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Right Now Radio is Australia’s only dedicated human rights radio show. We broadcast live every Thursday at 6pm on Melbourne community radio station 3CR 855AM, and the show is streamed live online.
Each week a diverse team of presenters bring you dynamic and engaging discussion and debate focusing on current human rights issues as well as news, event info and interviews with people on the ground in human rights. Podcasts of the show are available for download one week after broadcast. See below for summaries and links. You can also subscribe to the podcasts via iTunes.
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Presenters: Rachel Ball, Anna Dorevitch, Ben Schokman, Evelyn Tadros, Elina Spilia, Emily Forbes, Felicity James, Keelia Fitzpatrick, Matthew Albert.
The human rights news segments are prepared by Erica Weatherlake.
In the studio at 3CR
Thanks to 3CR and the Programming sub-committee for making the podcasts available.
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Anna Dorevitch speaks to May Maloney and Fiona McAlpine, founding members of the Young Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (YWILPF Australia) about the Government’s National Action Plan on Women Peace & Security.
Download the podcast here. (12MB)
On this show of Right Now Radio we celebrated the 101st International Women’s Day by reviewing the last year and what it has meant for women’s rights in Australia and around the world: from Slutwalks to skype scandals, Nobel Peace Prizes to equal pay!
Download the podcast here. (13MB)
Tonight on Right Now Radio, we listen to highlights from the launch of the DERAILED report by Bridges Across Borders Cambodia – a report which makes findings on the compliance of an AusAID and Asian Development Bank funded project to restore 650km of Cambodia’s railway network with human rights standards and safeguard policies.
Download the podcast here. (12MB)
This program is the last on the monthly theme on prisoner’s rights for Right Now Radio. Sam Tovey, lawyer, joins us to talk about double jeopardy – the Victorian bill, the High Court decision in Bui and the infamous case of Gabe Watson.
Download the podcast here. (12MB)
Australia has a rich history of political musicians from all genres enjoying commercial success. Starting in the 1970s with rock bands like the Skyhooks and Midnight Oil, using music to raise awareness of political issues gained momentum in the early 1980s with the more mellow styles of Archie Roach and Neil Murray. The 1990s gave us Yothu Yindi and the 2000s saw the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd and the Hilltop Hoods reach the mainstream with their messages of social injustice. But over the last 5 years, the popularity of this statement-type music has dwindled, and we have Beth King and Martin Hemingway of the Beth King & The Hemingway Collective in the studio to have a chat about why.
This week we explore the history of the death penalty in Australia and effecting Australians. This is the first in a series of programmes focussing on the impending death sentence of two young Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, members of the so-called ‘Bali Nine’. It features a recent speech by seasoned anti-death penalty campaigner, Barry Jones.
Download the podcast here (11MB)
“Trevor was waiting for a train with his girlfriend Kelly. Martin and his friend walked on to the train platform and stood nearby. Martin said loudly to his friend, “Some guys shouldn’t let their girlfriends walk around looking like sluts”.
Trevor walked over to where Martin was standing and punched him twice in the face. Martin suffered a fractured eye socket and a broken nose.
What sentence would you give Trevor?”
This is a question from the Herald Sun Sentencing Poll released last month in conjunction with the Victorian Attorney-General’s office.
Right Now Radio’s Laura Vines and Anna Dorevitch talk to YouthLaw Community Lawyer, Katrina Wong, about the human rights implications behind the vexed issue of criminal sentencing.
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Saudia Arabia was left relatively untouched by the uprisings for democracy that swept the Arab world in early 2011. However this year a smaller, but remarkably passionate and dynamic movement has hit the country- it has been labeled the ‘Women’s Spring’. It is being led by a group of Saudi women who are using the internet to bring an end to the religious ban that prevents them from driving. We will look at the campaign with Aziza Abdel-Halim, President of the Muslim Women’s National Network Australia, and whether the campaign will find success.
Download podcast here (14MB)
Evelyn Tadros and Matthew Albert speak to actor and performer, Derek Lynch, and creative producer, Sophia Marinos, from the upcoming Malthouse play, Namatjira about Namatjira’s life, legacy and the Big hArt community development projects that are seeking to create positive changes in disadvantaged communities.
Download podcast here (13MB)
Emily Howie speaks to Les Malezer – longtime Aboriginal rights advocate and now the first elected chair of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples – about current issues facing Aboriginal people, the role and aims of the National Congress in relation to human rights and Les’ vision for the future.
Download podcast here (9MB)