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Thursday Breakfast makes Melbourne and Victorian public life legible through community-radio interviews tied to rights, services, and local institutions.
Thursday Breakfast is a Melbourne community-radio current-affairs show in News & Politics, with a clear interest in what policy does once it reaches schools, housing blocks, clinics, prisons, public land, and community services.
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Episodes
- 1
Return to the Birrarung, DID and Autism, Welfare Not War, First Nations Led Truth Telling Commission, Green Colonialism in Climate Activism
- 2
Australia’s Nuclear Ties, Tempi Train Crash Anniversary, Regenerative Farming and Climate Crisis, Palantir Embedded in Department of Defence
- 3
Energy Crisis in Cuba, Australian SIGINT and War on Iran, Operation Pulse Extended, Ending Strip Searches in Australian Prisons, Don’t Fly Thai Campaign
- 4
Slavery in Ansell’s Supply Chain, AI Adoption in NDIS Plan Reviews, Naarm Rally Against Herzog, Take Back the Track Day 2026
- 5
'compost:compose' Performance and Public Program, 'Through Our Eyes' Photography Exhibition, Rent Tech and Tenant Data Security Risks, Planned Demolition of Older Persons’ Public Housing Towers
- 6
Gary Foley at Naarm Invasion Day, Julie Saylor Briggs at Djilang Invasion Day, Social Impacts of Tobacco Licensing Laws, Police Use of Generative AI, Israel Recognises Somaliland
- 7
Policing of Invasion Day, Racialised Impact of Designated Areas, Labor’s Hate Speech Laws, Paul Silva on Protest Policing and Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- 8
Highlights from 2025: Solidarity & Resistance
- 9
Highlights from 2025: Housing Justice
- 10
Highlights from 2025: Art, Music, Film & Design
- 11
Highlights from 2025: Public Health
- 12
The Impacts of Criminalising Young People, Lilie James’ Coronial Inquest, Injured Workers’ Support Team, Rave 4 the Towers, Ombudsman Criticises Mutual Obligations Remediation
- 13
Recognising Young Peoples’ Chronic Pain, Fundraising for Elijah’s Independence and Freedom, History of the Whitlam Dismissal, Health Workers Union Strike, Questioning the National AI Plan
- 14
Disability Justice for Collective Liberation, Public Housing for Older Renters, Protesting ‘Infected Mushroom’, Save Cohealth Campaign Updates, From Pledges to Action at COP30
- 15
Rally for Sudan, Mparntwe for Falastin Updates, Footscray Belongs To Everyone, PSEUDA on ‘This Is All’, Racial Discrimination Challenge Against Bail Checks
- 16
Treaty Talk on Blak’n’Deadly, Save cohealth Rally, Reflections From a Gazan Doctor, Touch Sensitive on ‘In Paradise’, Mutual Aid for Sudan
- 17
Proposed Changes to SCHADS Award, City of Melbourne’s Anti-Homeless Program, Voter Preferences and Housing Crisis, Save cohealth Emergency Town Hall, Ongoing Raids Target Asian Migrant Sex Workers
- 18
TheySwarm Open Day, Declassified Australia Part 2, Homeless Persons Union Speak-Out, Tony Birch on Public Housing, cohealth Closure and Fight Back
- 19
3CR Exclusive: Inside Australia's Secret F-35 Parts Pipeline to Israel, Dr Sabawi Palestine Rally Speech, Pine Gap Direct Action Legal Defense, Eugenia Lim on 'Metabolism' Film & Gaza Fundraiser
- 20
Pukpuk Treaty and Pacific Islands Forum, Afghan Refugee Women's Football on the Global Stage, Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty Campaign, Akshay Gouri on 'Sister Mine' and Casteism
- 21
Crisis Housing Reform Part 1, 'Our Stories, Our Flats' Episode 2, Chelsea Watego on Black Thoughts Matter, Building Migrant and Indigenous Worker Power
- 22
Fighting 'Renovictions' in NSW, 'Our Stories, Our Flats' Episode 1, Chile Coup Anniversary and Film Screening, Climate Priorities at Pacific Islands Forum
- 23
Camp Sovereignty Attack and Racist Laws, Resolving Unfair Centrelink Debt Systems, Whatsdoinmedia Journalism & Far-Right Extremism, Afghan Women's Football Team
- 24
International Overdose Awareness Day 2025 & Vic Pill Testing Service Launch!
- 25
Footscray Safety Forum, 'Stranger, Brother' MIFF Short Film, Uyghur Forced Labour & Legal Action Filed Against Kmart, Supporting Victims of Sexual Assault at Trial, End to Unfair Tax Concessions
- 26
Vic Youth Homelessness Snapshot 2025, Stop the Public Housing Demo Direct Action, Unlawful Welfare Debt Recalculations, Blaktasia: The First Ever Aboriginal Mobile Game
- 27
Toll 'Stop Driving Genocide' Campaign Heats Up, Ombudsman Investigates Unlawful Centrelink Cancellations, Colonial Legacies of Conspiracy Theories, Footscray Community Response, Trans Inclusion in Local Football
- 28
Kanaky Rising Part 2, Homeless in Hotels Panel, Convergence on Canberra, Block the City for Gaza, ICJ Rules on Climate Action Obligations
- 29
Toll - Stop Driving Genocide!, Kanaky Rising Part 1, End Offshore Detention, Resisting the ‘Melbourne Model’ in Maribyrnong
- 30
Freedom on the Line, Bonaparte Project’s Greenwashing, No Weapons for Genocide, Antisemitism Envoy Concerns
- 31
NAIDOC Week 2025 - Justice for Kumanjayi White, Beyond the Bars Middleton, Kimberely Benjamin on Blak Filmaking & 'Our Medicine', Senator Thorpe on Genocide in 'australia' & Palestine
- 32
Push for GPs to Diagnose & Manage ADHD, Shiralee Hood Marks 19 Years of Beyond the Bars, Climate Disasters Demand Urgent National Leadership, Disability Sector Warns of Harm from NDIS Pricing Cuts.
- 33
Australia’s Support for Illegal Military Aggression, Recapping the People Against Poverty Summit, Elbit Out Of Victoria Says No! To a Future Soaked in Blood, Outcome and Implications of Lattouf v ABC
- 34
VIC Mental Healthcare Workers Strike, Myall Creek Memorial Site 25th Anniversary, Housing & Elder Abuse Report, Sydney Rd Accessible Tramstops Rally
- 35
Radiothon 2025 on Thursday Breakfast
- 36
Masafer Yatta Updates, Launch of VIC Drug Testing Facility, Horrific Lockdowns at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Yoorrook Walk for Truth
- 37
Call for SA Human Rights Act, Public School Funding Inequity, Jalees Hyder on Kashmir pt. 3, 'No-Grounds Evictions' & First Nations Tenants
- 38
Masafer Yatta Solidarity Work, Budget Implications for Aboriginal Legal Sector, Jalees Hyder on Kashmir pt. 2, Nakba Day Rally
- 39
Nakba Day 2025 - Solidarity, Resistance and Steadfastness in Palestine, Kashmir and ‘australia’
- 40
Dispatch from Masafer Yatta, Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla Vessel, CPSU Victoria’s ‘A Voice for Members’, Victorian Native Forest Regeneration, Social Security Access for 4R Women
- 41
Palestinian Workers’ Struggle, F*** Work, Workers’ Rights in the Care Sector, International Labour Solidarity for Mask Off Maersk
- 42
Dr Mohammad Mustafa on Gaza Medical Aid, Settler Colonialism and Archaeology in Palestine, Speeches from Rally for Abdifatah Ahmed, Trans Liberation Counter-Protest, Koorie Youth Summit 2025
- 43
Witt Gorrie at Trans Day of Action 2025, The Nightmare Sequence, Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection, Renters’ Federal Election Priorities
- 44
Mai Saif on Australia’s Double Standards, The Pavilion School Part 2, We Outside Exhibition, Selective Attention and Cyclist Safety
- 45
Themme Fatale at Defend Dissent Coalition Rally, Future Reset: Diaspora Dreaming, River Nile School, ‘Harmony Day’ and Anti-Racism
- 46
5th Anniversary of COVID-19 Supplement, Vigil for Christchurch, Snap Action for Poccum's Law, Unpacking Vaping Regulations
- 47
Dissociative Identity Disorder Awareness Day, 'The Last Sky' Documentary, Demilitarise Education Treaty Part 2, High-Risk Opioid Prescribing for Vic Workers.
- 48
Accessing the DSP, Demilitarise Education Treaty Part 1, Palliative Care Resourcing and Access, Equitable Clean Energy Transition
- 49
Defend Dissent Coalition, Amin Abbas at Palestine Rally, Slingshot Books on ‘Tabkha’, PALM Scheme Worker Exploitation, QLD Trans Youth Healthcare Access
- 50
Tamala Shelton Spoken Word, Language Course with Yousef Alreemawi, Disrupt Land Forces MALs Report, 2025 Invasion Day speeches
- 51
Beyond Bricks and Bars Fundraiser, Migrant Workers Fair Entitlements Guarantee, Public Housing Class Action Update, Solidarity with Bangladesh Garment Industry
A community radio breakfast show discussing alternative news and current affairs with light-hearted banter.
- 52
Highlights from 2024: First Nations Stories & Justice
- 53
Highlights from 2024: Harm Reduction
- 54
Highlights from 2024: Disability Justice
- 55
Highlights from 2024: Solidarity & Resistance
- 56
Highlights from 2024: Racialised Policing and State Violence
- 57
Belgium’s Colonial Crimes Part 2, Queensland’s Carceral Crackdown on Kids, Contextualising Diagnoses of Mental Illness, Fundraising for Sudan
- 58
Belgium’s Colonial Crimes Part 1, Femicide in Australia, ‘The Left’s Problem with Palestine’ Part 2, Elijah Kose’s ‘Hands’ with Grace Dlabik and Dan Elborne
- 59
‘The Left’s Problem with Palestine’ Part 1, Trans Women’s Experiences of Incarceration, Fighting Energy Poverty in Australia, Fundraiser for Sisters Inside, Sudan and Palestine
- 60
Fighting for Better Buses in the West, Inquiry into Government’s Refugee Crackdown, Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Closing the Gap, Workplace Sexual Harassment of Migrant and Refugee Women
- 61
Prison to Deportation Pipeline Report; Creative Resistance to Cultural Harms, Legal Support for Aboriginal Young People, 3CR's 'Kill Your Lawn & Kick Your Fence'
- 62
Global Observatory on Short-Term Rentals, Australia’s Criminalisation of Asylum Seekers, Art for Social Change with Niki Koutouzi, Drug Checking and VIC Overdose Updates
- 63
Bougainville Updates, State of the Climate 2024 Report, Labour Rights on Sleepover Shifts, Fighting Woolworths' Framework
- 64
Uncle Robbie Thorpe at Palestine Rally, Michelle Fahy on the NACC, Fighting Murray Floodplain Engineering, Fundraiser for RISE and Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity
- 65
Pacific Climate Justice at CHOGM 2024, Ayotzinapa Part 2, Dealing with Space Debris, Flemington Public Housing Rally
- 66
Ayotzinapa Part 1, Anti-Poverty Community Organising, 2023 Victorian Overdose Deaths, International Student Cap Impacts for RTOs
- 67
Evelyn Araluen at Vigil for Gaza, Disability Wage Theft Part 2, VicPol Racial Profiling Data, NSW Police Crackdown on Protest
- 68
Military Uses of AI Part 2, Jordana Silverstein on ‘Being Stateless’, Disability Wage Theft Part 1, Fighting Fracking in the NT
- 69
Vanuatu’s Fight for Climate Justice, Military Uses of AI Part 1, Cook Islanders Rally Against Deep Sea Mining, Australia’s Public Health Spending Shortfall
- 70
Intergenerational Hibakusha Reflections, Close Unit 18 Campaign, ICJ Decisions on Palestine, Developing Decolonial Solidarity
- 71
Uncle Wayne 'Coco' Wharton FPM Rally, Poverty is a Policy Choice: World Suicide Prevention Day, Bangladesh Now & Beyond, Live from Disrupt Land Forces, Anti-Palestinian Racism in Mainstream Media.
- 72
Pacific Islands Climate & Liberation Struggle, Save Public Housing Collective, Dr Chris Gill Part 2, International Overdose Awareness Day 2024.
- 73
WA Aboriginal Public Housing Class Action, Attack on the CFMEU, Dr Chris Gill Part 1, FOE Nuclear Free Art Auction, A30 for West Papua
- 74
Refugee Visa Encampment Rally, Mutual Aid for the Housing Crisis with RAHU, S.L.O. Rally - Labor Hates Crips, Measuring Housing Stress in Australia
- 75
Australia’s Global Fossil Fuel Carbon Footprint, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Part 3, Protests and Repression in Kenya, VicForests’ Afterlife and Federal EPA Push, Rally for Trans Liberation
- 76
Global Plastic Deflecting Tactics, State Library Victoria Censorship, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Part 2, Mass Protests in Bangladesh, RAHU Homelessness Week.
- 77
Kanaky Libre Solidarity Rally, Challenging Colonial Copaganda, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Part 1, Justice for Sonya Massey Oakland
- 78
Electromold Factory Community Picket, Trauma Therapy in Gaza, Permanent Visas Now, Asian Migrant Sex Workers against Project Inglenook.
- 79
Disability & Sexual Health Access, Mililma May for Nightcliff NT Election, 'These Arms Hold' Exhibition, Great Barrier Reef Extreme Sea Temperatures.
- 80
International League For Peoples Struggles, Barwon Prison Beyond the Bars, Disability Advocacy Funding Cuts, Potent Synthetic Opioids Plan, Liss Fenwick's ' The colony cares for everyone'
- 81
Youth 'Justice' Bill 2024, Victorian Minimum Rental Standards, Monash Solidarity Encampment, Yoorrook's Public Hearings, Looking Back at Beyond the Bars
- 82
Adolf Mora at Disrupt Land Forces Meeting, AW Bell Community Picket, Australia’s Place in the Military AI Race, Colonial Patriarchy and Femicide in Australia
- 83
Lockheed Martin's F-35 global supply chain in Aus, Tasnim Sammak, Climate Action Show replay, Yousef Alreemawi at 76 Years of Nakba & The False Idol of Zionism
- 84
2024 Radiothon Special with Maiy Azize, Emma Bacon, Jordana Silverstein and Scott Drummond.
- 85
One Small Step For the Government and One Big Step Closer to Ending Uranium Prospects at Jabiluka
- 86
Minimum Rental Standards for Healthy Homes, Assessing Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes, NDIS Access in Custody, NZ Government Attack on Māori Wards
- 87
Formerly Incarcerated Voices on Sexual Violence, Redistribution Week Campaign, Extended Operations at Eraring, Treaty Before Sports Kanaky Delegation
- 88
Yung Prodigy Org, People’s Commission into the Housing Crisis, Uni Encampments and Anti-Palestine Racism Register, Scrutinising Hancock’s Ecuador Operations
- 89
Kelly Flanagan at IWD 2026, Go Watch Demi Adejuyigbe at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Housing Supply/Demand and Tax Reform, Justice for Josh: 10 Years On
Hidden gem - 90
Trans Life in Britain, Community Care and Disability Justice, Administrative Challenges of Incarceration, Victoria’s Opioid Pharmacotherapy Gap
Hidden gem - 91
Victorian Teachers’ Strike, Building Catalyst’s New Space, US Travel Alert for Trans and Gender Diverse People, Trans Day of Vengeance Rally, 3CR’s 2026 TDOA Broadcast
Hidden gem - 92
The Pavilion School Part 1, The Economic Case for Community Land Trusts, Pleasure and Consent for Women and Gender Diverse People with Disabilities, Racism Out of Politics Campaign
A morning current affairs show on community radio discussing media analysis and alternative perspectives.
- 93
Doin Time's Remembering TJ Hickey, AOD and Harm Reduction with Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman, HRLC Housing Report
This episode of Thursday Breakfast features a replay of a memorial show marking 21 years since the death in custody of T.J.
- 94
Vic Pol fail duty of care to Aboriginal people in custody, RACGP on ADHD assessment and treatment reforms, Victoria's windfall gains tax, "Browne vs Assistant Commissioner of Police" case win, data centre fast-tracking
A current affairs show covering alternative news and analysis, with a segment on the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service's critique of tough-on-crime policies.
- 95
Land Back for Stolen Generations, Merchants of Death Tribunal Verdict, Border Policing and Migrant Sex Workers, Trans Youth Healthcare Review
A current affairs show discussing heavy topics like Stolen Generations, police and border violence, and transphobia within a colonial context.
- 96
AFL Grand Final Day and Domestic Violence, ‘Our Stories, Our Flats’ Episode 3, ‘Pictures of You’ with Tony Birch, Crisis Housing Reform Part 2
A community radio breakfast show discussing alternative news and current affairs, including a segment on a failed rapture prediction.
- 97
DPFC Lockdowns on Beyond the Bars, Victoria Police’s Racial Profiling Practices Revealed, An Evening with FAMILI, Drug Checking During Festival Season
A morning current affairs show on community radio featuring alternative news analysis and light-hearted banter.
- 98
Organising for Food Sovereignty with MST, ‘Our Stories, Our Flats’ Episode 4, File Explorer on Phantasy Break, Risks of Generative AI in Court
A morning news and talk show on community radio covering local current events, media analysis, and everyday topics like daylight saving time and seasonal allergies.
- 99
Chris Sidoti on Herzog Visit, Victoria Dismantles Key Environmental Protections, The Toxic Legacy of Genocide, Palliative Care Placement Poverty, ABC Staff Fight for Fair Work
Thursday Breakfast on 3CR covers five segments on current affairs.
- 100
S.L.O Action Disability Day replay, LGBTQI+SB holiday mental health with Qlife, BAN public housing campaign, police ‘designated areas’ in Victoria, Fun Run 4 Mutual Aid Fundraiser.
Thursday Breakfast on 3CR presents a final live show for 2025, featuring curated segments on intersectional social issues.