blair. The songs featured in this episode are from the Chornobyl Songs Project: Living...
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Shut Down White Mesa Mill: Show from the archives
This show from the archives 'Uranium Mill Protest on Native American Land' features recordings from the Ute Mountain Ute Native American protest against the White Mesa Uranium Mill on their land from April 2017. Presenter KA Garlick interviews White Mesa Community Leaders Priscellna Rabbit and...
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Global Days of Action on Military Spending
Today we take a look at some of the research and actions around military spending on this continent as we mark the beginning of the month long Global Days of Action on Military Spending initiated by the International Peace Bureau. First up we'll hear from Jaimie Jeffries, Co-convenor of the...
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Uranium Mining by Stealth
The Donald Rare Earths and Mineral Sands Project is in the Wimmera region of Victoria, about 300 km north-west of Melbourne. The Donald Project plans to develop a massive mineral deposit discovered in the 1970s. The Victorian Government approved the Donald Project work plan for construction and...
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Aukus Pillar II with Dr Scheherazade Bloul
This conversation with Dr Scheherazade Bloul traces the pathways into AUKUS Pillar II, examining how universities are increasingly entangled in military research and defence infrastructure. We explore the implications of this alignment and what it means for knowledge production, power, and the...
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Remembering Fukushima: 15 Years of a Nuclear Nightmare
On the 11th of March fifteen years ago, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the east coast of Japan triggering a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant. Vast amounts of radioactive contamination were suddenly released into the environment and around 150,000 people were forced to flee…
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Nuclear workshop held in Lutruwita
On March 1st, about 20 people came together for an anti-nuclear workshop held in Lutruwita at an activist camp organised by Grass Roots Action Network Tasmania (GRANT). Nuclear Free Collective coordinators Reed and Manju teamed up with our friends at Beyond Uranium Canberra, to discuss AUKUS in…
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Social Costs of AUKUS
Sharing audio from an online forum organised by no nuclear subs SA, ‘Stop the AUKUS nuclear submarines’, held on February 11. Firstly we’ll hear from Dr Margie Beavis, from the Medical Association for Prevention of War, and ICAN - the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Margie will...
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Close Nurrungar: Peace Camps in the early 90's
From the 21-23rd of February World Beyond War have called the Global Days of Action to #CloseBases. For all the details of Close Bases actions globally go to worldbeyondwar.org/closebases.As actions to close military bases across the continent and around the globe are underway, we bring you a…
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The end of New START
Today we speak with Dr.Tilman Ruff about the end of the New START Treaty, that removes a significant nuclear restraint between Russia and the United States, which together possess 87% of the world’s nuclear weapons. Under New START, the United States and Russia were limited to deploy each a…
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The Sacred Runs Pt. 1 with Marcus Atkinson
This week's show is about running for country, community and life. We celebrate the efforts of the mutual aid fun run and share reflections on the legacy, learnings and ongoing relevance of The Sacred Runs. A series of ceremonial and political runs led by Dennis Banks in solidarity with many…
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Young people of the intergenerational Anti-nuclear movement
This week is the first of a regular update from Friends of the Earth Melbourne's Nuclear Free Collective coordinators Reed and Manju. Reed interviews Ibi and River, two young anti-nuclear activists, about how they got involved and what motivates them to organise against nuclear developments.Keep…
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2025 to 2026: Looking back, looking forward.
Johan, Sam, Manju and Michaela are joined by anti-nuclear legends Dr.Jim Green - National Nuclear-Free Campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia and Aunty Sue Haseldine - Googatha elder and President of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance to reflect on some of the events of 2025 and look...
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Nuclear Weapons and Gender-based Violence
We mark the 16 Days of Activism on Gender-based Violence by hearing from Ray Acheson, an organizer, activist, writer and Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the world's oldest feminist peace organisation....
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Mobilisations for Demilitarisation
Alison from Demilitarise Newcastle speaks with us about the military expansion in their region and their week of mobilisation for #earthcarenotwarfare coming up from December 1-9. Followed by Adam from Mparntwe for Falastin, a community group protesting the role of the Pine Gap joint…
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ANFA 2025: Mining impacts and protecting country
Today we bring you some interviews from the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance Meeting 2025, held on Nukunu country at Pichi Richi park over the 29-31 August. Adnyamathanha woman Deidre Coulthard shared their concerns about ongoing impacts of the Leigh Creek coal mine that continues to pollute the...
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Arms industry influence: from the National Press Club to national policy.
In this program we spoke with Michelle Fahy, an independent researcher investigating links between the weapons industry and Australian Government about her latest report on arms companies providing almost a quarter of the National Press Club's sponsorship. We also catch up with Australian…
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AUKUS Update: Nuclear safety
We are joined by Reed O'Loughlin - one of the Coordinators for the Friends of the Earth Nuclear Free Collective and David Noonan - Independent Environmental Campaigner, to discuss some of the latest developments under AUKUS.On 1 November, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety...
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No missiles - No militarisation
Today we bring you more speeches from the rally against rocket testing on Googatha country, led by Googatha elder Aunty Sue Haseldine, that brought together hundred of supporters at the Australian Space Agency offices and Parliament House in Adelaide on unceded Kaurna yarta, on 10 October...
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Wollongong Against War and Nukes
We dive into the story and recent organising of WAWAN, Wollongong Against War and Nukes, with founding members Gem Romuld and Alexander Brown. We hear about WAWAN's formation in response to the proposal of a nuclear submarine port at Port Kembla, as well as the strong peace and anti-military...
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No Consent! Rally against rocket testing
On 10 October West Mallee Protection held a 'No Consent!' rally and march in Adelaide to oppose a rocket testing range on Googatha country. Googatha elder Aunty Sue Haseldine traveled from Ceduna in South Australia's far west to visit the Australian Space Agency and SA Parliament in Adelaide to...
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Introducing the Rad Show Archives with Eric Miller
Sam conducts an interview with former producer of the Radioactive Show: Eric Miller. Eric wrote, produced, panelled and drove the Radioactive Show for an incredible 18 year period from 1988-2006.Eric transferred his archives of the show back to the Radioactive Show team , and we discussed the...
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Nuclear Weapons and Survivors: Australian Nuclear Free Alliance 2025
September 27 marks the anniversary of the first British atomic test at Maralinga in South Australia in 1956. Between 1952 -1957 three tests were carried out on the Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia followed by nine nuclear weapon tests at Emu Field and Maralinga in South...
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Cancel AUKUS: International Day of Peace
On the 21 September you can join in the National Day of Action Against Miltarisation and AUKUS.We bring an update on AUKUS developments in the south west with Nuclear Free WA campaigner KA Garlick and recordings from an AUKUS session at the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting held at Pichi...
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Uranium: the scene of the crime. Australian Nuclear Free Alliance 2025
We return to the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting held over the weekend of 29-31 August at Pichi Richi Park in South Australia. ANFA is an Aboriginal led grassroots alliance of people and organisations working for a nuclear free future. The annual meeting is a place for multi-generational...
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Stories of Success: Australian Nuclear Free Alliance 2025
From 29th - 31 August the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting was held on Nukunu country, at Pitchi Richi Park in so called "South Australia". Since 1997 this Aboriginal led alliance has brought people together from across the continent to share information, strategies for defeating…
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British Nuclear Subs: Lessons for us
Initially announced in September 2021, the AUKUS trilateral "security" partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, involves two lines of effort referred to as pillars. Pillar 1 focuses on Australia acquiring nuclear-powered attack submarines and the rotational basing...
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The Fire Still Burns
Recordings from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Australia online event that brought together survivors, artists, campaigners and parliamentarians to reflect on Hiroshima’s legacy - and the urgent task of disarmament on the 80 th Anniversary of the US bombing of Hiroshima on...
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Hiroshima Stories - 80 Years On
Today we continue to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the first use of nuclear weapons in war. On August 6 1945 the US army dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima Japan with devastating effect. The intergenerational effects of the atomic bomb are ongoing and first up we'll hear...
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80 Years of the Atomic Bomb!
On the 16th of July, 1945 at 5.30am the US detonated the first atomic weapon in the Jornada del Muerto desert over the lands of the Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache peoples of what's now know as New Mexico. No one was evacuated from the area and the people living downwind are still suffering to this…
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Empire and AI
Have you been thinking about AI aka Artificial intelligence, or AGI aka Artificial General Intelligence recently? It’s moving so fast and I think it’s vital that we engage critically with it. Today I’ll bring you audio thanks to Democracy Now, an interview with Karen Hao, the author of a recent...
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Protecting Kokatha Country: The next generations
For this year's NAIDOC theme 'The Next Generation: Strength, Legacy & Vision' we hear two generations of Googatha (Kokatha) people discussing caring for country. Aunty Sue Haseldine is a Googatha elder that has been leading 6 monthly Rockhole Recovery trips to care for sacred waterholes, part of...
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The Land Remembers and Love Transforms, Yoorrook Walk for Truth.
This weeks episode we gratefully share Travis Lovett's speech from the Yoorrook Walk for Truth. Songs by Barkaa and Kee'ahn. Ngā mihi nui.
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