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Women on the Line 19.07.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:30:00 -0700

Today on the program we speak with Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Policy Studies at the University of Sydney Dr Lesley Laing, about her report “No Way To Live’. We also hear from the Honourable Justice Robyn Layton discussing the nature of social justice and its interaction with law at the annual Catherine Helen Spence Oration.

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Women on the Line 05.07.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:30:00 -0700

The PM’s gender. On this week’s show we take a look at a very exciting development for Australia – the appointment of our first female Prime Minister – Julia Gillard! We hear from Kathleen Swinbourne from the Women’s Electoral Lobby, Hutch Hussein from Emily’s List Australia and Kathy Richards from the Equality Rights Alliance.

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Women On The Line 28.06.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:30:00 -0700

Shirley Shackleton: Balibo’s Circle of Silence. Since October 16, 1975, Shirley Shackleton has tried to get the truth about the deaths of her husband and four other Australian-based journalists when Indonesian troops overran the town of Balibo – events that were obscured by Indonesia’s brutal occupation of East Timor, unchallenged by successive Australian governments, and which propelled her into activism for East Timor’s freedom. Shirley Shackleton has written a memoir, The Circle of Silence: A Personal Testimony Before, During and After Balibo.

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Women On The Line 14.06.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:30:00 -0700

This year marks the 25th birthday of the Guerrilla Girls an anonymous group of feminist avengers. To honour the occasion we’ll be taking a peek behind the masks of a couple of our favourite artistic avengers, including the Tony Abbott Iron Ladies Auxillary.

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Women On The Line 07.06.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:30:00 -0700

The Fate of Mental Health Social Workers. On this week’s show we take a look at the implications of some of the Federal Government’s recent proposed changes to the Better Access to Mental Health Care program. Featuring the CEO of the Australian Association of Social Workers, Kandie Allen-Kelly, and two clinical social workers.

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Women On The Line 31.05.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 31 May 2010 08:30:00 -0700

Kate Palmer, CEO of Netball Australia, discusses a new report, ‘Towards a level playing field: sport and gender in Australian media’. Jessica Tata from RMIT University discusses her research into body image pressures during pregnancy. And Professor Rosalind Croucher discusses the Australian Law Reform Commission’s new consultation paper on family violence reform.

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Women on the Line 24.05.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 24 May 2010 08:30:00 -0700

Today on the program we hear a response to the government’s proposed new mining and resources super profit tax. Professor Marcia Langton, professor of Australian indigenous studies at the University of Melbourne has published extensively on Aboriginal affairs issues and speaks at the State Library of Queensland for the Griffith Review. Professor Langton asks who really benefits from the mining resources boom and what it means for Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians living in mining regions.

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Women On The Line 17.05.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:30:00 -0700

In today’s program we look at prisons in Australia and ask, ‘What would a world without prisons look like?’. We hear from prison activist and lawyer Amanda George and from Rachel Herzing from the US-based organisation Creative Interventions.

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Women On The Line 10.05.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:30:00 -0700

From Motherland to Otherland. This week’s show features writer Maria Tumarkin who has just released her third book. It’s a memoir and it covers the personal as well as the political. Maria shares with us her experience of visiting Russia and Ukraine with her Australian-born teenage daughter.

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Women on the Line 26.04.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:30:00 -0700

Today we look at the lack of government action in relation to the health of coal communities in the Hunter area, and the agreement by state and federal governments to revolutionalize health in Australia. NSW Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon has been calling for an independent study into the health impacts of the coal mine and power industries for the last 5 years, and Australian Nursing Federation Federal Secretary, Ged Kearney, speaks about the positive moves in relation to health reform.

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Women On The Line 19 .04.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:30:00 -0700

Queer Lives: Remembering Val Eastwood. We speak to Dr Ruth Ford from the history department at La Trobe University about the life of Val Eastwood and Associate Professor Lynne Hillier who says that homophobia remains a feature of young people’s lives.

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Women on the Line 12.04.2010

breebree — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:30:00 -0700

The Economics of Equality. We’ll hear from Helen Mitchell, the author of an economics report recently written for the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. The first of its kind in Australia, the report explores recent changes in the economic measurement of well-being and how new economic measures relate to equality. Comments also from the VEOHRC Commissioner, Helen Szoke.

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Women on the Line 29.03.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:47:00 -0700

This week on the show we hear excerpts from an Arts Matters forum held at the University of Sydney called ‘Why Feminism Matters’. The speakers on the forum included leading international political scientists and Australian academics and researchers discussing the present state of feminism, the roles of women in politics and thoughts about how contemporary feminists can keep the momentum.

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Women on the Line 15.03.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:30:00 -0700

This program is about women changing the world and combating gender inequality. We feature highlights from a recent One Just World forum in Melbourne. The key speakers were Hilary Charlesworth, an internationally renowned commentator on international law and human rights with a strong interest in gender issues, and Jane Sloane, the Executive Director of the International Women’s Development Agency.

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Women On The Line 08.03.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:30:00 -0800

On today’s program, we mark International Women’s Day. Jean Taylor discusses her new book, “Brazen Hussies: A Herstory of Radical Activism in the Women’s Liberation Movement in Victoria, 1970-1979”.

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Women On The Line 01.03.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:30:00 -0800

Today we look at the Senate Inquiry into the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media environment. The inquiry was called in response to concerns that images of sexualised children were becoming increasingly common in advertising and marketing material, and that children are often forced to psychologically and cognitively deal with sex and sexuality before they are developmentally ready. We speak with Dr Emma Rush, Associate Lecturer in Ethics and Philosophy at Charles Sturt University and the lead author of Corporate Paedophilia: Sexualisation of Children in Australia.

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Women On The Line 22.02.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:30:00 -0800

Today we’re covering conflict, cancer, and age discrimination at work. I’ll be finding out why there are fears of renewed conflict in Southern Sudan, from Oxfam Policy advisor Maya Mailer. Then we’ll hear from Annabel Davis about Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and Age Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick explains the Federal Government’s new plans to encourage older Australians to stay in work.

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Women On The Line 15.02.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:30:00 -0800

Bridging the digital divide. Natalie Collins, the General Manager of Infoxchange Australia, talks about plans for a national digital inclusion project. Nicky Lo Bianco, from the State Library of Victoria’s VicNet, discusses their recent report on the digital inclusion of minority language groups.

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Women On The Line 08.02.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:30:00 -0800

One-Dimensional Woman. Nina Power is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University in England, and she writes the blog Infinite ThØught. She discusses her new book, One-Dimensional Woman, a critique of contemporary feminism, published by Zero Books.

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Women On The Line 25.01.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:30:00 -0800

Summer broadcast. Art and Politics: Iran & Israel. Today we’re heading to Tehran to hear from Azadeh about the One Million Signatures campaign and her use of street theatre as a way of highlighting injustices in Iranian law. And 3CR’s Nola Brooks speaks to the first Arab woman to be elected for an Arab party in Israel’s Knesset, Hanneen Zoubi.

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Women On The Line 18.01.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:30:00 -0800

Summer broadcast. The Women of Balibo. Director Robert Connolly’s film ‘Balibo’ tells the story of the Balibo Five and Roger East, six Australian-based journalists who were killed in 1975 when Indonesia invaded East Timor. We speak to Maureen Tolfree, sister of murdered journalist Brian Peters; and Bea Viegas, who acts in the film.

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Women On The Line 11.01.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:30:00 -0800

Summer broadcast. Malalai Joya on Afghanistan’s “mockery of democracy”, and the dangers that modern Afghanistan presents to advocates for women’s rights. Her memoir, Raising My Voice, was recently published.

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Women On The Line 04.01.2010

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:30:00 -0800

Summer broadcast: Family Law Review. We speak to Dr Elspeth McInnes, senior social policy advisor for the National Council for Single Mothers and their Children, and Barbara Bigs, author and child protection campaigner, about the current family law system and proposed changes.

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Women On The Line 28.12.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:30:00 -0800

International Day for Persons with a Disability was celebrated recently. Today we hear some personal stories by and about women with a disability. Melbourne writer Rebecca Maxwell talks about the history of Braille, and Patricia Woodcroft Lee tells us about her aid work in East Timor.

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Women On The Line 21.12.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:30:00 -0800

Will the White Paper get us Home? Today’s program looks at homelessness in Australia. After decades of political neglect homelessness is finally on the Federal Government’s agenda, but what is actually changing for the homeless? We hear from Julie Oberin (Homelessness Australia and WESNET), Michelle Falzon & Monica Fuller tell us about StreetSmart Australia’s current fundraising campaign and Natalie Susman from The Big Issue tells us about their new project.

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Women On The Line 14.12.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:30:00 -0800

Irene Khan & Kate Gilmore: Amnesty’s Decade of Female Leadership. For the first decade of this century, the world’s largest human rights organisation has been led by women. So what difference has female leadership made to the gender blindness in human rights? Two examples stand out. In 2004 Amnesty launched a global campaign to stop violence against women, and in 2007 called for the decriminalisation of abortion worldwide. Today’s show features Irene Khan and Kate Gilmore.

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Women On The Line 07.12.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:30:00 -0800

This week the program falls within the 16 Days of Activism to End Violence Against Women. We’ll hear from Donna Carson, a survivor of domestic violence and outspoken advocate for victim rights and women who have experienced domestic violence. She spoke at one of the many White Ribbon breakfasts held around the country on 25 November. And author and feminist Emily Maguire discusses the collision of lived experiences with the myth of a post-feminist world.

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Women On The Line 30.11.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -0800

Today we hear from Caz Coleman, director of the Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Project, about her international research trip investigating alternative approaches to receiving asylum seekers. Also, 3CR’s Clemmie Wetherall speaks with Dr Larissa Bambury from RMIT University about a report on the continuing gender pay gap in Australian society.

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Women On The Line 23.11.09

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -0800

Understanding Women’s Experiences of Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion. There is little research on women’s experiences of abortion. A recent project based at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital spoke to women who sought health services because of unplanned pregnancy. We hear from two of the project’s researchers, Dr Maggie Kirkman and Annarella Hardiman.

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Women On The Line 16.11.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -0800

The continued debate on asylum seekers has seen a re-emergence of fear tactics in relation to people seeking asylum in Australia arriving by boat. Today on the program we’ll hear from the national coordinator of ‘A Just Australia’, Zhi Yan, about taking a humanitarian approach towards asylum seekers. We also speak to Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick about the lack of gender equity on company boards.

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Women On The Line 09.11.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -0800

Today, a young Indigenous woman’s project to reverse hearing loss in remote Indigenous communities, and we hear from a conference on women in Victorian prisons. Erin Lowry discusses Project Illipa; and Bree Carlton speaks at the Imprisoned People and Social Justice Forum in Melbourne, about her research into the issue of prison survival and release in Victoria.

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Women On The Line 02.11.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -0800

Maternity Leave: A Slow and Unfinished Revolution. Associate Professor Marian Baird traces maternity leave policy and attitudes from the 1979 unpaid maternity leave test case to this year’s announcement of a government paid parental leave scheme.

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Women on the Line 26.10.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:30:00 -0700

Today on the program we hear from human rights activist and writer Unity Dow, speaking at the annual Nelson Mandela Lecture at the University of South Australia. Unity was a High Court Judge in Botswana for 11 year before retiring this year and has more than 16 years of experience in women human rights activism, including on issues of HIV/AIDS.

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Women on the Line 19.10.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:30:00 -0700

Youth Action on the Environment: On today’s show, Greens Senator Christine Milne on the Greens’ Safe Climate Bill and proposed amendments to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Also, Wendy Miller one of Australia’s youth delegates at the climate summit in Copenhagen, and teenage anti-whaling campaigner Skye Bortoli, who recently delivered a petition of 40,000 signatures to Alaska.

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Women On The Line 12.10.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:30:00 -0700

Kim Traill discusses her book, Red Square Blues: A beginner’s guide to the decline and fall of the Soviet Union.

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Women On The Line 05.10.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:30:00 -0700

Nuclear Zero. On 24 September, the UN Security Council unanimously endorsed a resolution for “a world without nuclear weapons”. But with 23,000 nuclear warheads in the world, how do we get to zero? Featuring: Kandori Shizuka, Dr Marianne Hanson, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Dimity Hawkins.

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Women On The Line 28.09.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:30:00 -0700

In September 2009 the Australian Federal Government conducted a Senate Inquiry into the issue of gene patenting. We hear perspectives on gene patenting from Professor Dianne Nicol from the Centre for Law and Genetics at the University of Tasmania, Michelle Marven, Policy Manager with Breast Cancer Network Australia, and Sara Collina from the US-based National Breast Cancer Coailition.

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Women On The Line 21.09.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:30:00 -0700

UN Finds War Crimes in Gaza Assault. A report released on September 15 has found that war crimes occurred on both sides during Israel’s military incursion into Gaza, but that overwhelmingly it was Israel that “committed actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity”. Rachel Johnson, International Solidarity Movement; Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C.

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Women On The Line 14.09.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:30:00 -0700

Racial Discrimination Act & Domestic Violence. Alison Vivian from Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning UTS on the UN review of the NT Intervention and its suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act. And Melanie Heenan from Vic Health about undertaking a National Community Perceptions survey about domestic violence.

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Women on the Line 07.09.2009

www.3cr.org.au — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:30:00 -0700

On today’s show we mark Equal Pay Day (September 1st) and speak to Belinda Tkalcevic, industrial officer with the ACTU. Also, a new report from Amnesty International on the Federal Government’s Indigenous intervention policy; and we hear about the Footscray Legal Centre’s African Legal Service.

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