Women on the Line
412 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA national feminist current affairs program for community radio. A gender analysis of contemporary issues, as well as in-depth analysis by a range of women and gender diverse people around Australia and internationally. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network (CRN).
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LGBTIQ+ Organising with the UEEH
March 05, 2023 21:30 - 16.6 MBThis week on the program we speak with Kroft about L'université d'été euroméditerranéenne des homosexualités (UEEH), a gathering organised in France by and for LGBTIQ+ people. For decades, the UEEH gathering has been run by and for LGBTIQ+ people and collectives to promote the development and sharing of tools to fight discrimination and for mutual empowerment. With a non-hierarchical and feminist approach to self-organising, the UEEH aims to be a welcoming and secure space where people can s...
Fighting the System
February 26, 2023 21:30 - 25.8 MBThis week on Women on the Line, Juliette McAleer fights to be seen as a whole person, and Nikita Rotumah uses boxing to keep kids fit and safe.
Radioactive wastewater at Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant
February 19, 2023 21:30 - 31.8 MBThis week on the program we speak with Umi Asaka and Tommy or Tomoki Fukui about the planned release of 1.3 million tonnes of water contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant into the ocean. The plant is owned by TEPCO, that’s the Tokyo Electric Power Company, and if it goes ahead the release of this water would continue for a period of 30 years. Umi and Tommy unpack the issues around the radioactive wastewater at Fukushima Daiichi - how the water came to be there and ...
No Cops at Pride
February 19, 2023 20:30 - 25.7 MBOn this episode of Women on the Line we chat with Calev, an illustration and comic artist. They chat with us about their art practice as well as their recent art poster titled No Cops at Pride featured as part of the Gender Garden Exhibition. We then hear snippets from the Pride Street Party 3CR broadcast with PX Whanua and Tongan Cheek,which was held on Sunday 12 February this year.
Organising for Palestine on stolen land
February 05, 2023 21:30 - 12.8 MBToday's show explores Palestinian movement building and solidarity between Palestinians and First Nations people in so-called Australia via edited excerpts from the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network’s inaugural Palestine Solidarity Conference. The conference was held on Kulin Nations land in Melbourne from the 27th to the 29th of January.The first two segments are from the conference's opening plenary session, “Organising for Palestine on stolen land: Solidarity and Intersectionality,” cha...
Fitzroy Crossing and Speeches from Invasion Day 2023
February 05, 2023 21:30 - 40 MBThis week we mark Invasion Day, to do so we’ll go straight into speeches from Narrm’s Invasion Day Rally where we’ll hear from Gurnai/Kurnai and Gunditjmara woman Meriki Onus and Noongar woman Roxy Moore. Listen back to 3CR's Invasion Day 2023 broadcast.Afterwards, we’ll hear an interview with Bunuba, Walmajarri and Cornish/Scottish presenter Natalie Davey from community radio station Wangki Radio in Fitzroy Crossing, who joined Women on the Line presenter Emma Hart to speak about the impact ...
Year of the Water Rabbit/Cat with Fortune
January 22, 2023 21:30 - 31.8 MBOn this episode of Women on the Line we chat with Heidi, Connie and Andra from Fortune – a print and space-making project, assembled by and for queer Asian publics. Tended to in Philadelphia. We chat about queer Asian publishing practices, our predictions for the upcoming lunar new year of the Water Rabbit/Cat and their upcoming lunar new year party.Find more about Fortune via their website or instagram.
Three years of HER 他
January 15, 2023 21:30 - 19 MBNarrm Melbourne based label HER 他 is a music platform and event series founded and headed by DJ and musician Cloudy Ku which recently celebrated its three year anniversary. HER 他 is focussed around building and showcasing an incredible community of diverse artists, reaching deep into local scenes as well as to communities of musicians and listeners across Asia and Europe. We speak with Cloudy about the journey of the label and hear her selections from the artists below. Female Wizard - Malac...
Poverty in Australia
January 08, 2023 21:30 - 15 MBContent warning: This episode touches on some distressing topics, including experiences of sexual assault. Support is available via Lifeline on 13 11 14, the Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467, and 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732), the national counselling line for sexual assault, family and domestic violence. This episode features a discussion with anti-poverty advocates Aeryn Brown, Melissa Fisher and Mel, all of whom have experienced navigating Australia's circuitous social security syste...
Jin, Jiyan, Azadi x Poetry of the Kurdish tradition
January 01, 2023 21:30 - 25.5 MBAs the year approaches a close we visit the ongoing protests for freedom in Iran. In honour of the protests under the slogan of Jin, Jiyan, Azadi which is Kurdish for woman, life, freedom, we visit the realm of Kurdish poetry, central to Kurdish culture, life and resistance. We're joined by Kurdish/Celtic writer and dancer Leila Lois who shares some poetry and insights in honour of the protests in Iran that stem from the Kurdish struggle. In November she wrote an article for the Overland Jou...
Disability, Self-Advocacy and Decision Making
December 18, 2022 21:30 - 12.8 MBToday’s show explores the importance of centring the agency and right to choose of people with disability. First up, you’ll hear part of a conversation about disability discrimination and self-advocacy between Lisa Brumtis and Heather Smith, from the 2022 International Women’s Day episode of Raising Our Voices on 3CR, a program produced and presented by people with disabilities. Later on, you’ll hear an interview with Catherine McAlpine, CEO of Inclusion Australia, talking about decision maki...
Fighting for climate justice with Youth Verdict
December 11, 2022 21:30 - 17.4 MBIn this episode, we're joined by two of the co-directors of Youth Verdict, a youth-led climate activist group that just defeated Clive Palmer’s planned Waratah Coal mine, to talk about their victory and the importance of centring First Nations cultural rights and human rights in climate justice work. Murrawah Johnson is a Wirdi woman, co-director and First Nations program lead at Youth Verdict. Monique Jeffs is a white settler based in Meanjin, and is one of Youth Verdict’s original founders....
Transgender Awareness Week
November 27, 2022 21:30 - 28.2 MBOn this episode of Women on the Line we cover Trans Awareness Week, which was held from the 13 - 20 November. We head to Narrm’s first Trans Pride March, to hear from speakers Anastacia Le Rose and Mama Merrin and her son Jay. We then head to Trans Day of Remembrance to hear from Key Change Trans and Gender Diverse Choir as well as Witt Gorrie. The speakers touch on topics affecting the transgender community such as high rates of incarceration of Aboriginal trans women and trans women of colo...
Against disappearance
November 13, 2022 21:30 - 12.8 MBAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners, please be advised that this program includes references to Indigenous people who have passed away. This show also covers themes that may be distressing to some listeners, including racial violence and domestic and family violence. Support is available 24/7 at:Lifeline on 13 11 141800RESPECT (1800 737 732)13 YARN (13 92 76) - a dedicated national crisis line for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people On this episode, we’re joined by Amy M...
National Day of Action to Close Don Dale and Abolish Youth Prisons
November 06, 2022 21:30 - 27.3 MBOn this episode, we cover the National Day of Action to Close Don Dale and Abolish Youth Prisons, which was held on the 22 October 2022. We hear from Sara Schwartz, who works at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, speak at the Fund communities, not prisons & police rally organsed by Homes no Prisons on Wurunderji and Boon Wurruong Country. Then head to Larrakia Country to hear from Josie Crawshaw at the Close Don Dale rally.
Fossil Fuel Free Arts NT
October 30, 2022 21:30 - 25.7 MBOn this episode of Women on the Line we chat with Anna Weekes, an organiser from the Fossil Fuel Free Arts Northern Territory Campaign. The Fossil Fuel Free Arts NT crew have been campaigning for the Darwin Arts Festival to break up their long-term partnership with fossil fuel corporation Santos. We discuss their recent wins, artwashing, as well the impact of Santos in the Northern Territory.
Abortion Rights: Local Context
October 23, 2022 21:30 - 19.1 MBEarlier this year the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade, the 1973 ruling which protected abortion rights on a national level, unleashing a wave of repressive measures against abortion rights in conservative US states and increasing public focus on this area.This episode is the second part of a brief look at abortion rights. For part one, we looked beyond the USA to the situation for abortion rights in Poland, speaking with a member of Szpila Collective, an anarcha-feminist anti-repressi...
None Of Us Are Free Until All Of Us Are Free
October 16, 2022 21:30 - 13.4 MBIn this week’s episode of Women on the Line, we’re joined by Anne-lise Ah-fat, who has been involved in coordinating and editing a recently-released collection of poems by community members on the inside called ‘None Of Us Are Free Until All Of Us Are Free’. This is the second edition of poems from the inside published by Incendium Radical Library and Press, and has been in the making for over a year. The collection features creative writing from a range of contributors including Stacey Stoke...
Bendigo St and the Case for Dwelling Justice
October 09, 2022 21:30 - 34.7 MBToday we discuss the intersections of dwelling justice, incarceration, private land and the coloniality of housing.We hear an excerpt of Yuin woman and architectural design activist Linda Kennedy speaking at the Dwelling Justice Forum held in August 2022. You can listen to her full speech and others here.We then turn to a conversation about the Bendigo St documentary which chronicles a campaign to occupy a street of government-owned empty houses that were planned for demolition for the failed...
Abortion rights and repression in Poland
September 25, 2022 22:30 - 18.3 MBEarlier this year the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade, the 1973 ruling which protected abortion rights across the US, unleashing a wave of repressive measures against abortion rights in conservative American states and increasing public and political focus on this area.This week on the program, we look beyond the USA to the situation for abortion rights in Poland.We speak with Alex from Szpila Collective, an anarcha-feminist anti-repression collective based in Warsaw, working to suppo...
Breaking the silence on sexual harassment at work
September 18, 2022 22:30 - 12.8 MBContent warning: this is a sensitive area of discussion and may be distressing for some listeners. Listeners can call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or 1800RESPECT 24/7. Listeners in the music industry or arts can also call Support Act’s wellbeing helpline 24/7 on 1800 959 500. Today’s show focuses on sexual harassment in the workplace, exploring the need for cultural change both within industries and as a society and looking at some of the legal mechanisms silencing people who have experienced these h...
Archiving the feminist struggle in Algeria
September 11, 2022 22:30 - 27.3 MBIn this episode, we discuss the political importance of archiving the feminist struggle in Algeria. Launched in 2019, Archives des luttes des femmes en Algérie is a collective that provides digital and open access to documents from and by Algerian feminist activists, collectives, and associations since the North African country gained independence in 1962.Joining us to discuss the importance of archives for activism in Algeria, is researcher and activist Saadia Gacem, who, along with Awel Hao...
Odissi dance with the Sohamasmi Centre for Performing Arts
September 04, 2022 22:30 - 25.7 MBOn this week’s episode of Women on the Line we chat with Odissi dancers Divya Nair, Shreya Rath, Vaishnavi Srinivasan and Pranavi Annadurai from the Sohamasmi Centre for Performing Arts, all senior dance disciples of Odissi dancer and teacher Smt. Monica Singh Sangwan. Upcoming solo and duet performances are happening Saturday 17 and 24 September at Dancehouse and 1 October at Fairfield Amphitheatre, accompanied by a live Odissi music ensemble featuring Vaishnavi Srinivasan (Vocals), Senthur...
Holding power to account
August 28, 2022 22:30 - 25.8 MBThis week you’ll hear from a group of diverse young women challenging structures and systems and really shaking things up.We start the show with Dana Alshaer, a proud Palestinian who’ll educate us on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, also known as BDS. She also explains why some people are reluctant to support this movement.And later in the show, we’ll be joined by Danya, Razaz and Ladan, a trio whose teacher training bill passed in the Youth Parliament!
Gender and the AFL
August 07, 2022 22:30 - 12.8 MBIn today's show, we are joined by Marnie Vinall and Dr Kasey Symons to unpack some important issues around gender dynamics in sports reporting and commentary, and to reflect on the growth of the AFLW with a focus on the AFLW fandom. Marnie is a sports reporter at The Age based in Naarm/Melbourne. Kasey is an academic and writer also based in Naarm, and is a Research Fellow in the Sport Innovation Research Group at Swinburne University as well as a co-founder of the women in sport collective S...
Emu Sky with Zena Cumpston
July 24, 2022 23:00 - 25.7 MBOn this week’s episode of Women on the Line we chat with Zena Cumpston, a Barkandji woman who has curated the exhibition ‘Emu Sky’ currently being shown at Melbourne University. The exhibition brings together numerous Aboriginal artists and knowledge keepers to explore Aboriginal perspectives related to science, innovation, plant use, land management and agricultural practices. Emu Sky is currently being exhibited, with free entry, at the Old Quad building at Melbourne University from now unt...
Media Justice and abortion care in Australia
July 17, 2022 22:30 - 25.8 MBJournalist and activist Nicola Joseph discusses the differences between tokenism and media justice, and in the second half of the show researcher Shelly Makleff discusses Abortion care in Australia. We also look at what the end of Roe V Wade means for women and birthing people.To learn more about Shelly's study click here.
Digital rights under surveillance capitalism
July 03, 2022 22:30 - 16.5 MBOn this week's episode, we're joined by Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker and Samantha Floreani to tackle some big questions about digital rights, predatory tech companies and regulation. Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker is a Nyungar technologist and digital rights activist who serves on the board of Electronic Frontiers Australia. Their work explores the intersection of activism, science-fiction, and technology in imagining radical futures and ushering them into existence.Samantha Floreani is a digital rights ...
Karrinjarla Muwajarri - Ceasefire
June 26, 2022 22:30 - 12.7 MBThis week’s episode covers the Yuendumu community-led campaign Karrinjarla Muwajarri - no police guns in remote Aboriginal communities. The campaign emerged in the wake of the 2022 Northern Territory budget announcement re-affirming a government commitment to resourcing police instead of vital community services, and after the acquittal of an NT police officer over the 2019 death of Warlpiri teenager Kumanjayi Walker. The campaign also addresses the need to restore self-determination and self...
Capitalist undemocracy in France
June 19, 2022 22:30 - 13.7 MBIn April, France saw the far-right party leader receive a large portion of the vote in the presidential election albeit with the lowest voter turnout since 1969. This week we discuss French politics ahead of the second round of legislative elections which chooses representatives to parliament on June 19.To discuss these issues within a broader context of global capitalism we’re joined by Dr Rachel Bloul, who is a social scientist formerly from the ANU. Her fields of expertise are immigration ...
Indigenous perspectives in classrooms
June 12, 2022 22:30 - 25.4 MBWe all agree everyone deserves access to good quality education. Unfortunately – not everyone is given the same opportunities. In Australia, the legacy of racist policies has meant that Aboriginal students continue to face structural barriers that impact their education.I reached out to Aunty Gail Kunwarra Dawson to find out what makes a real difference to the lives of Aboriginal students. Aunty Gail is a Bunwurrang Elder and a school education researcher.
Radiothon 2022 Live Show!
June 12, 2022 22:30 - 13.5 MBThanks for tuning in to Women on the Line's 2022 live Radiothon special!Iris, Ayan and Priya counted down the top 10 most-downloaded episodes of Women on the Line over the past year, and played you some highlights from these shows. We also caught up with Emma and Scheherazade via phone, and got a very special call from former WOTL producer Hope. Keep those donations coming for 3CR's 2022 Radiothon so we can continue to keep community strong through the power of independent media for another y...
Education Trafficking & Palestine solidarity
June 05, 2022 22:30 - 24.9 MBOne aspect of Australia's draconian border regime that has grown in recent decades is the education sector, which has entrapped many International students in a system of privatised exploitation and precarity. We hear from Carol from the Support Network for International Students (SNIS) about the network and the concept of education trafficking. Later in the program, we turn to student resistance in solidarity with Palestine at the University of Melbourne. There the student union has backflip...
The intersection of disability and migration
May 29, 2022 22:30 - 25.8 MBThis week Áine Kelly-Costello chats to us about disability and migration and how the two intersect. Áine discusses the podcast Disability Crosses Borders and shares their own migration experience. Áine also looks at the Acceptable Standard of Health, a visa requirement they've described as "lengthy, expensive, stressful and degrading."Support #EndASHNow
Fighting for self-determination in West Papua
May 22, 2022 22:30 - 12.7 MBThis week's show covers updates in the struggle for self-determination of West Papuans, including limitations of the Special Autonomy Law which was renewed in 2021, the Indonesian government’s push to break up the provinces of West Papua and Papua to create 5 smaller administrative regions, and issues related to freedom of expression, assembly and communication. We hear from Esther Haluk, a member of Garda Papua, a democratic movement of West Papuan people, as well as a lecturer at Walter Pos...
Freedom rallies, young people and the far-right
May 22, 2022 21:30 - 13.7 MBIn the lead up to the federal election, we’ve seen a host of minor far-right political parties spin, propagate, and actively spread disinformation, seemingly for political gain. All the while, the so-called 'freedom' rallies continue to protest outside political institutions. What is it motivating people to show up to these rallies or join these conspiracy-laden movements more broadly? To delve more deeply into this topic we hear Professor Pam Nilan speak at the launch of her latest book titl...
Consumption, Wellness, and the Far-Right
May 08, 2022 22:30 - 25.8 MBWhen you think of wellness influencers, what comes to mind? Sun? Yoga? Neo-Nazis!!? Today we hear from academic Tresa LeClerc, whose essay 'Consumption, Wellness, and the Far-Right' explores what makes the wellness industry a target of white nationalist ideas.Later in the program, we'll listen to an interview Diaspora Blues did with Dr Ruth DeSouza about her life-saving podcast ‘Birthing and Justice’.
Stop the Expansion of the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre
April 24, 2022 22:30 - 13.7 MBThe Victorian Government is proposing to significantly expand the capacity of the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre or DPFC, a women's prison on the western edge of Narrm, Melbourne. Drawing on the voices of women with lived experience of prison and evidence based practice, the Homes Not Prisons campaign is calling on the State Government to use the money allocated for expanding the prison to build public housing instead. This week on the program we bring you selections from Stop the Expansion of th...
Housing is a human right
April 17, 2022 22:30 - 12.8 MBAustralia is in the midst of a housing crisis, and yet the primary focus of politicians is on private home ownership rather than protecting the most vulnerable. Chloé Cooper, a member of Save Public Housing Collective with lived experience of homelessness, joins us to share her analysis of the state of homelessness support services in Victoria, and how we might achieve meaningful change on housing insecurity in Australia. Later in the show, we hear from Professor Libby Porter, a researcher an...
Borderless affirmations and Save Al-Aqsa
March 27, 2022 10:30 - 25.8 MBThis week we hear from transgender Tamil woman Amity Mara on the Borderless Affirmations Mutual Aid group, which supports trans migrants (interview by Priya Kunjan, 3CR Thursday Breakfast). Later in the program, we hear from an April rally in solidarity with Palestine in Melbourne, as Israel once again attacks Al Aqsa mosque in Ramadan.
Fight for Public Health & Workplace Safety
March 27, 2022 10:30 - 22.2 MBThe Covid-19 pandemic has intensified existing systemic inequalities. We hear from a rally in Melbourne, Fighting for public health and workplace safety. We hear from rally co-chairs, Sarah Hathaway and Jiselle Hanna, unionist and Greens candidate Celeste Liddle, retail worker and unionist Maudie Osborne, and public health worker and unionist Nita Okoko.
Stand for Uyghurs
March 27, 2022 10:30 - 22.7 MBThis week we focus on the struggle of Uyghur people in occupied East Turkestan. The Chinese state has been intensifying genocide of Uyghurs in the last decade. We hear from Uyghur community member Fazilet, and audio from a recent Uyghur and Muslim lead Stand for Uyghurs rally in Melbourne with Idil Ali (MC), and speeches by Mai and Fazilet.
Poland-Belarus-Ukraine border crisis
March 20, 2022 21:30 - 27.3 MBThis week on the program we focus on the situation for people fleeing from war on the Polish border with Belarus and Ukraine.More than 1.8 million people escaping war in Ukraine have arrived in Poland since February 24, but not everyone has received the same welcome to the European Union.On the Polish-Belarussian border, people seeking safety in the EU from war in the Middle East continue to be pushed back to Belarus, despite what in some instances can be many dangerous attempts to cross.Our ...
Mitigating and adapting to climate change
March 13, 2022 21:30 - 12.8 MBToday's show features two women working towards climate justice in so-called Australia: Tishiko King, Campaign Director at Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network, and Emma Bacon, Executive Director of the Sweltering Cities project. Tishiko, a proud Torres Strait Islander woman with connections to Masig and Badu Islands, speaks about climate vulnerability and fighting for climate justice in Zenadth Kes/the Torres Strait Islands. Emma discusses the effects of rising temperatures on urban heat s...
Resisting education limbo in Indonesia
March 06, 2022 21:30 - 27.3 MBIn a collaborative show with Sudanese refugee and freelance journalist Elina Mark, we delve into education issues for refugee communities stuck in limbo in Indonesia as a result of Australia's border policies.We feature two interviews.Firstly, the mother of four children, Shereen speaks about barriers for her kids to access education in Indonesia.Afterwards, co-founder of the refugee-run Education4all learning centre, Faiza Ahmed Omer Faloul speaks about how they fill a void and help the broa...
inTouch and Pacific farmworkers
February 27, 2022 21:30 - 26.5 MBOn this week’s program, we’re analyzing two stories making national news. Our first story looks at what happens when police view migrant and refugee women as the main aggressors in family violence calls, and our second interview focuses on the exploitation of Pacific farmworkers. Helping us tell these stories is the CEO of inTouch Michal Morris and Dr Victoria Stead from Deakin University.Articles/reports THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF MIS-IDENTIFICATIONAustralia needs better conditions, not ...
Disability Justice & Covid summer crisis
February 20, 2022 21:30 - 23.4 MBThis week we hear from queer, Maori-Polish writer, abolitionist and organiser, Julia Rose Bak, about the concept of disability justice (First aired on Radio A and A, also see Disability Justice network mutual aid fundraiser). The summer of 2021-22 has seen a new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic with the Omicron variant, mass illness and death in an environment of woeful state responses and complacency. In the second half of the program, Polly, a queer academic and consultancy researcher, speaks...
Stop the Narrabri Gas Project and #KillTheBill analysis of the Religious Discrimination Act
February 13, 2022 21:30 - 13.4 MBThis week on the program we cover two important topics which have seen some significant development in the last week. First, we speak with two Gomeroi yinarr, Aunty Polly Cutmore and Traditional Custodian Karra Kinchela, about the fight to stop Santos’ Narrabri Gas Project, near Moree in North West NSW. 850 gas wells are proposed for the area, and court hearings are underway.Visit the Moree Ecological Holistic Information Centre page And find more information about the Pillaga Ultra - A Run t...
When socialists from Turkey came to Naarm
February 06, 2022 21:30 - 13.6 MBIn today's episode, we delve into a thriving leftist movement in Narrm (Melbourne) built by migrants from Turkey in the 1970s and 80s. International human rights lawyer, researcher and activist, Eda Seyhan joins us to discuss her article published in Jacobin on how this movement organized migrant workers, supported political refugees, influenced unions, and contributed to the anti-imperialist struggle both in Turkey and internationally.Eda conducted this research as part of her visiting fello...
Sister Girl, 24 Years On
January 30, 2022 21:30 - 13.6 MBIn this show, Murri historian and activist Dr Jackie Huggins speaks about the recently-published updated edition of 'Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation', which is out now through the University of Queensland Press. She reflects on the process of writing and on her prolific career, touching on the strength of Aboriginal women, race relations in feminism, Indigenous leadership, and honouring her parents through biography.Dr Jackie Huggins AM FAHA is a member of th...