Podcasts by Radioactive Show

Native American struggles for Land Justice from 2023-12-12T20:31:25.254510

This week’s show features interviews with two Native American activist warriors- Dennis Banks and Ammon Russell. Rad show co-producers Gem and Crunch met them while participating in the Movement To...

Seventy Years of the Bomb from 2023-12-12T20:31:25.251507

Seventy Years of the Bomb:Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembered.August 6 and 9 mark 70 years since two devastating split seconds in time, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945. 3CR's Jan ...

Cameco's Saskatchewan Secrets Part 1 from 2023-12-12T20:31:25.243875

Cameco's Saskatchewan Secrets Part 1This is part one of a two-part Radioactive Show special, looking at the uranium mining industry in the north of the Canadian province, Saskatchewan. The industry...

Pine Gap and Drone Warfare: Australia's Role from 2023-12-12T20:31:25.234855

Pine Gap is a Joint US-Australia signals intelligence facility located near Alice Springs in the arid heart of Australia. It is vitally important to the US war-fighting machine, and often referred ...

Inglewood&India - the Federal Government's dodgy nuclear deals! from 2023-12-12T20:31:25.166804

Not Here Not Anywhere – National Campaign on Nuclear Dump from 2023-12-12T20:31:25.143025

Six nominated sites for a National Radioactive Waste Dump are undergoing further assessment with a public comment period closing on March 11th.  As we've been hearing, there are serious concerns at...

Proposed Nuclear Dump Sites: Grand Tour! from 2023-12-12T20:31:25.077452

Six sites across Australia are on the federal government's shortlist for a national radioactive waste dump and all 6 communities are fired up. They don't want to become famous as the host with the ...

UN talks to prohibit nuclear weapons #1 from 2023-12-12T20:31:25.072612

We delve a little deeper into the world of disarmament diplomacy, examining landmark United Nations talks that began in Geneva, Switzerland, in February. The new working group is gathering for thre...

UN talks to prohibit nuclear weapons #2 from 2023-12-12T20:31:25.069120

We continue exploring the landmark discussions in the UN working group, laying the groundwork to negotiate a new instrument prohibiting nuclear weapons. This process is challenging the nuclear weap...

Black Mist White Rain #1: Nuclear Legacy In The Marshall Islands from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.976041

In the 1940s and 1950s, the US Government tested 67 nuclear bombs on the stunning Marshall Islands during the 40s and 50s.  The testing program lead to land dispossession, permanent contamination o...

No Nuclear Wasteland in the Flinders Ranges from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.961378

This week we continue looking at the campaign to stop a radioactive waste dump on Adnymathanha land in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. We hear from Enice Marsh, Linda Coulthard, Regina McKenz...

Election Special from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.947458

On Election Day, we talk to the Greens Spokesperson on Foreign policy, climate change and nuclear issues, Senator Scott Ludlam. Senator Ludlam's Speech:http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/...

Wrap up of Lizards Plus other news headlines from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.943494

I get to talk to Meg who went to lizards revenge. There's also news headlines from around the world in the areas of nuclear, sustainabilty and peace. Mentioned:www.closepinegap.org

Poised to outlaw nuclear weapons from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.894669

Is the international community poised to outlaw the most destructive weapons ever created? In this episode, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons reports on the progress made at the...

Nuclear Disarmament in sight - Australia blocks consensus from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.884100

On this week’s show we speak to Tim Wright from ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. We discuss the recent developments at the UN Conference on Disarmament bringing us close...

Maralinga 60 Years On: Art keeps the stories alive from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.874061

60 years on from the British atomic tests at Maralinga, a series of touring exhibitions keep the stories alive through powerful artwork.  'Black Mist Burnt Country','Nuclear'and'Collisions'are crea...

Global Warming and War from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.870291

Radioactive chats with Dr. Marty Branagan about the relationship between climate change and militarism - we cannot hope to fix the climate crisis without creating a more just, peaceful and disarmed...

Yami Lester's Story: International Day of People With Disability Special from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.846131

Yami Lester is a Yankunytjatjara man of northern South Australia who was blinded by a"black mist"- fallout from in the 1950’s.  As a young man, he joined the Aboriginal Advancement League in Adelai...

Government woos community with $2 million fund from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.833009

On this week’s show we speak to 3 people from the Hawker community and get their views on the $2 million community development fund that the Federal government has allocated to them, ostensibly reg...

Inside ARPANSA from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.790010

On this week’s show, we look at the role of ARPANSA, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, Australia’s nuclear regulator.   We speak to the organisation’s CEO Carl Magnus L...

Kicking the can down the road from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.783116

The Federal Government has recently accepted two new nominations for a site for the National radioactive waste dump at Kimba in South Australia.On this week’s show, we speak to peter woolford from ...

Banning the bomb from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.779728

UN negotiations for a nuclear weapon ban treaty started with a one week session at the UN at the end of March. The aim of the ban is to de-legimatise nuclear bombs and put them on the same legal fo...

Barndioota Nomination Anniversary from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.770402

Saturday 29th April marked the one year anniversary of the nomination of Barndioota, or Wallerberdina, in the Flinders Ranges as the Federal government’s preferred site for a national radioactive w...

Fight to stop 4 new uranium mines in WA from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.758621

WA’s new premier, the ALP’s Mark McGowan, stated before the election that he wouldn’t overturn any final approvals that had been made, but what is final approval?  What does the change of governmen...

Women Ban The Bomb - On the eve of a Global Nuclear Weapons Ban from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.749970

On Saturday the 17th of June, a women led, all-inclusive rally was held in Melbourne in solidarity with the Women's March to Ban the Bomb! and as part of a National Day of Action in anticipation of...

A Time to Remember from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.740003

We commemorate the anniversary of the nuclear bombs falling on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. KA speaks to Hibakusha survivor Sou Horie. Closer to home, Marcus Atkinson and Vicky Abdullah give up...

Walkatjurra Walkabout - Wiluna and Yeelirrie from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.680426

On this show, I want to take you all out bush, onto Wangkatja Country, in the Northern Goldfields of Western Australia. It’s here that traditional owners have been fighting for over 40 years to pro...

War, Peace&Independence: IPAN conference opening from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.677051

Today we present excerpts from speeches delivered at ‘War, Peace and Independence' a public forum held in Naarm/Melbourne on Friday the 7th of September. We hear from Meriki Onus (Warriors of the A...

Toxic Legacy - The clean up of Ranger Uranium Mine from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.666794

On this week’s radioactive show, we hear the session at the recent Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting about the clean up of ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory.  The discussion then...

Mythbusting nuclear medicine from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.645441

Do we need a dump to have nuclear medicine?On this week’s radioactive show we speak to Dr Margaret Beavis from MAPW, the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, who dispels some of the misin...

Fukushima support project&Scott Ludlam from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.599445

Recordings from two meetings:Scott Ludlam, former federal senator and anti nuclear activist, meet up with Andy Paine, peace activist and sometimes journalist, to discuss Scott's experience of being...

Making Waves - Peace Boat in Adelaide from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.592579

Peace Boat Nuclear Survivors in AdelaidePeace Boat, a Japanese based global NGO, visited Adelaide on 29th January for the first time as part of a speaking tour featuring nuclear survivors from Japa...

Serenading Adela: A Street Opera from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.582371

Serenading Adela: A Sreet Opera was a performance held on 7 January 2018 at the old Pentridge prison, in Coburg Melbourne. It tells a history of the anti WW1-conscription campaigns held nationally,...

First WA Rad Tour - Stories from the Road from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.559888

On this weeks show, you will hear part one of the recordings taken from the first Western Australian Rad Tour where activists travelled for 13 nights over 4,000 kilometres from Perth to the four pr...

WA Rad Tour - Stories from the Road Part 2 from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.549053

On this weeks show, you will hear part two of the recordings taken from the first Western Australian Rad Tour 2018 where activists travelled for 13 nights over 4,000 kilometres from Perth to the fo...

Adnyamathanha People Say No from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.489142

On this week’s radioactive show we hear Adnyamathanha concerns about the radioactive waste dump threatening their Country.We hear an interview with Vince Coulthard, the CEO of ATLA, the Adnyamathan...

One Year On : Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.472310

This week we speak with Dr Sue Wareham, president of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, MAPW and board member of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ICAN, Australia on...

Hiroshima Never Again - 73 years on from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.454894

This radioactive show we commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by sharing Seksuko Thurlow's story of survival from that devastating event. This is from a recording of ...

Nobel Peace Ride and SA Radioactive Waste Dump update from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.439348

Today we bring you an interview with Tilman Ruff from International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) about the Nobel Peace Ride.  The Nobel Peace Ride will take the Nobel Peace Prize meda...

Peddling peace to Canberra: Nobel Peace Ride launches from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.402114

On Sunday 2nd September about 100 people gathered at Victorian parliament to send off a group of cyclists travelling to Canberra as a part of the ICAN Nobel Peace ride. ICAN is of course the intern...

ANFA 2018 Snapshot from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.384314

Over the weekend of 19-21 October 2018, members of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) met on Kaurna and Peramangk country in the Adelaide Hills. Dozens of Aboriginal Nations and civil soci...

Don't Dump on SA rally - We Still Say NO! from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.375211

This radioactive show features some of the speakers from the Don’t Dump on SA rally held on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide on 3rd November. Over 1000 people from all over South Australia...

Cedar stops a coal tain from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.372246

Cedar is a young person scared for the future of their climate. So Cedar decided to put their body on the line to slow down coal exports. Here's their story.

Global and local updates from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.366403

Today we are joined by Dr.Jim Green - National Anti-nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth for an update on the state of play for the nuclear industry internationally and a look ahead to nucl...

We won! Celebrating 20 year on from the Jabiluka blockade. from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.363223

Young Mirrar Traditional Owners talk about the future of Jabiru and Kakadu beyond uranium mining, 20 years on from the Jabiluka mine win and with uranium ore processing coming to an end at Ranger u...

Yarns and updates from South Australia from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.356361

On this weeks show we speak with Lyn Hovey - activist, artist and curator of the Arabunna gallery in Marree about the upcoming launch of her friend and Arabunna man, Reg Dodd’s, book'Talking Sidewa...

Honoring Women Fighting for Country from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.352438

A special edition Radioactive Show this week for International  Women's Day, honoring the women at the forefront of many campaigns to stop the nuclear industry here in this country but also globall...

Yeelirrie Legal Challenge Public Forum from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.347452

On this weeks Radioactive Show we hear from the recent Western Australia Public Forum on the Yeelirrie legal challenge. The proposed Yeelirrie uranium mine is subject to a current legal challange i...

Shocking Federal Approval for Yeelirrie from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.338567

On this weeks show, we hear from Mia Pepper, from the Conservation Council of WA on the recent shocking and highly political Federal approval of Yeelirrie uranium mine. We also hear from Debbie Car...

Keep on Fighting: WA Updates from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.296928

The announcement of the Federal environmental approval was not what many were expecting, especially for the First Nations people of Yeelirrie. This week, we speak to the Ban Uranium Mining Permanen...

Yes To Life No To Mining from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.293416

On this week’s show we take a look at the Yes to Life No to Mining Movement, and hear from one of their regional co-ordinators, Natalie Lowrey.Those communities who wish to say No to mining should ...

West Papua: The Pacific crisis we can no longer ignore from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.283891

Rosa Moiwend, a West Papuan researcher, activist and educator speaks at a forum called,'West Papua: The Pacific Crisis we can no longer ignore', held in Christchurch, New Zealand. She speaks of the...

The Treaty of Waitangi:Speaking to a Treaty worker in Aotearoa from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.274626

In the show we share with you an interview with Katherine Peet, a Pākehā resident of Ōtautahi (Christchurch) and organiser with Network Waitangi Ōtautahi. Our discussion is based around the signifi...

On US missiles in the Northern Territory - Australia wedged between its closest ally and greatest trading partner China from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.264500

Last month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s AUSMIN visit and hints at Australia hosting US missiles in Northern Territory raised many concerns about provoking and even blindly following the US ...

Blockade IMARC: First Nations resistance to mining from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.250508

Today we hear from from First Nations front-line communities on their struggles against mining&resource extraction.  Uncle Ned Hargreaves, from Yuendemu in the Northern Territory, Wiradjuri activis...

Tjiwarl women win ACF's Rawlinson Award from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.235219

On this weeks show you will hear from Tjiwarl woman, Vicki Abdullah who was one of the recipients of this years Australian Conservation Foundation's 2019 Rawlinson award winner with her two aunties...

Minister picks Kimba - We still say NO! from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.192068

On this weeks show we speak with Friends of the Earth’s National Nuclear Campaigner Dr Jim Green about the latest developments on the federal government’s push for a radioactive waste facility in S...

Nuclear Refugees: Maralinga to Mulga Rock from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.181929

Earlier this year, the Japanese Peace Boat made its 103rd voyage to this country, visiting Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. Anangu Spinifex woman, Debbie Carmody on her recent time on the...

Reject the Bill, Scrap the Act - Federal legislation targets Kimba from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.171351

On this episode of the Radioactive Show, we speak to Mark Parnell, the parliamentary leader of the SA Greens in the South Australian Legislative Council. We discuss the federal bill currently befor...

Don’t poison the ocean with Fukushima's radioactive water ! from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.150152

The storage capacity at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is reaching its limit, and a japanese government committee has come out with a report stating that “the most realistic option is to release...

Healthcare not Warfare: World Conference 2020 from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.145580

As we come to the end of the Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) the magnitude and importance of work needed to redirect national budgets to'Healthcare not Warfare'is clear.  This we...

No justice, no peace: Black Deaths in Custody from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.117747

In today's show highlighting the Black Lives Matter movement, I'm sharing interviews and statements from family members of First Nations people who have died in custody. Since the Royal Commission ...

From nuclear bombs to transitional justice from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.107712

On this Radioactive Show we hear an interview that originally went to air on 3CR’s Doin’ Time show. Marisa interviews Aunty Helen, Aboriginal academic and Elder, about her personal story around lan...

OREPA and the Y12 bomb plant from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.099338

 On this Radioactive Show, we hear an interview recorded by KA Garlick with Ralph Hutchinson. Ralph is the coordinator of OREPA, the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance.  He tells us about the Y...

A Hiroshima survivor's story: Koko Kondo from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.095365

August 6th, 2020 marks 75 years since the bombing of Hiroshima. On this Rad Show, we are sharing a talk by Koko Kondo, a hibakusha from Hiroshima, speaking here about her experience as a nuclear su...

Radioactive Pigeons and Nuclear Children from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.077397

Today’s focus is on the role of various art and media practices on engaging with nuclear legacies and nuclear stories. We hear from Merilyn Fairskye, Sydney based photomedia artist about her new fi...

Sentencing of Plowshare activists - The Ultimate logic of Trident from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.039045

  This week we hear an interview about the Sentencing of 2 of the 7 Plow Shares activists in the United States. The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 performed an action as part of their campaign for nuclear ...

Nuclear weapons, gendered violence&the feminist Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons from 2023-12-12T20:31:24.022298

As part of 3CR’s 16 Days of Action against Gender-Based Violence we're joined by Dimity Hawkins and Marianne Hanson to discuss nuclear weapons, gender and the feminist ‘Treaty on the Prohibition of...

Protecting Country from Gas and Fracking from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.997656

We hear from Aunty June Mills - Larrakia elder speaking about the community campaign against gas fracking proposed for the Beetaloo Basin in the Nothern Territory.  This speech is from an online fo...

Stop Lynas Rare Earths’ radioactive legacy from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.982002

  Today we hear from Lee Tan, who is working with Aid/Watch to stop the radioactive activities of  Australian company Lynas Rare Earths in both Western Australia and Malaysia. Lynas seem to be gett...

Solidarity with unpaid workers caring for Country from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.968139

On this radioactive show, we take a look at the work done by aboriginal people around Australia caring for Country. This work is not only mostly unpaid, but also comes at enormous personal cost. Wh...

Disrupt Land Forces from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.961538

Today we speal with Zelda and Porobibi from the Make West Papua Safe campaign about Disrupt Land Forces. A festival of resistance to the Land Forces Defence Exposition that runs from May 28-June 3 ...

Militarisation in Australia: Normalisation and Mythology from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.945219

A conversation with Barbara O’Dwyer and Ludmilla Kwitko. two long term organisers involved with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (or WILPF). We explore a report released in Ma...

Uranium Cordial - contaminated drinking water from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.935508

In this episode, Anthony Amis, land use researcher at Friends of the Earth, takes us through the findings of the WA Auditor Report which found unacceptable levels of uranium in drinking water in se...

Ban School! #2 Resistance is forever from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.916825

Today we have highlights from the second of ICAN’s Ban School series, which is titled Resistence is forever. This session dives into this rich and living history of resistance of First Nations peop...

The Road to a Nuclear Free Future from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.904287

 The latest report by the Mineral Policy Institute and CCWA is a blueprint for managing the risks associated with uranium mining while providing new hope and real opportunities to protect Western A...

Is lithium the answer to zero emissions? from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.880692

 On this episode of the Radioactive Show, we hear from Liz Downes from the Rainforest Action Group and PhD student and Aid/Watch committee member Claire Burgess about the problems with so called gr...

Ban School #4 - Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.875185

On today’s show, we share the 4th session of ICAN’s Ban School. This time featuring Ray Acheson, Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of Women’s International League for peac...

Nuclear: No Climate Solution - A political dead cat from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.859519

On today’s show, we hear from two of the speakers at the Nuclear: No Climate Solution forum coordinated by the Friends of the Earth Nuclear Free collective in conjunction with Blockade IMARC in Oct...

Crawl out through the fallout - nuclear tunes from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.847339

 Nuclear issues have long been the source of inspiration for many songs. Today, we’ll listen to some of them, as well as have a bit of an update on the federal government's push for a radioactive w...

Spending big on tanks from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.841997

Today’s show features an interview with Elise West, the Executive Officer of the Medical Association for Prevention of War. The interview was conducted by Phuong Tran, for 3CR’s Tuesday breakfast s...

IWD 2022: First Nations women protecting country and culture. from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.827947

For this International Women’s Day 2022 special we bring you the powerful voices of three First Nations women that have been featured on the Radioactive Show across the last year and recognise the ...

Barngarla say no! Nuclear waste dump update from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.815968

An update on the campaign to stop a nuclear waste dump on Barngarla land near Kimba, South Australia. It begins with Barngarla people who are staunchly protecting their country from the proposed ra...

Lynas - from Kalgoorlie to Kuantan from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.811607

 An interview between 3CR’s Jan Bartlett and Lee Tan from Aid/Watch.  Lee updates us on the impacts of Australian miner Lynas Rare Earth’s, both in Australia and Malaysia.Malaysians should not be l...

End Victoria's association with Elbit Systems from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.797863

 While Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has excluded Israeli arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, from its investment portfolio because of allegations of its involvement in the prod...

The music show! Nuclear free tunes from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.786113

Today’s show contains all nuclear themed songs, hosted by AC and Micheala. Originally recorded live in September last year for the Rotations show, we've picked the highlights for you to enjoy.Song ...

To Vienna with love - Notes from the first nuclear ban treaty meeting from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.777776

A discussion from one of ICAN’s Nuclear Ban hubs, an event featuring experts from on the ground at the landmark first meeting of states parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapon...

Get Up! Stand Up! against nuclear weapons: From Port Augusta to Vienna from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.773659

 It’s NAIDOC week and the theme is Get Up Stand Up Show Up!We hear from three incredible activists doing just that: Yankunytjatjara-Anangu woman Karina Lester and Kokatha Mula women Sue Coleman-Has...

‘No More Hiroshima’s - Peace Not War' from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.764461

On the 77th Anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima, we take time to think of all of those around the world that have died due to nuclear weapons.   We keep carrying on the stories and me...

Disrupt Land Forces 2022 from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.749449

Land Forces is the largest land based weapons expo in the Southern Hemisphere. Wage Peace is organising, for the second year, a festival of resistance from October 1-7 in Meanjin-Brisbane. We speak...

Keep Space For Peace from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.746144

Women, life, freedom! The uprising in Iran from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.733777

A conversation with three Iranian women - Dr Negar Partow, Dr Hoda Afshar and Dr Forough Amin - about the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran and what this uprising means for the future of the ...

SOS: Help protect Murujuga country from gas from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.696177

Barngarla challenge Kimba nuclear waste dump in court&nuclear capable B52 bombers update from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.688606

The Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation (BDAC) heads to the Federal Courts in Adelaide on March 6 to contest the Federal Government selection of the Napandee site near Kimba, South Austr...

Countering militarism: In conversation with Ray Acheson from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.680264

A conversation with Ray Acheson in the 3CR studios, visiting from New York. We discuss cultures of militarism, patriarchy and militarism, nuclear submarines and AUKUS, and how to build an alternati...

Stopping a nuclear dump on Adnyamathanha lands from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.675183

The McKenzie sisters led the successful fight to stop a nuclear waste dump at Wallerberdina Station on Adnyamathanha lands in South Australia. At the national Australia Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA)...

Listen to Our Voices from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.670042

This week we bring you recordings from a visit that the Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Free Collective made to the Napandee proposed nuclear waste dump site at Kimba on the Eyre Peninsula in South ...

June Lennon: For the Elders from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.654485

Pacific Peace Tour: Combined opposition to Talisman Sabre from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.646331

As the Talisman Sabre military war games held on this continent draw to close and we mark the 78th anniversary of the dropping of a nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki we take a look at the cor...

Organising for peace: Against the military&SUBS in schools from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.637457

First up we are joined by Margaret Pestorius from Wage Peace Australia to talk about their work, that has seen them be recognised internationally as winner of World Beyond War's Organizational War ...

Whale Song not Gas! from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.600281

Millions will take to the streets in a global mobilisation to #EndFossilFuels from September 15-17 as political leaders meet in New York City for the UN Secretary General's'Climate Ambition Summit'...

Uncle Kevin Buzzacott: Still Speaking Strong from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.586757

Arabunna Elder, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, has returned to be on Country, by the sacred Mound Springs and Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre). In today’s show we feature current recordings of Uncle Kevin, speaking...

Anti-nuclear and peace action: WA&NT from 2023-12-12T20:31:23.577811

On today's program, we will be hearing from Mia Pepper from Nuclear Free WA speaking outside the Deep Yellow AGM in Perth on Friday 24 November.  Deep Yellow are the owners of the Mulga Rock uraniu...

We are mobilising! from 2023-11-25T10:00

On today's program, we hear from 3 fantastic community organisers about the work of demilitarisation, countering extractivism and building for peace, justice and the elimination of weapons of mass ...

Renewable, not Radioactive: global call for effective climate action from 2023-11-18T10:00

As we approach the CoP 28, United Nations Climate Change Conference that starts in Dubai on November 30, the nuclear industry continues to promote itself as climate friendly in a massive and well-f...

Speaking up for country at the BHP AGM from 2023-11-11T10:00

The 2023 AGM of BHP Group Limited was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, on Wednesday 1 November 2023.  Arabunna Elder Kevin Buzzacott prepared a stat...

Responsibility, Reparations and Repair from 2023-10-28T10:00

This week we bring you recordings from two public events on Collins Street Melbourne that are calling for justice and reparations for those directly impacted by industrial disasters.  On 15 Septemb...

Disrupt Sea Forces in November 2023 from 2023-10-21T10:00

Today we speak with Zelda Grimshaw from Wage Peace about the upcoming ‘Disrupt Sea Forces’ mobilisation that aims to disrupt the naval version of Land Forces, ‘Indo Pacific 2023’ at the Sydney Harb...

Black Smoke from 2023-10-14T10:00

On the 15th of October 1953, the first British Atomic test on mainland Australia was undertaken on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands, in the north west of South Australia. 70 ye...

Nuclear Free WA from 2023-09-30T10:00

Today on the program we will connect with co-convenors of the newly formed organisation'Nuclear Free WA', Mia Pepper and KA Garlick, who bring us updates on all things nuclear in Western Australia....

Protesting weapons in space from 2023-09-23T10:00

We're out on the streets again - this time at the Aerospace summit in Ōtautahi Christchurch where attendees were greeted with an unwelcome party. Protesters say the summit is a weapons expo by anot...

Radioactive Waste&Human Rights from 2023-09-16T10:00

Dr. Jim Green,  National Anti-nuclear Campaigner at Friends of the Earth, joins us to discuss the recent visit of UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics&Human Rights.  'Where the Australian Government see...

Japan - Don't dump on the Pacific! from 2023-08-26T10:00

On Thursday 24th August, 2023, Japan's TEPCO electric company began discharging radioactive waste water into the Pacific. The waste water comes from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which...

ALP National Conference Low-Down from 2023-08-19T09:00

On today’s Radioactive Show we travel to Meanjin, Brisbane, to hear direct from the nuclear free movement at the Australian Labor Party National Conference. We hear from Gem Romuld, national direct...

Barngarla Winners! from 2023-08-12T10:00

On Thursday 10 August, Resources Minister Madeleine King announced that the Federal Government will not be appealing the Federal Court's decision that quashed the declaration of the Napandee nuclea...

From the archives: Justice for downwinders from 2023-07-29T09:00

In one blinding moment in July 1945 on the white sand desert of New Mexico, humanity entered the nuclear age. Project Trinity was the first nuclear explosion, paving the way for the nuclear inciner...

Merri-bek Rally: No Subs, Spend Elsewhere! from 2023-07-22T09:00

On Saturday 15 July there was a Merri-bek community rally gathering on Sydney Rd, Brunswick, around the message of ‘no nuclear submarines, fund essential services and real climate action.” The rall...

Repeat: NAIDOC Heal Country 2021 from 2023-07-15T09:00

A special 2021 NAIDOC week Heal Country edition of the Radioactive Show that we have chosen to re-play. Features Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and Vicky Abdullah, all speaking ...

Wasted! Global nuclear weapons spending from 2023-06-24T10:00

On 12 June, 2023 the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons released the report"Wasted: 2022 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending", showing that global spending on nuclear weapons increased i...

Yeelirrie 50 years book launch in Melbourne from 2023-06-20T06:30

Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Free campaigner from the Australian Conservation Foundation speaks with Asha from The New International Bookshop about the release of ‘Yeelirrie 50 years of resistance’ - a co...

World Oceans Day from 2023-06-10T10:00

On today’s show we’ll be looking a nuclear, peace and energy issues related to the oceans for World Oceans Day - 8 June.We speak with Dr. Jim Green Friends of the Earth Australia’s National Anti-nu...

Not Port Kembla, Not Anywhere! from 2023-05-27T09:00

On May 6 thousands gathered on the streets of Port Kembla, on Dharawal Country in Wollongong, to say no to a proposal that Port Kembla harbours the future Australian nuclear submarines. I speak to ...

Stop AUKUS WA from 2023-05-20T10:00

In March this year the Australian Government'Defence'department announced that Western Australia will be at the forefront of Australia’s'AUKUS Pathway', with more frequent port visits by nuclear-po...

Senator Jordon Steele-John on AUKUS from 2023-04-29T10:00

It’s been 18 months since the leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, announced the AUKUS deal, which includes an agreement that the US and the UK will assist Australia in ...

AUKUS: Truth not War from 2023-03-25T10:00

This week, to further discuss the  AUKUS submarine deal, we are joined by Vince Scappatura who teaches Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University.  He is an active member of the I...

AUKUS, military and Government links from 2023-03-18T10:00

On March 8 details of the AUKUS agreement revealed the Federal Government's plans to spend a shocking $368 billion on nuclear submarines as the centrepiece of the AUKUS deal that was signed by Aust...

Scientists on the Fukushima waste water issue (part 2) from 2023-03-11T10:00

March 11 2023 marks the 12th anniversary of the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that caused the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This year, Tokyo Electric Power (or Tepc...

A big year for ICAN: Sign the Treaty! from 2023-02-25T10:00

Featuring a conversation with three organisers from ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Gem Romuld, Jemila Rushton and Jessie Boylan. We speak about the importance of liste...

Yeelirrie 50 years of resistance&national nuclear updates from 2023-02-18T10:00

Today we speak with Dr. Jim Green, National Anti-nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia and Mia Pepper from the Conservation Council of Western Australia about what's happening with...

Scientists on the Fukushima waste water issue (part 1) from 2023-02-11T10:00

March 11 2023 marks the 12th anniversary of the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that caused the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This year, Tokyo Electric Power (or Tepc...

Proposed gas projects in Western Australia from 2023-01-28T10:00

This week we take a further look at proposed gas projects for Western Australia and repression faced by activists working to stop them.  The McGowan state government have announced a move to legisl...

AUKUS - perspectives from the US, UK and Australia from 2022-12-17T10:00

In this show, we are doing a deep dive into the AUKUS deal from the perspective of peace and anti nuclear activists from each of the AUKUS states - Australia, the UK and the US. Speakers include Br...

Waddananggu - The Talking from 2022-12-10T10:00

For Human Rights Day we're joined by Gurridyula Gaba Wunggu, Wangan&Jagalingou Traditional Custodian about Waddananggu.  Translated as'The Talking', Waddananggu is a stone Bora ring and ceremonial ...

Indigenous voices at COP27 from 2022-11-19T10:00

This show includes interviews with Indigneous leaders attending the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties or COP27 which happened from Nov 6 to the 18th, 2022,...

Never Mine Jabiluka from 2022-10-29T10:00

 From Jabiru on the lands of the Mirrar, we’re joined by Justin O’Brien, CEO of Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, whom he has been working closely with for over 20 years. He first connected with t...

Working towards a world without nukes: the Kiribati perspective from 2022-10-29T10:00

Today’s show is our second featuring audio from a panel discussion marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, which was held on September 26th. The online panel was...

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons from 2022-10-15T10:00

Today’s show features audio from a panel discussion marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, which was on September 26th. The online panel was organised by Revers...

Ka tū kotahi tātou - Solidarity with Muslim community in Christchurch from 2022-09-24T10:00

In this show, I take you onto the streets of Ōtautahi Christchurch in Aotearoa New Zealand, to join in a protest against white supremacy and the far right. Christchurch, of course, has became a nam...

Nuclear threats and rocket tests from 2022-09-17T10:00

With the war in Ukraine threatening nuclear power plants, on this week’s show, we talk to Friends of the Earths Dr Jim Green about threats, safeguards and what it means for the nuclear industry in ...

Lorraine Rekmans on uranium mining on First Nations land in Canada from 2022-08-27T10:00

This show features a talk by Lorraine Rekmans, member of the Serpent River First Nation and president of the Green Party of Canada. She speaks about working conditions in the uranium mining industr...

Defence in STEM Education from 2022-08-27T09:00

 A discussion with Lil Barto and Margie Pestorius from Wage Peace. We discuss with Lil Barto an action on August 15, when around 20 people from Meanjin disrupted a STEM Education and Defence confer...

No More Hiroshimas - Hiroshima Day Peace Rally from 2022-08-13T10:00

 On this show we present some of the speakers from the recent Hiroshima Day Peace Rally held in Naarm, or Melbourne.In the past, these events focussed on remembering the bombing of hiroshima on the...

BHP’s insatiable thirst: The Water Supply Project from 2022-07-23T10:00

 BHP has been sucking up to 42 million litres of water per day out of the Great Artesian Basin for its giant Olympic Dam underground copper and uranium mine since 1988. There is increasing awarenes...

Radioactive Show - Nuclear Power, No Thanks! from 2022-07-16T10:00

This week we discuss nuclear power (again), as it seems to be an issue that—despite everything that is stacked against it—keeps on returning. The CSIRO have published their annual GenCost report, w...

Fighting for Country - A conversation between two warriors from 2022-06-25T10:00

On this show, we present an interview between Uncle Robbie Thorpe and nuclear-free superstar Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine.Aunty Sue is well known to radioactive show listeners because of her tireles...

South Australia's Nuclear History from 2022-06-11T10:00

In this show, I interview Jess Urwin, a phd student from ANU, who is researching South Australia’s nuclear history. Jess’s work highlights a nuclear history that started before 1945, and what we th...

Mulga Rock and election updates from 2022-05-29T10:00

Update from Mia Pepper from the Conservation Council of WA about the proposed uranium mine in Western Australia at Mulga Rock, and the proposed merger between Vimy Resources and Deep Yellow. After ...

May Day 2022 - Imperialism, AUKUS and Solidarity from 2022-05-21T10:00

 Interviews and speeches from May Day 2022 in Naarm (Melbourne). Shirley Winton from the Spirit of Eureka sets the context for the day, explaining the history and importance of the struggle against...

ICAN: Take action from 2022-05-21T09:00

There's a lot to hear about from ICAN- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons organisers, Gem Romuld and Jemila Rushton. We hear the latest about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear...

End Nuclear Madness - Stop Lockheed Martin from 2022-04-30T10:00

This weeks show we take to the streets to hear voices and sounds from two rallies in Narrm-Melbourne this week. We'll hear voices from a rally for a nuclear free future on the steps of Victorian pa...

Chernobyl Under Russian Occupation from 2022-04-23T10:00

Resisting Tambrauw Military Base in West Papua from 2022-04-16T10:00

Today on the show we speak with Yohanis Mambrasar, lawyer and resident of Tambrauw, West Papua about the community campaign against the construction of a new military base, the 1810 Tambrauw Kodim,...

People Not Profit: WA uranium update and Student Strike for Climate from 2022-03-26T10:00

Today, we hear from Upurli Upurli Nguratja Traditional Owner woman Maria Barton and Nuclear-free campaigner Mia Pepper speaking about the VIMY Resources Mulga Rock uranium proposal for an online fo...

Nuclear threats of the war in Ukraine from 2022-03-19T10:00

Today we are turning to the war in Ukraine and in particular the manifold nuclear threats arising from this conflict. To explore these issues are two experts in their fields, Dr Jim Green, national...

Nuclear power for Australia? from 2022-03-12T10:00

In this show, we hear from Dr Jim Green, nuclear campaigner for Friends of the Earth Australia and a speaker at the recent Sustainable living festival webinar - Nuclear power for Australia? He spok...

The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission in SA from 2022-03-07T00:59:09.480025

Nuclear-free campaigners Dr.Jim Green (Friends of the Earth and WISE International) and Karina Lester (Yankunytjatjara and Aboriginal Language Worker with Uni of SA) join the show this week to take...

WIPP Radioactive Release Part 2 from 2022-03-07T00:59:09.469786

This week on the Radioactive Show we return to hear the second half of an interview with Don Hancock (Southwest Research and Information Centre, New Mexico). He speaks about the ongoing dangers fro...

Leave it in the permafrost! Stopping uranium in Greenland and Canada. from 2022-03-07T00:59:09.370231

Greenland overturned a ban on uranium mining in a controversial parliamentary vote in 2013, and an Australian company has been leading the charge by pursuing a uranium mine project at Kvanefjeld. S...

Resisting AUKUS&War on China - A conversation with Noam Chomsky from 2022-02-19T10:00

A webinar, entitled ‘Resisting AUKUS and War on China’ and hosted by Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition (SAAC), was held on February 12, 2022.  Facilitated by David Brophy from SAAC, the webinar featured:...

No QUAD, No AUKUS! from 2022-02-12T10:00

In this show, we go out on the streets to protest the QUAD meeting - where the US secreaty of state and foreign ministers from Japan, India and Australia met in Naarm/ Melbourne to further develop ...

Road to a nuclear free future - Ban School #5 from 2021-11-27T10:00

The 5th and last session of ICAN’s Ban School is called Road to a nuclear free future, and includes speakers taking action to create a world free from nuclear weapons - Joey Tau from Youngsolwara a...

The Wrong Conditions: Mulga Rock and Lynas updates from 2021-11-20T10:00

Sometimes licence conditions for project approvals can cause damage. On this radioactive show, we look at the damage Vimy Resources is causing in their attempt to get approval to mine uranium at Mu...

Defence in schools from 2021-10-30T10:00

This Radioactive Show explores the'partnerships'between defence companies and schools.  Featuring interviews with Elise West, Executive officer of Medical Association for Prevention of War, who wil...

AUKUS&nuclear submarines from 2021-10-23T10:00

For the United Nations Disarmament Week 24-30 October we bring you discussions about the AUKUS military pact between Australia, the US and UK announced on 16 September, the threats posed to the reg...

COP 26 Climate Conference: military emissions&nuclear no solution from 2021-10-16T10:00

Ahead of the COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland from November 1-12 we speak with Mike Smith from the Australians For War Powers Reform campaign about the importance of including milita...

Maralinga still radioactive: Britain's atomic test legacy from 2021-09-25T10:00

September 27 marks the anniversary of the first of the British atomic tests on the mainland that began at Maralinga in 1955.  On this show we look at the cultural, environmental and toxic legacy le...

Nuclear submarines : A threat to peace and nuclear non-proliferation from 2021-09-18T10:00

In the lead up to International Peace Day on the 21st September we’ll be looking at the latest threat to peace and nuclear non-proliferation in the region with the Morrison-led conservative governm...

No nuclear waste in the Flinders Ranges: Greg Bannon from 2021-09-11T10:00

In this show, Rad show producer Micheala Stubbs interviews Greg Bannon, member of FLAG, the Flinders Local Action Group, who were part of the successful campaign to stop a nuclear waste dump propos...

Stop Adani and Talsiman Sabre updates from 2021-08-19T18:30

On today’s Radioactive Show we turn our focus to QLD where we speak with Miree LeRoy about some recent activities in the campaign to stop Adani’s Carmichael mine. Currently under construction on Wa...

Kimba Waste Dump and Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty updates from 2021-08-14T10:00

Marisa interviewed Dr.Jim Green National Anti-nuclear Campaigner for Friends of the Earth about keeping the pressure on, to protect the Kimba from a nuclear waste dump.Marisa then Interviewed David...

West Side Story - Keeping it in the ground from 2021-07-31T10:00

On this episode KA Garlick from Conservation Council WA gives an update on uranium mining, the lack of available finance for the industry and talks about the importance of shareholder activism. 

Ban school! All about the ban from 2021-07-24T10:00

Class is in session for ICAN's Ban School, a series of classes covering everything you need to know about United Nations'Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. In class 1, you'll hear Tim Wr...

Radioactive Show - Mirarr Land Handback from 2021-07-17T10:00

On Today’s show we celebrate with Mirarr Traditional owners about the returning of their land after a four-decades long fight for traditional ownership at Jabiru, within the World-Heritage listed K...

Naidoc week: Heal Country from 2021-07-10T10:00

It’s Naidoc week, and the theme of ‘Heal Country’ resonates strongly through our radioactive Shows. For todays show I’ve looked back into our archives and found some powerful interview clips to sha...

Monitoring radiation worldwide with citizen science from 2021-06-12T10:00

An interview between Joi Iti, Sean Bonner and Pieter Franken, the co-founders of Safecast, a citizen science organisation that formed in response to Fukushima nuclear disaster. At the time of the d...

Andy Paine and Uncle Kevin from Disrupt Land Forces in Meanjin from 2021-05-29T10:00

 We speak to Andy Paine and Uncle Kevin Buzzacott about the Disrupt Land Forces festival currently taking place in Meanjin, Brisbane. https://disruptlandforces.org/

Military Spending in the Federal Budget 2021 from 2021-05-22T10:00

This week we take a look at the Federal Budget allocation for Defence and Military spending with renegade activist and presenter of A Friday Rave Jacob Grech.To read more about the Victorian Govern...

Palestinian resistance to settler colonial violence in Sheikh Jarrah from 2021-05-15T10:00

Today is a special Nakba Day show, highlighting the recent struggle of Palestinians in Jerusalem against displacement and the settler colonial violence of the Israeli state. I’ll share with you a t...

US-Australia: An Unhealthy Reliance from 2021-04-24T10:00

Features audio from series of Inependent and Peaceful Australia Network webinars on Australia and US alliance.We’ll hear an introduction by Kelly Tranter followed by a speech from Vince Scappatura,...

Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty Update and Rocket testing on Kokatha Mula country from 2021-04-10T10:00

Don’t dump contaminated water - World Water Day from 2021-03-20T10:00

  On this Radioactive Show, to coincide with World Water Day, Ayumi Fukakusa, the Climate Change and Energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Japan talks about the proposal to release radioactive ...

Australian Uranium Fuelled Fukushima - 10 years on from 2021-03-13T10:00

On this show, we hear a detailed description of how the disaster unfolded by Dr Philip White, who is an expert in Japanese nuclear power policy and was living in Tokyo at the time of the disaster. ...

Maralinga to Mulga Rock - part two from 2021-02-27T10:00

Anangu Spinifex woman, Debbie Carmody, shares the story of the her people’s displacement after the nuclear weapons testing at Maralinga in South Australia. Debbie is a Traditional Owner of Mulga Ro...

Maralinga to Mulga Rock - part one from 2021-02-20T10:00

Anangu Spinifex woman, Debbie Carmody, shares the story of the her people’s displacement after the nuclear weapons testing at Maralinga in South Australia. Debbie is a Traditional Owner of Mulga Ro...

Australian Military Aid to the Philippines and the Tumandok Massacre from 2021-02-13T10:00

 On December 30, 2020, in a joint police and military operation, Tumandok indigenous leaders were tortured and shot in their homes. 16 others were arrested. Some were over 70 years old. These Tuman...

Fighting for Country and Culture - Invasion Day 2021 from 2021-01-30T10:00

On this episode of the Radioactive show, we bring you recordings from some speeches and interviews from Invasion Day.  We hear from Celeste Liddle and Tish King in Naarm, or so-called melbourne, Re...

Shining a spotlight on Australia's unabated defence spending (REPEAT) from 2020-12-26T10:00

 This episode of the Radioactive Show is a repeat of a show that originally went to air in August 2020. It was produced by Emma Crunch and features interviews with two organisers for peace, Annette...

IPAN People’s Inquiry: Exploring the case for an Independent and Peaceful Australia from 2020-12-12T10:00

Independent and Peaceful Australia, or IPAN, advocate for an Australia free of foreign military bases and free of interventions by other foreign governments, corporations or vested interests that s...

Nuclear free journey across remote Queensland from 2020-11-28T10:00

In this show, I speak with Del Cuddihy and Valerie Joy from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in Brisbane, who travelled over 3000 kms via plane, train and bus across r...

A plea for nuclear disarmament from 2020-11-21T10:00

On this week’s program we speak to Smriti Keshari, who is an Indian-American director and artist whose work covers a spectrum of the moving image from traditional, linear filmmaking to art installa...

Celebrating Tjiwarl women fighting to protect country (repeat) from 2020-11-14T10:00

Repeat show: Hear from Tjiwarl woman, Vicki Abdullah who was one of the recipients of this years Australian Conservation Foundation's 2019 Rawlinson award winner with her two aunties, Shirley and L...

Expanding military powers at home from 2020-10-24T10:00

The Defence Legislation Amendment (Enhancement of Defence Force Response to Emergencies) Bill 2020 has had little media coverage despite concerns the bill will erode human rights and vastly expand ...

Nuclear Fantasy: Highlights from Yellowcake Country webinar from 2020-10-17T10:00

On this weeks episode listen to highlights from the recent Yellowcake Country webinar - Don't Nuke the Climate. An excellent panel of speakers to hear about why nuclear power is not the answer to c...

Cancel RIMPAC! Demilitarise the Pacific from 2020-10-10T10:00

 RIMPAC, the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, is the world's largest international maritime warfare exercise. There is a strong movement to stop RIMPAC, even in lockdown.  On today’s show, we hear from...

Catch up with nuclear free legends: Aunty Sue and Uncle Kevin from 2020-09-26T10:00

We catch up with stalwart legends of the nuclear free movement, honorary presidents of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, Arabana man Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and Kokatha Mula woman, Aunty Sue Cole...

Barry Wakelin: from Canberra to the frontline from 2020-09-12T10:00

Barry Wakelin shares his story about how the government’s attempt to put a radioactive waste dump in his community made him a de-liberalised Liberal and how the site selection process “makes the sp...

Shining the spotlight on Australia's unabated defence spending from 2020-08-29T10:00

Today’s show features interviews with two organisers for peace, Annette Brownlie of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), and Margie Beavis from the Medical Association for the Pre...

The Rainbow Warrior Incident from 2020-08-22T10:00

On the 10th of July 1985, Greenpeace flagship protest vessel - the Rainbow Warrior - was bombed by French government agents in Auckland. Fernando Pereira, a Greenpeace photographer on board at the ...

Uranium and Nuclear Weapons part 1 from 2020-08-15T10:00

Listen to the highlights from the excellent Yellowcake Country webinar - uranium and nuclear weapons. Listen to the update on the nuclear free WA campaign by KA Garlick and then tune into Internati...

Beyond Trinity - 75 years on from 2020-07-25T10:00

This Rad Show includes speakers from a panel discussion organised by ICAN commemorating the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion, code-named “Trinity”, honouring the lives and struggles ...

South Australia: Too Good to Waste! from 2020-07-18T10:00

On this weeks show, listen to the highlights from the recent webinar, SA: Too Good to Waste. You'll hear from Jason Bilney, Barngarla Aboriginal Determination Corporation, Vivianne McKenzie, Adnyam...

What are killer robots? from 2020-06-27T10:00

So what are killers robots? And what work is being done to challenge their use? To find out, Rad Show host AC spoke with Professor Michael Winikoff, AI expert from Aotearoa New Zealand and Matilda ...

Where does Australian uranium go? from 2020-06-20T10:00

On this week's Radioactive Show, you will hear from Taiwan activist Shi Ting and Tomohiro Matsuoka from Japan, on the challenges and long term impacts their countries face from Australian uranium. ...

Expansion of Olympic Dam: Not worth the risks from 2020-06-13T10:00

 BHP is once again proposing to expand its operations at Olympic Dam in South Australia.  If approved, the expansion would increase BHP’s already significant impacts on land, water, culture and wil...

Time to focus on Healthcare not Warfare from 2020-05-30T10:00

On this weeks episode of the Radioactive Show, listen to Annette Brownlie, chairperson of the Independent and Peaceful Australian Network and Dr Sue Wareham, President of the Medical Association fo...

People-centric Development in India - We are unstoppable, another world is possible! from 2020-05-23T10:00

On this episode of the Radioactive Show, we hear from Indian social activist Dr Vaishaili Patel about resistance to compulsory land acquisition for developments such as nuclear power reactors and t...

Divest, Demilitarise and Disarm: In Conversation with Ray Acheson from 2020-05-16T10:00

Ray Acheson is the Director of Reaching Critical Will, the Disarmament programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. In the show we dive into her recent article ‘COVID-19: Di...

Nuclear waste dump and nuclear weapons ban updates: Campaigning in times of COVID-19 from 2020-04-25T10:00

In this episode we hear from long term anti-nukes activist Sister Michele Madigan to discuss her recent article in Eureka street'Fight against nuclear waste no over yet'and developments on the Barn...

Peace with Earth: A conversation with Tiokasin Ghosthorse from 2020-04-18T10:00

Tiokasin Ghosthorse is member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota and speaks with the Radioactive Show about growing up on land that became a designated nuclear sacrifice zone, the ...

Yeelirrie, dodgy political interference! from 2020-04-11T10:00

On this weeks show you will hear the highlights from the recent webinar ~ Yeelirrie, a case for environmental law reform. You'll hear from Ruby Hamilton a solicitor from the Environmental Defenders...

Nuclear submarines for Australia? from 2020-03-28T10:00

On this week's Rad show, Retired UK navy commander turned antinuclear campaigner Robert Green discusses a push to convince the Australian government to invest in nuclear submarines.

Philippines anti-nuclear resistence from 2020-03-21T10:00

Filipino antinuclear activists Roland G. Simbulan and DJ Janier discuss the struggle against nuclear power in the Philippines.Recorded at the No Nukes Asia Forum in Taiwan in September 2019. A rece...

Nuclear Remembering from 2020-03-14T10:00

On the 9th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster,  we speak with Dr.Jim Green (Friends of the Earth Australia)  about'Forgetting Fukushima'  - the ways in which the environmental and social impacts...

Global and Local Action: Updates from ICAN and WA from 2020-02-29T10:00

We speak with Gem Romuld, the Australian Director for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons about their plans for the year and how you can help build pressure for Australia to sign ...

100 Seconds to Midnight from 2020-02-22T10:00

On January 23, 2020, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the hand of the Doomsday clock to 100 seconds to midnight – the closest it has ever been.  The reasons:  a worsening nuclear threat, lac...

Turkey - anti nukes challenges in an authoritarian state from 2020-02-15T10:00

In this episode we hear from Pinar Demircan - a Turkish anti nukes activist on issues and challenges the Turkish anti-nukes movement faces in the current political climate.

First Nations calls to action from 2020-01-25T10:00

In the midst of devastating fires across the land and as we lead up to Invasion Day we bring you a calls to action from First Nations activists.  First up is a conversation between Arabunna elder a...

Highlights of 2019 from 2019-12-21T10:00

We bring you some highlights of our 2019 shows. Featuring a clip from a show of all the Radioactive Show producers. Crunch interviews Katherine Peat of Network Waitangi Otautahi, Lavanya recording ...

Waste dumps in two continents - Yucca Mountain USA and Australian update from 2019-12-14T10:00

On this radioactive show, we hear the presentation that Dr Ann-Elise Lewallen -Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, at the University of California in Santa Barbara - g...

The Power Of Nuclear Resistance from 2019-11-30T10:00

We hear from Maria Rost Rublee (Monash University) and Dimity Hawkins (ICAN) on the history and power of nuclear activism and resistance in Australia and beyond.Music: Rise - Solange

Justice for Kumanjayi Walker, Solidarity from Melbourne from 2019-11-23T10:00

Young Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker, was shot at his family home and  died while in police custody on Saturday November 10th, 2019, in Yuendumu a community 300km north west of Alice Springs. A Nort...

Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting - SA waste dump from 2019-11-16T10:00

Voices, songs, poems from SA recorded at the 2019 Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting in the Flinders Ranges. We hear from Adnyamathanha women Enice Marsh, Vivianne McKenzie and Heather Stewar...

Bladerunner was set in November 2019 from 2019-10-26T10:00

The exhibition, ‘Bladerunner was set in November 2019’, was inspired by a group trip in August 2019, of seven activists/artists/friends, to Kokatha, Anangu and Maralinga Tjuratja lands in South Aus...

On ground reports from Yeelirrie from 2019-10-19T10:00

Earlier this month the Radioactive team travelled to Yeelirrie in WA to hear from people and communities affected by Cameco’s proposed uranium mine. I interviewed locals Marilyn and Colin  - owners...

Anti-nuclear Solidarity from 2019-10-12T10:00

Interviews taken at Yeelirrie Solidarity Camp facilitated by Ban Uranium Mining Permanently collective on Tjirwal country.Sue Coleman Haseldine speaks of her lived experience and why solidarity acr...

First nations rights and colonising practices by the nuclear industry from 2019-09-28T10:00

On today’s show we speak to Dr Jillian Marsh, Adnyamathanha woman and lecturer in Aboriginal studies at Latrobe University.  Jillian has recently written an article with Dr Jim Green that explores ...

We will continue to fight to stop Yeelirrie! from 2019-08-31T10:00

On this weeks Radioactive Show, you will hear the recordings taken over last weekend at the 2019 WA State Labor Conference in which the WA nuclear free campaign held a seminar hosted by the State S...

Groundhog Day: Reliving the nuclear power debate and Australian troops headed to the Middle East from 2019-08-24T10:00

On this edition of the Radioactive Show we speak with Dr.Jim Green, national Anti-nuclear Campaigner with Friends of the Earth about the recently announced nuclear inquiries in Victoria, NSW and fe...

Building anti-militarism across borders from 2019-08-17T10:00

I catch up with Annette Brownlie, chair of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network, about their recent IPAN conference held in Darwin. Followed by a discussion with Lina Koleilat, a Lebanese...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day 2019 from 2019-08-10T10:00

In this show we commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day by listening speeches by nuclear survivors Setsuko Thurlow and Sue Coleman Haseldine. We also bring you a Hiroshima Day speech by Dimity Hawki...

Barngarla court outcome explained: Justice vs Law from 2019-07-27T10:00

On Friday 12 July 2019 Justice White handed down his ruling that the exclusion of Barngarla Native Title holders who do not live in the Kimba District from participating in a ballot to gauge commun...

Looking for justice downwind of Trinity from 2019-07-20T10:00

In one blinding moment in July 1945 on the white sand desert of New Mexico, humanity entered the nuclear age. Project Trinity was the first nuclear explosion, paving the way for the nuclear inciner...

Don't Bank On The Bomb Report from 2019-07-13T10:00

In this episode we bring you an interrview with Maaike Beenes, The Senior Programme Officer for Humanitarian Disarmament at PAX in Netherlands who talks to us about the Don't Bank on The Bomb repor...

No to Olympic Dam expansion - What about the birds? from 2019-06-29T10:00

Mining giant BHP wants to expand its operations at Olympic Dam in South Australia. Again. On this week’s show we speak to independent environmental campaigner and a person with a deep understanding...

Independent and Peaceful Australia Network Updates from 2019-06-22T10:00

In this episode we speak to Shirley WInton and Annette Brownlie from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN).Shirley speaks about the Genoa dock strike, where unions and workers are r...

After March 15: Tackling Islamophobia across the Tasman from 2019-06-15T10:00

A second Radioactive Show reflecting on the March 15th Terror attack on two mosques in Ōtautahi/Christchurch. Featuring a discussion with Adel Salman, Vice President of the Islamic Council of Victo...

Beyond the Federal Election - Post Election Nuclear Reflections from 2019-05-25T10:00

The result of the federal election was not what many had hoped for. This week, we speak to the Australian conservation Foundation’s Nuclear free campaigner Dave sweeney about what the results of th...

After March 15: Voices from the Muslim community in Ōtautahi from 2019-05-18T10:00

We hear from members of the Muslim community in Ōtautahi, Christchurch, in the wake of the March 15 terror attacks in two mosques. Asha Abdi, is a young person who has grown up attending the Al Noo...

Dirty Mine Dirty Politics from 2019-05-11T10:00

The highly contested Adani Carmichael mine proposal received approval for their groundwater management plan on the eve of the federal election being called. Today on the Radioactive Show we bring y...

Cleaning up a toxic legacy - Rehabilitation of Ranger Uranium Mine from 2019-04-27T10:00

On this Radioactive Show we hear from Kirsten Blair from The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation about the efforts to rehabilitate Ranger uranium mine and the plan for a post-uranium mining future in...

Think Global Act Local : Honouring ICAN initiators in Preston from 2019-04-20T10:00

On Tuesday 16th April, the Darebin Council launched a mural at the Preston Library to honour two Preston-based co-founders of the Nobel Peace Prize winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear...

Pacific Must Be Free - Keeping atomic test survivor stories alive from 2019-04-13T10:00

On this show we look at the legacy of atomic testing and pay tribute to Polynesian trade unionist Roland Oldham who passed away last month.  Roland was the President of Moruroa eTatou, a trade unio...

Keeping Western Australia Uranium Free from 2019-03-30T10:00

On this show we hear recordings from the Keep Western Australia Uranium Free public meeting held at Friends of the Earth on 13 March 2019. We hear an overview of the campaign to keep uranium in the...

The MUA and the nuclear free campaign - what an ally! from 2019-02-23T10:00

On this Radioactive Show we look at the ongoing role and important contributions of the Maritime Union of Australia in the nuclear and peace campaigns in this country.  We’ll hear from Jamie Newlyn...

US - Russia Nuclear Forces Treaty ends from 2019-02-16T10:00

In 1987, the signing of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty between US and Russia, was pivotal in ending the Cold War and the arms race that had seen a massive build up of nuclear weapons ...

ALP commits to signing the Ban Treaty from 2019-01-19T10:00

A show exploring the ALP's adoption of a new policy platform, commiting them to Australia's signing and ratification of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, if elected in 2019. Feat...

ATLA says NO - complaint lodged with Human Rights Commission from 2018-12-22T10:00

On this show we hear recordings from the press conference ATLA, the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association, held on Tuesday 18th December 2018 about the formal complaint they lodged with the H...

Celebrating 10 years of keeping WA uranium in the ground! from 2018-11-24T10:00

Over in Western Australia, the nucelar free campaign are celebrating 10 years since former Premier Colin Barnett lifted the ban on uranium mining in the State.  10 years ago, uranium was promoted a...

Queers against the nuclear industry from 2018-11-17T10:00

Why is there so much opposition from queer people and their communities to the nuclear industry? A show inspired by artist Jessie Boylan's recent essay,'This Is Not Nowhere', about Queer resistance...

Disrupt IMARC Community Rally from 2018-11-10T10:00

Today we head out onto the streets to hear voices from the community rally at the opening of the International Mining and Resources Conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre on Tuesday 30th Oct...

Mirarr Stand Strong - 20th Anniversary of the Jabiluka Blockade from 2018-10-27T10:00

Twenty years ago the Mirarr traditional owners of parts of Kakadu and Western Arnhem land invited protestors to stand with them on country against the Jabiluka mine at the peak of a 10 year long ca...

Community Says No to Uranium Mine and Waste Dump Proposals in WA from 2018-10-20T10:00

On this Radioactive Show we hear from the Leonora Public Meeting held on Wongatha country, that was held after this years Walkatjurra Walkabout in the Goldfields of Western Australia. The public me...

African Americans against the bomb from 2018-10-13T10:00

This show is about the history of African American resistance to nuclear weapons. Professor Vincent Intondi isDirector of the Institute for Race, Justice, and Civic Engagement in Maryland in the US...

Black Mist Burnt Country from 2018-09-29T10:00

On this Radioactive Show we hear about the Black Mist Burnt Country art exhibition and symposium which was organised by Burrinja Cultural Centre. The symposium was held on Saturday 9th September in...

First Nations communities'struggle against uranium mining in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada from 2018-09-22T10:00

On this show I speak with Candyce Paul. Candyce is a mother, a grandmother, an educator, and a protector - not an environmentalist nor activist - responding to a serious threat to ALL future genera...

Acting Up with Frontline Action on Coal from 2018-09-15T10:00

Activists have gathered in Newcastle to push for an end to coal and calling for the Governments to radically tackle this dire problem. They're willing to risk arrest and doing lots of dishes....

Walk the Bridge - Dump the Dump from 2018-08-25T10:00

Recordings form the'Walk The Walk - Dump the Dump'Rally and March in Port Augusta on Sunday 19th August.Featuring Vivienne, Regina and Heather McKenzie - Adnyamathanha, Linda and Harry Dare - Barna...

Process not Postcode from 2018-08-18T10:00

I’m Michaela and one todays program we’ll be getting an update on the proposed nuclear waste dump in south Australia as the campaign continues to heat up with legal action by the Barngala tradition...

Talisman Sabre and the Australian anti-war movement from 2018-08-11T10:00

A brief analysis of the Australian anti-war movement and what might need to happen to build a movement to curb war and promote environmental sustainability.

Communities Have Their Say - Waste Dump Senate Hearings from 2018-07-28T10:00

Public hearings were held in early july in Kimba and Hawker as part of the senate inquiry giving communities an opportunity to have their say about flawed site selection process for the waste dump....

Strong Grandmothers of the Central Desert Speak Up from 2018-07-21T10:00

6 members of the Strong Grandmothers of the Central Desert Region travelled to Naarm (Melbourne) from Mparntwe on Arrente Country (Alice Springs and the central desert region), to share their stori...

SOS - Strong culture, strong resistence from 2018-07-14T10:00

On this show, I'd like to give you a taste of some of the talks from the Students of Sustainability conference held in Narrm Melbourne that started in the first weekend of July.Includes a talk by U...

Lucas Heights Reactor Shutdown from 2018-06-30T10:00

On this show, we hear about nuclear medicine and the recent shutdown of ANSTO’s Lucas Heights nuclear reactor.  We speak to Dr Margaret Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War...

Nuclear News from the West from 2018-06-23T10:00

On this weeks show, listen to the campaign to stop uranium mining in Western Australia, updates on recent news of the national radioactive waste dump PLAN B and wher the Supreme Court of Appeals to...

Sorry Day 2018: Grandmothers Against Removals from 2018-05-26T10:00

21 years since the Bringing Them Home report was tabled in parliament, we mark Sorry Day by featuring Aunty Hazel Collins who initiated the group Grandmothers Against Removals (GMAR) in 2014.  The ...

Disarm our Universities from 2018-05-19T10:00

Melbourne University along with RMIT are trying to build Australia's largest arms manufacturer on the site of the Women's Hospital in Melbourne.Radioactive talks to Lucy Turton and Callum Simpson f...

What's the Buzz? Uncle Kevin Buzzacott reflects on fighting the nuclear industry from 2018-05-12T10:00

On this week’s radioactive show we hear from Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna elder and staunch fighter against the uranium industry on his land. We also hear from Cat Beaton from Conservation SA wh...

Keep Bre Nuke Free! from 2018-04-28T10:00

No Bunda Bunda on Ngemba LandWe learn about the fight to stop the nomination for the radioactive waste dump at Brewarrina being approved. Brewarrina is a small town in north west NSW. It is home to...

Radioactive Exposure Tour SA 2018 - Part 1 from 2018-04-21T10:00

Come along for a taste of the 2018 Radioactive Exposure Tour of South Australia, which happened over Easter and in the first week of April. On the show, which is part one of two, you'll hear from U...

Banning the Bomb: From Adnyamathanha Country to the UN from 2018-04-14T10:00

Hear Tim Wright, from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and Ray Acheson, of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and ICAN, speaking to the Radioactive Expos...

Senator Rex Patrick on the Waste Dump Senate Inquiry from 2018-03-24T10:00

On  6 February 2018, the federal Senate referred an inquiry into the selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia for inquiry and report by 14 August 20...

Peter Murnane- Plowshare Activist from 2018-03-17T10:00

Peter recalls the Waihopai Plowshare action that successfully disrupted US war making in Iraq- from central Aotearoa.

Anti war activism across three generations from 2018-03-10T10:00

3 speakers about different eras and wars that Australia has been involved in. We hear from Jenny Grounds about the culture of war in our modern day society, Bob Muntz reflects on being a draft resi...

No Bundabunda on Ngemba Land from 2018-02-24T10:00

History of the Radioactive Exposure Tour from 2018-02-17T10:00

On this show we delve deep into the rad show archives to learn more about the history of the Radioactive Exposure Tour. The first Radioactive Exposure tour happened in 1983, as part of Rox Stop, wh...

Connection to Country : Fukushima to Kintyre from 2018-02-10T10:00

Connection to Country : Fukushima to KintyreOn this weeks show we hear the strong testimony from Kenichi Hasegawa, a Fukushima dairy farmer who’s land, farm, life and community has been destroyed f...

Anti Nuclear Activity in 2017 Campaign Wrap&Looking into the Next Year from 2017-12-23T10:00

ANTI NUCLEAR ACTIVITY IN 2017 CAMPAIGN WRAP UP : LOOKING INTO THE NEXT YEAROn this weeks Radioactive Show we will hear from some of Australia’s most dedicated and long time nuclear free campaigners...

Don’t Dump on SA Rally from 2017-12-16T10:00

On this week’s show, we listen to some of the speakers at the Don’t Dump on SA Rally, held on 2 December 2017 on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide. The rally brought together people from Ki...

Uranium on Trial - WA updates from Supreme Court Action from 2017-11-25T10:00

This weeks show is recorded on Whadjuk Noongar land, better known as Perth, WA about the Supreme Court action and Mulga Rock.  Piers Verstegen, Director from Conservation Council of WA talks about ...

Pine Gap on Trial from 2017-11-18T10:00

In 2016, six peace pilgrims trespassed onto Pine Gap in Central Australia. The United States uses Pine Gap to help kill people in illegal wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and many others. The Peace Pilgri...

A tribute to Dennis Banks: Walking for Land, Life and Peace. from 2017-11-11T10:00

This week we pay tribute to Dennis Banks, Ojibwa from Leech Lake, who dies on the 29th October at age 80.  He was an activist, educator and writer and co-founded the American Indian Movement in 196...

Uranium Mill Protest on Native American Land from 2017-10-28T10:00

This week’s show features recordings from the Ute Mountain Ute Native American protest against the White Mesa Uranium Mill on their land. Interviews with White Mesa Community Leaders Priscellna Rab...

20 Years of ANFA II: Muckaty and Beyond from 2017-10-21T10:00

Over the weekend of September 15-17, 2017, the 20th meeting of ANFA, the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, was held. This is the second show of recordings from that special gathering. Today's show ...

#warstartshere + ICAN Nobel Peace Prize from 2017-10-14T10:00

On this week's show, I share two interviews with peace activists who are out there charging the world.Like Gem Romuld, Outreach Coordinator with ICAN, the international campaign to abolish nuclear ...

20 years of ANFA, still going strong from 2017-09-30T10:00

On September 15-17th 2017 the 20th Australian Nuclear Free Alliance was held on Kaurna country in Adelaide, South Australia. 20 years of standing strong for country, working together and fighting u...

Drone warfare - the human cost from 2017-09-16T10:00

On this show, we present a talk by Alex Edney-Browne on the social and psychological effects of drone warfare. The talk was part of the IPAN conference held in Naarm Melbourne in second week of Sep...

We Say NO! 20 years of community resistance against nuclear waste from 2017-08-26T10:00

On Saturday 19th August, a special event was held bringing together people from the Irati Wanti, Muckaty and current campaigns against a National radioactive waste dump.  On this week’s radioactive...

WA walk and SA waste campaign updates from 2017-08-19T10:00

Today we speak with walk organiser Marcus Atkinson midway through the sixth annual Walkatjurra Walkabout, a one month walk from Wiluna to Leonora from August 4th – September 2nd.  Visit Nuclear Fre...

Uranium Free Czech Republic from 2017-08-12T10:00

This week’s radioactive show features a discussion between ACF’s Dave Sweeney and Czech energy consultant Olga Kalisova who works with non-governmental organization Calla - Association for Preserva...

Yami Lester tribute show and NY weapons ban from 2017-07-29T10:00

A tribute show to Yankunytjatjara elder and atomic test survivor, Yami Lester, who sadly passed away recently. We reflect on his ongoing fight for justice, for a nuclear free world and Aboriginal l...

Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance in Tennessee from 2017-07-22T10:00

This week we share an interview with Ralph Hutchison, coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance from Knoxville, Tennessee. Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance or OREPA works to o...

French Connection from 2017-07-15T10:00

This week we speak to an Australian activist and hear her first hand account of the campaign to stop a radioactive waste dump in France. We learn that that are quite a few radioactive parallels bet...

Voices from the Frontier Wars March from 2017-06-24T10:00

We hear from a few of the many people who travelled to the Frontier Wars March. The march took place on April 25th, 2017.

Clinton's Walk for Justice from 2017-06-17T10:00

Many listeners will have heard about Clinton Pryor, a Wajuk, Balardung, Kija and Yulparitja man from Western Australia who has been on a very long Walk For Justice since leaving Perth in September ...

30 years of Nuclear Free Aotearoa NZ from 2017-06-10T10:00

This June marks the 30th Anniversary of the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone Disarmament and Arms Control Act. Today's show features an interview originally recorded at Plains FM in Christchurch, in i...

Clean Up or Cover-up? Maralinga nuclear test sites from 2017-05-27T10:00

Mara Bonacci speaks with Geoff Williams from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency to get an his perspective from on-the-ground at the Australian Government clean up of Mara...

Frontier Wars March 2017 from 2017-05-20T10:00

The Frontier Wars March in Canberra has become an important event. The push to have the Australian War Memorial recognise the first and largest war on Australian soil as part of official Anzac Day ...

Chernobyl: 31 years on and the legacy remains from 2017-05-13T10:00

This Radioactive Show hear a Chernobyl Commemorative Show shared with us by Understorey, a Perth-based Radio show.We mark 31 years since the disaster occurred and reflect on the secrecy, devastatio...

The real story of why we go to war from 2017-04-29T10:00

A recording from ANZAC Day eve event put on by the Medical Association for the Prevention of War called"The real story of why we go to war". A diverse and thought provoking night including music, p...

Anzac Edition- Frontier Killings from 2017-04-22T10:00

This week, Australians will mark Anzac Day, a day to remember Australians who have died in all wars. Today on the Radioactive Show, we hear from Queensland historian Libby Connors talking about Abo...

Does Terra Nullius persist? In conversation with Irene Watson. from 2017-04-15T10:00

We share a conversation with Tanganekald, Meintangk, and Boandik woman, Irene Watson. Irene is a pro vice-chancellor at the University of South Australia, a First Nations representative to the UN a...

Disarm and Ploughshares - Anti-War Activitiy from around Australia from 2017-03-18T10:00

On this week’s show, we talk to activists from the Disarm Avalon, protesting the bi-annual arms fair.   We also talk to Jim Dowling about his recent plough shares action in Brisbane.

Double Header: Fukushima Anniversary&PBI from 2017-03-11T10:00

The Radioactive Show this week is brought to you by AC and KA and includes two interviews. The first one marks the 6th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It's with Maki-San from Smile w...

An Industry in Demise from 2017-02-25T10:00

We hear first hand from Candyce Paul of the English River Nation about the devastating impacts of Cameco's uranium mines in Saskatchewan, Canada. Marcus Atkinson gives an update on Cameco's financi...

From Yeelirrie to the UN: Nuclear updates local and national. from 2017-02-18T10:00

Today we hear Australian Nuclear Free Alliance co-chair Vicky McCabe speaking at an action calling on Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg to reject proposals to mine uranium in Western Aus...

Against good advice - State approve Yeelirrie mine proposal from 2017-01-28T10:00

The State Environment Minister of WA, Albert Jacob, has given state approval to the Yeelirrie uranium mine proposal despite opposition from Traditional Owners and his own government's Environment P...

Radioactive Show - Episode 201612241000 from 2016-12-24T10:00

Dodgy Deals: India-Australia Nukes Update from 2016-12-17T10:00

On this week's Radioactive Show, we hear an interview with Kumar Sundaram, of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace in India, on the current push by the Modi Govt to force through new nuc...

Nuclear Corruption from 2016-12-10T10:00

On this week's Radioactive Show, we hear from Professor Richard Tanter and Dr Jim Green about Nuclear Corruption and the need better regulation, transparency and accountability in the nuclear indus...

Developments in the proposal to import high level waste from 2016-11-26T10:00

On this week's Radioactive Show we look at the recent extraordinary developments in the South Australian government's push for a high level international waste dump. We speak to Friends of the Eart...

Actions for peace across the Tasman from 2016-11-19T10:00

We hear about the exciting work of Auckland Peace Action, taking a stance against the New Zealand Government's week of pro-war events. The links between militarisation, colonialism and capitalism a...

Citizens'Jury Says No! from 2016-11-12T10:00

The verdicts out and 70% of the South Australian citizens'jury, a group of 350 members of the South Australian public, have said no to an international radioactive waste dump in SA under any circum...

Global Warming and Militarism 2 from 2016-10-29T10:00

Greg talks with long time anti-war activist Jacob Grech about how the military industrial complex is taking global warming seriously and why those who care about the future of the planet need to as...

US military at Pine Gap and in Okinawa from 2016-10-22T10:00

Features recordings from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network conference 2016, held in Alice Springs. In its 50th year, Professor Richard Tanter discusses the functions of the Pine Gap Jo...

Creativity Not Radioactivity from 2016-10-15T10:00

63 years since the first mainland atomic test at Emu Field in South Australia, we speak with Nuclear Futures director Paul Brown, and Yalata Anangu artist Steve Harrison.'Nuclear'is an exhibition s...

Killer Robots and a Nuclear Ban: Horror and Hope from 2016-09-24T10:00

Fully autonomous weapons, or killer robots, are currently under development, representing a new level of morally repugnant violence.Ray Acheson is the director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarm...

"Money won't cry for you"&Vale Dr Bill Williams from 2016-09-17T10:00

Regina McKenzie, Lucy Lester and Enice Marsh are three proud Aboriginal women speaking out against state and federal plans for radioactive waste dumps in South Australia; recorded at Exposure: a co...

One dump or two? Differentiating South Australia’s double waste dump threat from 2016-09-10T10:00

On this week's radioactive show, we look at the nuclear waste dump double whammy that South Australia is currently facing. We speak to Dr Jim Green from Friends of the Earth who puts radioactive wa...

Protecting Country Today from 2016-08-27T10:00

Recordings from the Protecting Country Today Forum on the final day of the Gurindji Festival celebrating 50 years since the Wave hill walk-off.Young countrymen from Borroloola speak out about frack...

Peace Headlines and update on Australia's nuclear waste industry from 2016-08-20T10:00

A round up of peace and conflict news around the world you often don't hear on mainstream media. We also talk to Dr. jim Green from Friends of the Earth about the State of the nuclear waste issues ...

Stygofauna Stops Uranium Mine: The win against Cameco at Yeelirrie from 2016-08-13T10:00

This week we bring you some good news from Western Australia where the Environmental Protection Agency's decided not to approve Cameco's proposal to mine uranium at Yeelirrie due to threats to subt...

Sounds of the Lizard Bites Back from 2016-07-30T10:00

Another big protest festival at the world’s biggest uranium mine, Olympic Dam, located on Kokatha Country in South Australia has recently taken place. Tune into hear the words of Uncle Kevin Buzzac...

Karlamilyi Walk Part 2 from 2016-07-23T10:00

Karlamilyi Walk Part 1: Protecting Martu country from uranium mining at Kintyre from 2016-07-16T10:00

The first of a series of shows featuring recordings from the Karlamilyi Walk to protect Martu country from Cameco's plan to mine uranium at Kintyre. Featuring Karnu Nancy Taylor, Muuki, Mia Pepper,...

Over 30 Years of Fighting Olympic Dam from 2016-06-25T10:00

Conversations with Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna elder, and long-term nuclear-free activist Bilbo Taylor, reflecting on over 30 years of fighting the Olympic Dam uranium mine. 

Black Mist White Rain #2: Nuclear legacies in South Australia from 2016-06-11T10:00

The British/Australian nuclear testing program of the 1950s and 60s has left lasting impacts on the land and bodies of Aboriginal people and nuclear veterans. Nuclear weapons are not clearly outlaw...

Fallujah- War Crimes and Urbicide from 2016-05-28T10:00

This is the extended interview with longtime journalist, activist and friend of the Iraqi people Donna Mulhearn. As I type this, Fallujah is in the grip of brutal warfare. Again. For the 5th time i...

Swan Island- Australia's Dirty Secret Part 2 from 2016-05-21T10:00

In Part 2 of this 2 part look at Swan Island, we go to the gates of the secretive military training base.On the 25th of February 2016, activists from around Australia did a surprise blockade of Swa...

Flinders Ranges – Too Good to Waste : Nuclear waste dump update from 2016-05-14T10:00

 Two announcements regarding nuclear waste dump proposals for South Australia are featured. Dr. Jillian Marsh (Adnyamathanha) and Cat Beaton (Conservation Council of SA), two long time nuclear free...

Swan Island- Australia's Dirty Secret Part 1 from 2016-04-30T10:00

This week we look at a top secret military base located just one hour out of Melbourne.We speak to  peace activists, Jess, Simon Moyle and Sam Quinlan from the Swan Island Peace Convergence about t...

Peace and anti-corporatisation organising in Aotearoa from 2016-04-23T10:00

The show features an interview with Murray Horton, long-term peace organiser from Aotearoa, otherwise known as New Zealand. Murray covers a varied mix of topics including his early inspiration atte...

Chernobyl 30 Years - Past and Present Danger from 2016-04-16T10:00

On April 26th 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine ruptured. It sent radiation into the atmosphere that spread across Europe, leaving an ongoing legacy of contamination, illness, death and ...

Pine Gap Investigation III from 2016-03-26T10:00

The third in a 3 part series investigating the Pine Gap'Facility', a joint US- Aust base, just 20 Km From Alice Springs. I speak to Jacob Grech about the brewing plans for a big protest camp to be ...

Pine Gap Investigation II from 2016-02-27T10:00

The show features three women who have been involved in investigating and protesting Pine Gap's operations, as well as Australia's unquestioning military alliance with the US, since the 1970s and 8...

Don't Waste Our Country – Nuclear dump campaign update from 2016-02-20T10:00

Pine Gap Investigation I from 2016-02-13T10:00

The show explores the operations and history of the Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility, a US-Aust run base 20km out of Alice Springs, which has its 50th anniversary this year. This episode is part 1 o...

The New Movement to Ban Nuclear Weapons #2 from 2016-01-30T10:00

This is the second in a two-part series on the “humanitarian initiative”: a groundbreaking effort by governments, the Red Cross and civil society organizations to re-awaken the global public to the...

The New Movement to Ban Nuclear Weapons #1 from 2016-01-23T10:00

Fifteen thousand, eight hundred nuclear weapons spread across 14 nations. One thousand, eight hundred ready to be launched within minutes of a warning. This is not the cold war, but the present rea...

Anti-nuclear activity in 2016: Looking to the year ahead from 2016-01-16T10:00

Today we'll be taking a look to the year ahead and some of the developments that will be a focus of anti-nuclear activity in 2016.  We'll touch on some of the nuclear free movement events that are ...

Walking to the NPT in New York: Part Two from 2015-12-19T10:00

Part two of a two part special on the Movement Towards a Nuclear Free Future that happened in April 2015 from Tennessee to NY, in the US.After crossing 8 state borders, we hear from more walk parti...

Walking to the NPT in New York: Part One from 2015-12-12T10:00

Part one of a two part special on the Movement Towards a Nuclear Free Future that happened in April 2015 from Tenessee to NY, in the US. Radioactive Show Producers joined a contingent from various ...

Hill End to Hiroshima from 2015-11-28T10:00

This week we tune into the radioactive waste dump debate in Hill End, near Sally's Flat, an area that is suddenly in the spotlight for being one of six potential sites for the national radioactive ...

Grounds for Contention: shortlist for a nuclear waste dump from 2015-11-21T10:00

On Friday 13th November the Federal Governemnt release their shortlist of nominated sites to be investigated for a national nuclear waste dump. Following the incredible success of Traditional Owner...

Speaking out in Port Augusta from 2015-11-14T10:00

Featuring recordings taken at the'Renewables not Radioactive'forum held in the Port Augusta, South Australia, on 19th October 2015. Listen to an eloquent summary of communities'history of struggle ...

Talking up at ANFA from 2015-10-31T10:00

The Australian Government is doing its best dinosaur impression and trying hard to have a nuclear light-bulb moment, while the rest of the world is backing out of nuclear energy and buckling under ...

Radioactive Show - Black Mist Burnt Country from 2015-10-24T10:00

On the show this week we hear about a major national touring art exhibition titled'Black Mist Burnt Country'which commemorates the 60th anniversary of the British atomic test series at Maralinga in...

Walkatjurra Walkabout 2015 from 2015-10-17T10:00

Walkatjurra Walkabout 2015It's been 5 years of the Walkatjurra Walkabout, a walk from Wiluna to Leonora in Western Australia, led by Traditional Owners and focusing on preventing the expansion of t...

Into An Uncertain Future: Containment of Radioactivity from 2015-09-26T10:00

Radioactive Show - Episode 201509191000 from 2015-09-19T10:00

 Exploring nuclear themes in pop culture (REPEAT show from 2014 due to popular demand!) Radioactivity... it's awe-inspiring and terrible power seems to be an addictive plot device for countless com...

Cameco's Saskatchewan Secrets Part 2 from 2015-09-12T10:00

This is part two of a two-part Radioactive Show special. We've got an ear in Saskatchewan, a Canadian province dominated by one company, Cameco, and its uranium mines that riddle the north. We'll h...

Remaking the Atomic Bomb: Exposing nuclear legacies through art from 2015-08-29T10:00

Peace pagoda on the doorstep of the US Navy from 2015-08-22T10:00

This show was recorded outside the US Bangor-Kitsap Navy Base, home to the biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world, and the location of a planned Peace Pagoda. The former Pagoda was burnt...

Radioactive Exposure: Report back from the 2015 tour. from 2015-08-15T10:00

Radioactive Waste: Threats to country and culture from 2015-07-18T10:00

For the last two decades Aboriginal communities have experienced the radioactive racism that has been the hallmark of the Federal Government's approach in pursuing a remote dump site. Powerful gras...

Spaces of Resistance: Mapping Environmental Justice from 2015-07-11T10:00

This week Anitra Nelson will introduce the Environmental Justice Atlas – an online tool which maps ecological conflicts and spaces of resistance, and identify ways that people can both utilise and ...

Toward a Nuclear Free Northern Territory from 2015-06-27T10:00

This week on the show we'll be looking to the Northern Territory as they edge one step closer to being nuclear free! On June 11th Energy Resources Australia announced that they would no longer be p...

Swords Into Plowshares: Peace Activism in the US from 2015-06-20T10:00

Two activists in the Catholic Worker movement share with us how they live lives of simplicity, perform works of mercy and resist war in a country where the military is the number 1 employer. Sister...

Speaking up for country at the World Uranium Symposium from 2015-05-23T10:00

A dual focus this week.Barbara Shaw, Co-chair of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, represented ANFA one month ago speaking up for country at the World Uranium Symposium in Quebec, Canada.  The ...

Guam: Isle of Hope from 2015-05-16T10:00

Victoria-Lola Leon Guerrero, an indigenous peace activist&award-winning journalist from Guam, a Pacific Island colony, speaks about the ever expanding US military base on her island home. An inspir...

Radioactive Responsibility – Impacts of uranium mining in Australia and abroad from 2015-04-18T10:00

Safeguarding radioactive materials from impacting public and environmental health and from military use is essential for a safe and healthy future. But as the risks increase, big business and gover...

Banish the Bomb with Footprints and Bike Tracks from 2015-04-11T10:00

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. It’s also time again for the NPT (The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) review at the UN. Throughout April 2015, Footprints for Pea...

Words for the Nuclear Free Movement from 2015-03-28T10:00

Dwell among these thoughts on the nuclear industry, sacred land and the movements that inspire us from poets both fresh and seasoned.Put down the news for half an hour and take heart from these cre...

Stumbling in the Dark, Reaching for the Light from 2015-03-21T10:00

"Since nuclear weapons entered our world, everything has changed, whether we like it or not, ready or not."- Tilman RuffIn this beautifully sad and compelling essay'Stumbling in the Dark, Reaching ...