Women On The Line in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia | Community organisation

Women On The Line

Locality: Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9419 8377

Address: 21 Smith Street 3065 Collingwood, VIC, Australia

Website: www.3cr.org.au/womenontheline

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25.01.2022 The Federal government is currently pushing to expand its trialled cashless debit card scheme provided by Indue that quarantines 80% of recipient's payments. We hear from Amanda from the advocacy group The Say No Seven (link is external)on the fight against the cashless debit card, the danger and harm the card causes particulary for women, and how campaigns against the card have been received in feminist movements. 3CR Community Radio

25.01.2022 LISTEN: On this weeks' Women on the Line we hear from Hope Mathumbu and Sue Bolton; key stories and messages delivered by them at the Online Forum: Covid19 response: Healthcare and Justice not Racism. https://www.3cr.org.au//covid19-response-healthcare-and-ju

25.01.2022 LISTEN: This weeks' podcast is up! In this episode you hear from Shoshanna Dreyfus, about her co-design research project to design potentially the worlds first all abilities and ages inclusive playground in the City of Wollongong. Youll also hear from Katherine Horsfall about her research project, in partnership with the City of Melbourne, to develop Melbournes first Indigenous wildlife meadow at Royal Park in Melbourne.

25.01.2022 "Professor Jayashri Kulkarni, who runs The Alfred hospital women's mental health clinic, said: "We have been absolutely flooded with cases of women seeking support. "We have never had so many referrals. The data strongly shows that women of all ages middle aged, older, younger women are struggling more with depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder due to the impacts of COVID-19." The professor of psychiatry at Monash University said the clinic was also treat...ing a growing number of patients with self-harm injuries and an increasing cohort of women who had not experienced mental health issues before the COVID-19 pandemic. The pyschological consequences of social isolation, the stress of home schooling on-top of other duties such as caring for elderly relatives, and the economic stress of the pandemic were all contributing factors, Professor Kulkarni said." https://www.theage.com.au//absolutely-flooded-record-numbe

25.01.2022 "Now more than ever is a time for formerly incarcerated people to be heard. We know what it is like to sit in an overcrowded cell once built for one but now house two or three, we know what it feels like to not have access to Medicare funded health services and we are hearing first-hand the ongoing hardships and health risks experienced by those inside during the pandemic. We have the expertise and we have the answers, hear us, join us, work with us. While the National Network is fundamentally committed to decarceration, the need to move away from using prisons and other systems of social control in response to crime and social issues, we are especially vocal about the need to decarcerate during a pandemic." https://www.croakey.org/freeher-calling-for-the-release-of/

25.01.2022 LISTEN: You're hearing Aunty Pat Ansell Dodds speaking about 13 years of the failed Nothern Territory Intervention. This week's episode of the program features excerpts from an online forum held on June 19 with moderator Larissa Behrendt in converstaion with Aunty Pat, Amelia Kunoth-Monks and Barbara Shaw. The forum featured five First Nations speakers speaking with Behrendt by video link from on Country across the Northern Territory, as well as two human rights law experts.... This event was held in joint collaboration between Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney, IRAG - Intervention Rollback Action Group - Alice Springs and Concerned Australians. To hear the full episode and for more information follow the link below: https://www.3cr.org.au//13-years-failed-northern-territory

24.01.2022 BROADCAST: Tomorrow, 8:30am - 9am, hear from Shoshanna Dreyfus, about her research project to design potentially the worlds first all abilities and ages inclusive playground in the city of Wollongong. Youll also hear from Katherine Horsfall, about her research project,a partnership with the City of Melbourne, to develop Melbournes first Indigenous wildlife meadow at Royal Park in Melbourne.

24.01.2022 ANNOUNCEMENT - Today we launch a huge crowdfunding campaign after receiving news from the Community Broadcasting Foundation that we would not be awarded any ope...rational funding this year. This is a devastating blow to our broadcasters, volunteers, staff and the communities we service. If the pandemic and global civil rights movements have taught us anything, it is the need for resilience and trustworthy media. This means fighting for media justice and passing the mic to the most marginalised. We've been doing it for 37 years! This is an SOS. We need your support to keep Sydney's most radical radio station on the airwaves! Please share with your friends and family, no donation is too small. Over the next six weeks we will be sharing stories from our broadcasters across social media, so follow our feeds. For more information and to donate go to: https://startsomegood.com/radioskidrow2020 See more

23.01.2022 LISTEN: download last weeks’ podcast episode here: In this episode with poet, Darlene Silva Soberano, we speak about the possibilities of poetry and social justice. How bewilderment, found through poetry and daily living, can keep us connected to our humanity, connected to land and community, giving us purpose for the struggle for justice. Darlene and I discuss bewilderment, pleasure, pandemic lockdown and wellbeing. Listen in to hear Darlene’s poetic take on life and justice.

22.01.2022 Podcast of 1919 Pandemic: Gender and community is here https://www.3cr.org.au//episode-202006220830/1919-pandemic

22.01.2022 Our friends over at 3CR Community Radio Tuesday Breakfast are hosting this panel discussing racial gatekeeping in Australian media next Thursday! Make sure you tune in <3 https://fb.me/e/2Ysoz3m1E

22.01.2022 LISTEN: Tomorrow on Women On The Line, we hear from the incredible Ayan Shirwa about her new show Diaspora Blues on 3CR Community Radio, cultural diversity in the media, and institutional barriers that stand in the way of such diversity. 8.30 to 9am on 855AM/ 3cr.org.au and available as a podcast after!

22.01.2022 This week on Women on the Line we hear about the dirty business of robodebt - a scheme that left thousands of Australians drowning in debt, with many more sadly pushed over the edge. To help us make sense of this scheme we reached out to Asher Wolf, one of the more recognizable faces behind the campaign to end robodebt. Listen to the rest of this conversation - Monday 9am on 3CR... Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/women_on_the_line/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WomenOnTheLine Donate to our station appeal: https://www.3cr.org.au/donate

21.01.2022 LISTEN: Tune into Women on The Line today, Monday 8:30am - 9am, later on demand. We hear from two historians, Mary Sheehan and Liz Crash, talking on the experience of the 1919 Influenza pandemic through the lens of today's pandemic. They cover a broad area from experiences of nurses, community support, comparisons to today (including history repeating), technological changes, gender, unemployment and resistance. ... Listen via 3CR Community Radio 855AM, digital, or stream live via https://www.3cr.org.au/streaming. If you miss it, you can listen back on-demand via https://www.3cr.org.au/womenontheline for up to a week after initial broadcast. Podcast will follow soon after.

21.01.2022 "Its 20 years since the release of Talkin Up to the White Woman, an innovative text that made a serious intergenerational intellectual impact on First Nations women on this continent and overseas, where Moreton-Robinson was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the book which has never been out of print Moreton-Robinson not only analysed and criticised how white feminists constructed their ideas about Aboriginal women, but also showed how Aboriginal women made their own intellectual constructions of white feminism. This is hardly novel in First Nations public life today, in part because of Moreton-Robinsons groundwork; she says the book catalysed a way of thinking about representation as an epistemological possession, which came to also shape her later works on The White Possessive."

20.01.2022 Demands from a coalition of residents, family members and community 1. All public housing estates to be placed under Stage 3 COVID-19 restrictions like all our neighbours so we can still leave our homes for work or education, exercise, medical care or care giving, or shopping for supplies. 2. The Victorian Government must withdraw all 500 Police and Authorised Officers from the inside of all public housing estates. 3. The Victorian Government must implement infection prevent...ion measures such as regular disinfection and cleaning of communal spaces, and distribution of masks. 4. The Victorian Government must set up testing sites in walking distance of the nine public housing estates instead of inside of the public housing estates in order to prevent the risk of spreading COVID-19. 5. The Victorian Government must coordinate services in support of current community led activities that are responding to resident's food, medical, financial, mental health and social service needs. Voices from the blocks North Melbourne Flemington and Kensington As of 07 July 2020 #FreeThe9Blocks

20.01.2022 LISTEN: Download the podcast here. Grace Sweeney from Homebirth Australia speaks on the significance of homebirth and the imperative of its sustainability as its popularity grows during the Covid19 pandemic.

15.01.2022 LISTEN: This week we turn to two different areas long neglected by governments in Australia, now facing more dire consequences during the coronavirus pandemic: decarceration and housing justice. We hear from Tabitha Lean (Twitter(link is external)), an advocate for incarcerated people on pushes to free people inside prison at risk of death from virus outbreaks and politics towards prison abolition. This interview previously aired on 3CR Thursday Breakfast with Priya Kunjan. Second, we hear from Eirene Tsolidis Noyce on the housing justice organising of precarious renters with the Renters And Housing Union - VIC . 3CR Community Radio https://www.3cr.org.au///decarceration-and-housing-justice

15.01.2022 "As Black, Brown, Indigenous people and allies in the United States and across the world collectively rise up to end systemic racism and violent police practices, it was necessary for us here in Australia to also rise. This is a global movement, and this is an issue that Australia is a part of too. When the footage emerged of the murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers, as he desperately pleaded I cant breathe, we were all horrified and outraged, but not... surprised. We were immediately reminded of the cries of I cant breathe that Dunghutti man David Dungay Jr made as he had the life crushed out of him by officers in Sydneys Long Bay prison. We thought of Aunty Tanya Day, of Ray Thomas Jr, of Joyce Clarke, of Ms Dhu, of Kumanjayi Walker, of Veronica Nelson and of far too many others." https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au//why-we/15919704009972

14.01.2022 LISTEN: Laws and practices in relation to policing in so-called Australia are changing under the cover of COVID-19. This week on the program we speak with TIffany Overall from Youthlaw about the implications of a new bill which will significantly expand the reach of Protective Services Officers in Victoria. Then we head to Sydney to speak with Charlie Murphy of Pride in Protest about the police response to an October 10 protest against new State legislation proposed by Mark L...atham which would eliminate support for trans and gender diverse children in the NSW school system. https://www.3cr.org.au//police-powers-and-protest-under-co

14.01.2022 LISTEN: That's Angela Cook from the CFA (Country Fire Authority) speaking about new resources the CFA has developed to support people with disabilities with bushfire planning. Angela spoke at the Disability Advocacy Resource Unit's recent forum on Disability and Disaster Resilience. Later in the program we hear an excerpt from the forum featuring Angela in conversation with Toni, a woman with lived expeirence of disability, speaking about the barriers she faces when bushfire planning and her current bushfire preparedness strategy. You can hear the episode and find links to the CFA's new resources as well as recordings from DARU's forum at https://www.3cr.org.au//bushfire-preparation-and-people-di

14.01.2022 Podcast now available: in today’s show, we heard part 1 of the incredible panel organised by 3CR Tuesday Breakfast This panel event brought together staunch voi...ces against the criminalisation of coercive control in Australia. Panel guests discussed ways to resist state-based solutions and draw on knowledge from our communities to build on abolitionist frameworks to end violence. Safety for Who?: Abolitionist Perspectives on Criminalising Coercive Control was hosted by George Maxwell and featured Tabitha Lean, Georgia Mantle, and Monique Hameed. Catch the full panel show on Tuesday Breakfast tomorrow 7-830 am on 3CR Community Radio or as a podcast after!

13.01.2022 PODCAST now available: catch the Women On The Line ep where Ayan Shirwa from 3CR Community Radios Diaspora Blues talks to us about media diversity and institutional barriers - 3cr.org.au/womenontheline or your usual podcast platforms!

12.01.2022 LISTEN: We hear stories from women inside prison. People in prisons are already experiencing state violence, now during a pandemic where contagion can spread like wildfire in crowded indoor spaces. We hear from Vickie Roach, Yuin writer and activist, about her lived experience inside prison to politics of abolition. Second, we hear from LGBTIQ and disability justice advocate Ashleigh Chapman on her experiences, including being inside during the pandemic. Vickie's interview originally aired with Marisa Sposora on the Doin' Time show. Ashleigh's experiences were heard at the Abolitionist and Transformative Justice Centre Stories from Inside Prison webinair. https://www.3cr.org.au//episod/stories-women-inside-prison

12.01.2022 If anyone in the flats / if you know of anyone living there who wants to talk to media, 3CR Community Radio Women On The Line 3CR Tuesday Breakfast & other programs are keen to hear from you - DM us

10.01.2022 BROADCAST: 3CR Tomorrow Monday 8:30-9:00am: Hospital maternity departments are rapidly changing protocols and policies in an attempt to protect staff and patients from the Covid-19 virus. However, these changes leave birthing people concerned. As a result people are turning to homebirth in unprecedented numbers. We speak with Grace Sweeney, one of the coordinators of Homebirth Australia, about this turn to homebirth and the campaign to support the sustainability of the homebirth care model. Photo credit: Jerusha Sutton

10.01.2022 #JusticeForTanyaDay

10.01.2022 "Victoria claims to be progressive in its relationship with Aboriginal people and communities. There are conflicting agendas here, one where the government is supporting the progression of the treaty and the other where they’re comfortable in proceeding with the irreversible destruction of significant cultural heritage. Our bodies are at one with the country, we can feel the chains of the chainsaw grinding through our souls, our spirits. The sounds of those chainsaws will haunt us forever and be added to the already existing intergenerational trauma shadowing our people. There are no words to describe the emptiness we as Djab Wurrung are feeling right now. " https://www.theguardian.com//the-destruction-of-a-sacred-t

10.01.2022 You can now listen to us on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6lCkDne4hfDU5N3SfLRT2d

10.01.2022 LISTEN: Disconnection and Connection in the Covid19 Pandemic crisis podcast now on 3CR Community Radio website! Go download and share the love amongst your networks.

08.01.2022 Podcast on Let's Talk, "What happened to Aunty Sherry? In this podcast we ask nephew Troy Brady what he knows about what happened? Theres nothing natural about dying in a cold, concrete prison cell and the family want answers."

08.01.2022 Tune in this morning @ 8:30am, 855AM, digital, radio app, streaming live at 3cr.org.au/streaming Decarceration and housing justice This week we turn to two different areas long neglected by governments in Australia, now facing more dire consequences during the coronavirus pandemic: decarceration and housing. We hear from Tabitha Lean, an advocate for incarcerated people, on pushes to free people inside prison at risk of death from virus outbreaks and politics towards prison abolition. Second, we hear from Eirene Tsolidis Noyce on the organising of precarious renters with the Renters and Housing Union (Victoria).

05.01.2022 It's the end of a rather awful week and we had some incredible wins yesterday regarding the punitive lockdowns in North Melbourne and Flemington. I just wanted ...to say that I know it is scary times, and everyone will want to move to protection mode for themselves and their immediate circle, feel as though the government is now all good RE the residents of the 9 towers. However, I encourage you all not to forget the residents of the 9 residential blocks. There is still a considerable amount of mismanagement and chaos - I know of many stories of people who have still been unable to access required medical care, often in distress, and treated with indifference or hostility by police sent with guns to keep them detained. There are residents at 33 Alfred St who continue to face a hard lockdown, many of whom who are not positive but are now locked in with those who are, waiting and hoping not to catch coronavirus. How frightened and vulnerable many must still feel. Do not forget them. Statement from residents - please share: MEDIA RELEASE: 8 of the 9 towers released, but the mismanagement continues The Victorian Governments recent announcement to lift detention orders from eight of the nine public housing estates would not have been possible if it werent for the advocacy led by the communities that live across the North Melbourne and Flemington public housing estates. In a matter of hours, we turned this crisis into victory, as the entire community came together, to support one another and speak up for each. Our elected officials and funded institutions were not able to provide for our basic needs - so we did that for our community. - Affirmed by residents in a statement. Residents, their families and community managed a health emergency on their own. They provided up to date information to 3000 people in 30 different languages within 24 hours, kept track of testing when there was no other agency doing so, coordinated a media response, and encouraged people to get tested. While Voices from the Blocks welcomes this announcement to lift the detention orders, the Victorian Government still refuses to meet all of our key demands. 33 Alfred Street, North Melbourne still remains under detention orders, still requesting basic information about their situation, and patrolled by police that will be soon replaced by prison guards. Residents, families and the community stand firm that there is no need for police in a health crisis. Especially while the same patterns of mismanagement and negligence continue with no clarity around access to PPE, interpreters, COVID-19 testing and how people who test positive for COVID-19 can access support. Residents have reported that their calls to the 1800 961 054 hotline set up by the Department of Health and Human Services take up to an hour to get through and many are left unanswered. Detention orders are a health risk. Locking people in their homes without the ability to support one another, without access to their regular health services, and the natural benefits of fresh air in a non hostile environment is a health risk. Voices from the Blocks key demands are: 1. For the Victorian government to allow residents deemed as high risk to relocate with family and friends located outside the towers, until the period the Covid 19 crisis is deemed under control by an independent health body with experience in this field. 2. For the Victorian government to create a committee made up of health experts, community members and residents, both under hard lockdown and in Stage 3, to coordinate the continued management of this Covid 19 crisis within the towers. 3. The establishment of clear two way communication channels between residents in the towers and decision makers in government that have decision making authority. 4. The appointment of an independent body of health experts made up of specialists from experienced in managing the complexity of the tower situation, with the ultimate aim of reviewing and providing guidance on all health and disease related matters undertaken by the Department of Human Services prior to implementation. 5. For the Victorian government to implement infection prevention measures such as regular disinfection and cleaning of communal spaces, and distribution of masks, for the foreseeable future, until a Covid 19 vaccine is available or an independent health body deems the Covid risk within the towers as not requiring such action. 6. For the Victorian government to guarantee Covid testing is carried out at the door of a residents apartment, instead of in the foyer for those under hard lockdown. 7. For the Victorian government to coordinate services in support of current community led activities that are responding to residents food, medical, financial, mental health and social service needs. #FreeThe9Blocks

01.01.2022 Tomorrow on Women On The Line: we hear from Tigist Kebede, counsellor and advocate, about how we can support the community in lockdown, and Tamar Hopkins, lawyer and researcher in the areas of police accountability and racial profiling about the history of policing in Flemington and what defunding the police would look like here. 8.30 to 9am on 3cr.org.au and available as a podcast immediately after!