Broadcast by 4ZZZ fm 102.1 on 20 mar 2015 with Nicole and Nathan

Introduction and interviews by Andy about Uranium mining in Australia. Andy interviews people from Nuclear Free Dubbo about the uranium bi-product of mining for rare earth elements in Dubbo.

Speeches at rally in Brisbane on 19 Mar 2015 against the forced closures of aboriginal communities in WA.
Aunty Phillipa Cook and Steven Oliver saying his poem “Real”

Listen to the whole show here:  http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2015-03-20

Playlist

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“No prime minister in Australia’s history has ever been more engaged with Indigenous communities in remote communities than Tony Abbott – no-one,” Mr Hockey said.

Andy interviews Bunna Lawrie from Coloured Stone about Land and Country*. Bunna and Andy talk about the importance of the Blockade of coal mining at Maules Creek in NSW. Talk about the saddest behind the songs about nuclear testing at Maralinga.

Baird government’s Greenwashing in the 2015 NSW state election

Criticism of Tony Abbott’s knowledge of indigenous affairs and refugees.
Community announcement – Black Friday Rally

Listen to the show at http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2015-03-13

* Bunna Lawrie’s band ‘Coloured Stone’ played at a RAR concert in Adelaide in 1982 (not Brisbane).

Script

Hello, good afternoon, your listening to the paradigm shift on 4zzz. On paradigm shift we look at and challenge our current society’s concepts, values, assumptions and practices. Filling in for Andy and Ian for another week

You just heard terrible truths with heat then fire.

Tony Abbot has delivered some more killer lines this week, last week we played the clip of him claiming the LNP was smashing patriachary and helping us break through the glass ceiling by choosing to hold their women’s day lunch at a men’s only club. This week instead of patronising and insulting Australian women he has gone with being incredibly uninformed and offensive towards Aboriginal Australians describing remote communities as ‘lifestyle choices’.

He talks about the lack of opportunities within these communities. I think this statement shows that he has a pretty narrow view on what constitutes an opportunity, how about the opportunities these remote communities to connect with land, culture, family, community? Yes, within some of these communities there may be a lack of opportunity to engage in western forms of education such as schools, but what about education through more traditional methods, recognizing other ways of knowing.

Also yes there may be lack of opportunities for essential services such as health care and other support services within these communities, but does this not more reflect a government failure or short-coming, that they have not successfully implemented these services in remote Australia.

And what happens to those who have lived on their land all their lives? Is their quality of life really going to be improved when they are moved from their homes to larger towns and cities with no connection to country, just as what the government defines as opportunities is entirely based within a white, western perspective, this definition of what constitutes quality of life also is.

Was reading some articles today, found a quote from Malcom Turnball, he made a pretty scary comment, he said ‘I don’t think there is any non-indigenous member of the Parliament that has more involvement with, or more understanding of, indigenous communities than Tony’. I certainly hope this is not the case.

If these comments make you as angry as they do for me, and if you’d like to show solidarity with members of some of the oldest cultures in the world who continue to be let down by government after government, come down to the Brisbane One Mob United Black Friday Rally, 5pm Today at King George Square. Speaker will include Uncle Sam Watson and Ruby Wharton.

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Your listening to the paradigm shift on 4zzz, you just heard from Australian Bad Hira Fence- free from myself and before that was Alex turner- stuck on a puzzle

We are now going to play you

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This is the paradigm shift on 4zzz, you just heard an interview with the vocalist and drummer from the band Coloured Stones, Bunna Lawrie, followed by a track by Coloured Stones called island of greed.

We will now listen to a segment from Andy

That was a recording of Andy discussing Greenwashing and the upcoming NSW election.

Not to turn this week’s show into just a big shot at Tony Abbot and the ridiculous things he says because I think the internet and social media pretty much has that topic covered, but I thought another important topic from the Australian political realm over the last week or so was his response to the UN on our treatment of refugees. Saying that we were sicked of being lectured by the United Nations on torturing refugees, indicating that maybe they should be more congratulating us for stopping the boats and the deaths at sea. As always completely tunnelvisioned, hey what about the deaths in our detentions centers or the deaths of those who didn’t get the chance to escape war zones.

This is particularly hypocritical as international human rights law can be seen to have its foundations within western philosophical and political writings, reflects western norms and is based upon a western definition of what it means to be a human being. We have played a big role in developing the UN protocols, but have continuously failed to uphold them in regards to refugees and asylum seekers, we have now gone on step further and have criticized the human rights mechanisms we have built and supported.

Although I think there is an important debate to be had about the universalism of human rights and the effectiveness of having a large authoritarian body such as the United Nations enforcing human rights, I think highlighting these comments is important as they show that the Australian government’s continues to refuse to recognize and acknowledge that is torturing refugees in offshore detention centres and that this is pretty disgusting.

A local even that is happening is the Rise up for Refugees fundraiser show at the Greenslopes Bowls Club. Great line up of local bands including Rivermouth, Kingston Stompers and Maiden May. There will be free barefoot bowls and cheap beers. Its next Saturday starting at 3pm, going to late.

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Girl on a lilo by the stress of leisure

This is the Paradigm shift on 4zzz

Update on the action at the Maules Creek Block Aid down in Northern New South Wales, which we have been following over the last few weeks. Resistance against the forest clearing has continued with over 40 people being arrested over the last few weeks. These arrests have successfully contributed disrupting the clearing and hopefully delayed the destruction of the precious forest, and have shown that although both sides of the government continue to blindly support the construction of the coal mine, the Australian people aren’t happy with this and are opposing and resistance the mining of unsustainable, outdated fuel coal.

Here in Brisbane, last Friday night the Blockaid fundraising show raised over $3000 for those down on the frontline. I can also confirm that it was a great night, the residents of turnstyle made some delicious wood fired pizzas and it finished with a big sweaty dance party.

You’ve been listening to the Paradigm shift on 4zzz.

Don’t forget to get down to King George square this afternoon and show your disgust for our governments proposed ignorant policies. If you missed the details before there is a rally to protest the proposed closing down of remote communities, forcing many people off their traditional lands, happening today at 5pm at King George Square.

Also a great chance to show your support for is attending refugees is the Rise up for Refugees fundraiser show at the Greenslopes Bowls Club. Great line up of local bands including Rivermouth, Kingston Stompers and Maiden May. There will be free barefoot bowls and cheap beers. Its next Saturday starting at 3pm, going to late.

Thanks for tuning in and listening this afternoon, Paradigm Shift will be back every Friday at noon on community radio 4ZZZ looking at this and other issues that affect our lives.

Rise Up For Refugees @ Greenslopes Bowls Club
March 21 @ 3:00 pm – 11:00 pm | $10

https://www.facebook.com/events/761648103921603

BANDS & COMPS & BOWLS & CHEAP BEER!!!
Everyone welcome!

3.00pm – 11.00pm

Saturday, March 21st @ Greenslopes Bowls Club!

131 Ridge Street, Greenslopes (near the soccer fields, just a 3 minute walk from Greenslopes Busway Station, and on the bikeway too).

$10 donation upon entry and wear orange to show your support for Harmony Day_AU & Rise Up For Refugees!

Our Harmony Day Music Festival will be featuring the AMAZING:

Goldstool
Phil Monsour (solo)
Lincoln Kurt Howe
Weezal
Punxie and the Poison Pens
Boho Mofos
George Higgins

Playlist
12:04 Terrible Truths – Heat then fire
12:09 Alex Turner – Stuck on a puzzle
12:13 Heirophants – Free from myself
12:34 Coloured Stone – Island of greed
12:51 Stress of Liesure – Girl on a lilo

[Broadcast on Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm 102.1) at noon on Friday, 6 Mar 2015. A special thnx to Nicole (announcer) and Nathan (panelling) for doing the show and for Eliza’s input on the LNP organising International Women’s day at a mens club, Tattersalls in Queen Street Mall.]

The women’s movement has a long history dating back to socialist activists trying to obtain suffrage for women and seek worker control for women in factories. Before the first world war, suffragettes took direct action to obtain power and control over their own lives. In 1978 women in Brisbane marched for equal rights at work, the right to free safe abortion and for education. Ian provides an historic tape of all  singing, all marching women confronting the Bjelke-Petersen government. Andy has a frank discussion with three women activists at the Maules Creek blockade against coal companies exploitation of country. They discuss everything from ‘locking on’ to sexist farmers.

Listen to PShift here … http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2015-03-06

Ian’s recording of women’s democratic rights struggles in the 1970s is also on soundcloud:

Playlist
Virginia Sook – Soil, seeds, bellies
Fiona Apple – Werewolf
Speedy Ortiz – Tiger Tank
Sleater-Kinney – A new wave

[Broadcast on Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm 102.1) at noon on Friday, 27 Feb 2015. A special thnx to Nicole (announcer) and Nathan (panelling) for doing the show. The script was written by Andy and Ian. Andy did the interview with long term resident of Miller’s Point in Sydney.]

Sydney has a long history of evictions and resistance to them. During the Great Depression, tenants unions would blockade houses to prevent banks evicting families. In the 1970’s, as Barney Gardner briefly mentions in the interview below, the Builders Labourers Federation launched a series of “green bans”, refusing to work on jobsites that were evicting working class people and demolishing historic buildings. These bans, working alongside the communities affected, helped to preserve low income housing in Woolloomooloo and Glebe, and kept historic buildings in The Rocks and Kings Cross.

Millers Point is a tiny enclave of houses near Darling Harbour that has managed to survive through all this, though it has changed hands from Maritime housing to department of housing.

With Sydney inner city housing prices through the roof, the department of housing is now trying to sell off this last vestige of low income housing and move everyone to other suburbs.

Just a few km south of Millers Point, there is another very similar housing struggle going on in Redfern, where the aboriginal housing that was fought so hard for in the 1970’s is set to be sold off; again the lure of huge real estate money outweighing any notions of protecting community.

Let us hear Barney Gardner’s story, a man who has lived at Millers Point for 65 years.

Listen to PShift here … http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2015-02-27

Andy’s full interview with Barney is also on soundcloud:

Playlist
Palace Music – The Brute Choir
Nana Vigilante – Impermanence
Thigh Master – Age of concern
Employment – Words I wish I’d never put to paper, now spill past my teeth

PShift 6 Feb 2015 4zzz fm 102.1 friday

Black boy, 
the colour of your skin 
is your pride and joy
            Buna Lawrie (Coloured Stone)

Andy and Ian discuss treaty signed by the British in New Zealand (at Waitangi) but not in Australia with first nations people.

Andy interviews Maori activist (sorry, i can’t spell her name) and Michael Anderson about treaty.

Listen to the show at http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2015-02-06

Playlist
Friday 6/2/15 12pm-1:05pm
Yothu Yindi – Treaty
traditional – Toia mai te waka nei
Coloured Stone – Black boy
Golden Orb – Ghost gums
Alphamama – If ya gon lie

Liner Notes
I said during PShift that Coloured Stone played at a Rock against Racism (RAR) concert in Brisbane in 1982. I was wrong. Buna Lawrie’s band ‘Coloured Stone’ played at a RAR concert in Adelaide in 1982 (not Brisbane).

At the ripe old age of 13, Buna Lawrie’s son, Jason Scott, ”now big enough to be seen over the cymbals ” was officially invited to join Coloured Stone in the capacity of drummer. His first major gig? Rock Against Racism in Adelaide (in 1982).

“I was nervous and scared of the big outside world,” says Jason. ” And just being a part of my dad’s group that I’d been dreaming about since I was little! I mean, they were the leading Aboriginal group in Australia. It was such a big responsibility and I was playing drums for them.”

It was an auspicious debut … see http://www.deadlyvibe.com.au/2007/11/jason-scott/

[PShift friday 23 Jan 2015 4zzz fm 102.1]

Ian discusses how the modern nation state overcame aboriginal resistance and went on to colonise Australia.

Interview with Les Malezer, co-chair of Aboriginal Congress about recognition of aboriginal and Torres Strait Island nations on Invasion Day 26 Jan 2015.

Listen at http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2015-01-23

Playlist
Provocalz – One Land
Lorna Munro – Colours
No Fixed Address – We have survived
Frank Yamma – She Cried

Broadcast on PShift (4zzz fm 102.1 at noon on fridays) on Friday 16 jan 2015

Andy’s picks for 2014 plus some background from Andy and Ian … listen in at http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2015-01-16

[PShift broadcast 9 Jan 2015 4zzz fm 102.1 Friday at noon]

Andy and Ian spoke with Karl Jackson from the National Union of Students NUS about their campaigns to protect student rights in 2015.

Is the Education System egalitarian? What is its aim? Why is the federal government de-regulating the tertiary education sector? What is the role of the corporations? What about de-schooling society?

Andy gave a brief run down of what is happening in West Papua:
Several days ago, the Indonesian military and police arrested scores of West Papuans in Utikini village near Timika, which is very close to the world’s largest goldmine. According to reports, up to 116 West Papuan men, women and children were arrested and tortured… http://freewestpapua.org/2015/01/09/over-100-west-papuans-arrested-with-houses-burned-down/

Listen to the program at http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2015-01-09

Playlist

Georgia Maq – Musings of a 16 year old Georgia McDonald

Strange Tenants – I don’t want to fight your war

Crow Eater – Spit on your floor

Suicidal Tendencies – We are family

Tibet2Timbuktu – Heart sutra

Bob Marley and the Wailers – Oppressed song

[Paradigm Shift broadcast 4zzz fm 102.1 friday 2 jan 2015 at noon with Ian]

Three planes down; the rise of the Islamic State; Argentine defaults on debt; Israeli bombing of Gaza; an end to the US blockade of Cuba; austerity budgets of 2014 (an avalanche of ‘oncers’ Napthine; CampBell Newman; Abbott?); Brisbane Blacks win back Jagera Hall; the Dutch disease for Russian and Australian economies; flowers in Martin Place Sydney; and, the strange trial of the sacred fire

Listen to podcast of the show @ http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2015-01-02

Playlist

alice eather – your story is my story

midnight oil – blue sky mining

monni zow – living in the colonies

(Paradigm Shift fri at noon 26 Dec 2014 4zzz fm 102.1 with Corey and Ian)

Listen to the show podcast

http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2014-12-26

My story is your story
We’re going to go to a poem. Alice Eather – my story is your story Alice was raised in Brisbane but has returned to Maningrida in Arnhem Land to protect her mother’s sacred waters from petroleum and gas seabed mining.

The town that was murdered
Just before Christmas the Deputy premier Jeff Seeney announced the verdict in the coronial inquiry into Acland, the town that was murdered on the Darling Downs when New Hope Coal decided to plou~h ahead and expand the existing coal mine in preference to have the best agricultural land in Australia. We counter-pose this picture because it is the farmer’s party that is supporting this assassination. There is only one man sitting down in Acland to hold back the miners. Lets listen to local farmers Nicki Laws and Pamela Bolton tell the story of Acland.

Native title and mining
One of the most excitlng events of the year was the Decolonisation Before profit conference. It was held in Musgrave Park from the 8th-16th November in resistance to the G20. It was amazing being in the park, learning so much, and being surrounded by interesting and inspirational people. It was really great working together in a community and feeling like this could be a sort of blueprint for a better way to live. One of the people I talked to during this conference was uncle Yillah who’s a Githabul man from Northern NSW. He’s fighting mining companies who have moved in on his land after they signed a Native Title agreement.

There is more from uncle Yillah from May this year. After a long blockade by the local community at the proposed gas well in Bentley, Metgasco’s license to drill was suspended by the government and the company was referred to ICAC, the
Independent commission against Corruption. During their drilling program, Metgasco tried to use the name of the Githabul
tribe without the consent of the elders to help force gas-fields on an unwilling community. This is uncle Yillah’s rebuke to Metgasco boss, Peter Henderson, on the day of the suspension.

Playlist
alice eather (Fl) – your story is my story
the lurkers (FA) – who’s got a padlock and chain?
john boyd – leave it in the ground
jumping fences (IF) – strike the beast hard

Listen to the show podcast

http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2014-12-26