Movement radio with a long memory.
Perth Indymedia treats politics as something fought over in streets, courts, rental markets, and foreign policy. Its episodes move between Perth protest timelines, housing justice, Palestine solidarity, international law, and long-form left analysis of U.S. power.
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Perth Indymedia is activist community-radio journalism from Western Australia with a strong left political spine. It treats the news as lived conflict, not detached theatre. Recent episodes move from Boorloo protest sites to Gaza-related international law, from Australian public housing to U.S. immigration enforcement, and from Western Australian protest legislation to the history of U.S. and British intervention in Iran. The show’s register is patient and argumentative. It gives guests room to explain institutions, timelines, and political stakes in detail, then keeps pressing on what power is doing and who is exposed to it. A report on the Invasion Day bombing at Forest Place reconstructs the evacuation through attendee accounts, police presence, marshal numbers, and a minute-by-minute timeline. The result is not a polished news package; it is closer to counter-reporting from inside a movement. Housing coverage follows the same instinct. In conversations with RAHU members William and Mia, renters’ organizing is tied to queer protests, Palestine actions, and the wider crisis of secure housing in WA. With Tone Wheeler, the housing question becomes economic and historical, challenging the familiar idea that Australia simply lacks enough dwellings. The international episodes are just as direct. Rawan Arraf explains the Australian Centre for International Justice’s work around war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, sanctions referrals, and legal action connected to Australian exports to Israel. Troy Turner describes mutual aid, communication networks, and long-term organizing under intensified ICE operations. Alex Whisson’s political analysis reaches for long arcs: Iran since 1953, oil, British and U.S. interests, Trump’s electoral numbers, liberal delusion, and media failure. Perth Indymedia is demanding listening. It is best for people who want movement-facing journalism, anti-capitalist analysis, and detailed accounts of how state power, policing, housing, borders, and war meet in everyday life.
Made for: For listeners who want explicitly left, activist-oriented coverage of protest, housing, policing, international law, and imperial power. It suits people comfortable with dense political analysis and ground-level organizing detail.
What sets it apart: Perth Indymedia combines local Western Australian movement reporting with global historical and legal context. It is less interested in neutral punditry than in tracing how institutions, police, landlords, states, and campaigners collide.
Radical activist citizen journalism. A weekly radio programme on RTRFM (92.1FM), a community radio station based in Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. We bring an independent perspective to the analysis of news and issues and provide a forum for activists, campaigners, academics, advocates and workers denied a voice by the mainstream media. Covering indigenous issues, post-capitalist/anti-capitalist analysis, refugee rights, antifa and all the important environmental, economic and social justice issues of the day. Don’t hate the media, become the media!! - http://perthindymedia.net/
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded Maylands council discussion on wetlands, outreach services, and the limits of local government.
Maylands comes through as a live local-government issue, not just a setting. Councillor Nat Latter outlines what council can do, where its powers stop, and how an activist background can shape the work once it moves inside the chamber.
Moral questions with consequences for minds, machines, and power.
WSJ reporters unpack the Epstein files, surrogacy industry abuses, and true-crime court battles.
Dan Carlin's solo essays connecting executive power, historical collapse, and American democracy.
Jenny Boyd interviews William and Mia from Western Australia’s Renters and Housing Union about a planned protest outside the State Labor Conference.
Federico Fuentes discusses the political and economic context behind Javier Milei's election as president of Argentina.
Francis Russel from the National Tertiary Education Union details the ongoing industrial dispute at Curtin University in Western Australia.
Perth Indymedia interviews Nat Latter, a recently elected City of Bayswater councillor for Maylands.
An editorial review of the history of US-Iran tensions leading up to a joint American-Israeli attack on Iran, starting with the 1953 CIA-backed coup.
Greens MP Sophie Mcneil criticizes proposed WA protest laws giving police power to reject protests promoting hate, citing concerns over crackdown on Gaza protests and adoption of Segal's anti-Semitism definition.
Rawan Arraf discusses the Australian Centre for International Justice's work on international crimes and the case against Isaac Herzog.
This episode investigates the January 26th Invasion Day rally in Perth, where an attempted bombing occurred, and contrasts police accounts of the evacuation with eyewitness reports from attendees.
Troy Turner discusses the challenges and grassroots responses to ICE operations in cities like Minneapolis and Portland.
Perth Indymedia reports from the 2025 Perth Pride Parade, where Queer Liberation Bulu’s roughly 50-person float marched for Palestine.
Members of RAHU WA discuss their grassroots union for renters and their upcoming protest at the State Labor Conference.
The host analyzes Trump's 2024 victory by the numbers, critiques liberal and media delusion, and discusses implications for the Democratic Party.
Architect Tone Wheeler explains that Australia's housing crisis is a distribution problem, not a supply shortage, as there are more dwellings than households.
Tom Chodor discusses his book on Australia's flawed pandemic response and the collective trauma it caused.