Radical Australia
Listen in as host Joe Toscano yarns with a different guest each week about their experience in movements and campaigns for progressive social change.
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Catherine Rouse (opens the original)
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* Environmental activist * Stop Wollert waste incinerator campaignerCleanaway wants to truck in and burn 20 MILLION tonnes of rubbish at 510 Summerhill Rd., Wollert. Toxic pollution spreads far and wide, and accumulates year after year. 0-5 km - immediate impact zone: Wollert, Donnybrook, Kalkallo, partos of Craigieburn5-10 km - Fall out zone: Yan Yean, Epping, Mernda10-20 km - Eider fall out zone: Mill Park, Thomastown, Whittlesea, Greensborough, Fawkner, Reservoir, Preston See where the plume
Jessica Hutchins & her daughter Mason - two vibrant, intelligent women, who you can’t wait to meet (opens the original)
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* Public housing advocate* Member of the Rental Advisory Group* Jessica has raised the urgency of the adoption of a human rights charter, via written submissions to senators & MPs around Australia.* In a separate action, Jessica questioned Victorian MP Josh Burns office about what percentage of the Housing Future Fund would be directed to public housing. The office understood community housing to be the beneficiary.* Hear more from our guests about the comingled terminology used to describe hous
Angelo Grando (opens the original)
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Professor Gary Foley and Dr Joe Toscano are joined by their old friend and comrade Angelo Grando on one of Radical Australia's earliest episodes.First broadcast on 11 September 2013 and long thought lost, Angelo's family fortunately found the recording tucked away in a box at home.Listen to Angelo's story from his childhood in Italy to migrating to Australia, the politically transformative years at Monash University in the late 1960s and 1970s, his lifelong political and close friendships with G
Beth Matthews (opens the original)
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* Presenter: Radical Philosophy, 3CR
Rukukuye Mastaky (opens the original)
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Rukukuye Mastaky was a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who arrived in Australia from the Tanzania refugee camp.He is now an Australian citizen, and is active in the Congolese community. *Special thanks to 3CR's Madison Moffat for this show's audio capture.
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