City Limits

This week we speak with Dr. Nick Rose from Sustain: The Australian Food Network - a fascinating conversation about food security and the challenges and opportunities for food producers and consumers...

This week we learn about the effects of cuts to public housing stock. April Bragg from the Housing for the Aged Action Group gives us an update from the frontline. 

This week we are joined by Hannah Aulby from The Australia Institute to discuss the campaign for a federal anti-corruption commission. The federal Labour Party have agreed it's a good idea, and set up certain principles about how it should operate. Listen here to find out what they are, why they work and what happens when they dont. More information is available from the Australia Institute website

On today's transport session of City Limits its Kevin's birthday! We're joined by regular guest John McPherson and special guest Rachel Lynskey to talk about Get on Board- a grassroots initiative mobilising communities to advocate for better public transport around Melbourne. We discuss the contentious Western tunnel project, how to get past Melbourne's car dependency and barriers to change.

Today Kevin, Meg and Eugenia are joined by John Passant - economist and workers' rights champion, to discuss the recent moves for tax cuts for high income businesses. Where will the money really go? Wages and employment or shareholders and business investments? John mentions the recent Anglicare report The Cost of Privilege - find out more here.

This week we welcome new co-host Eugenia Zoubtchenko and catch up with April Bragg from the Housing for the Aged Action Group. We also speak with Helen Franks, a resident who lives near the Melbourne airport, who tells us about the new master Plan and a Major Development Plant for the proposed third East/West runway and extension of the existing East/west runway.

This week, after a debrief of the best news from the Herald Sun, we chat with Rosa McKenna from the Spotswood and South Kingsville Residents Group about the Westagate Tunnel. Then we speak with Friends of Steele Creek Inc activist Helen Vandenberg. For more info about the waterways workshop, check out Environmental Justice Australia. 

This week we discuss transport with our regular guest John McPherson. Topics range from government funded airports and train-lines for the Adani mine, Melbourne tunnels affecting waterways, and public land being sold off for private gain.For more informations about the Adani front-line blockade, check out StopAdani 

In our intial conversations Kevin commends the Herald Sun on their fearless commentary. Then we explore in depth the decision to put an Apple store in Fed Square. James Lesh and Tania Davidge from Citizens for Melbourne join us in studio, and we have a lively discussion about the process, with information about some genuinely optomistic possibilities for stopping the building of the store. 

In the round-up of the news this week, we take a look at 'business bashing', tax cuts, Woolworths' treatment of cleaning staff, and the effects of mining waste in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Sue Bolton is a Socialist Alliance councillor in Moreland, and gives us some really important insights into the current situation in public housing - up to 11 housing estates to be demolised, with tenents being pushed into agreeing to relocate...