About this episode

The episode discusses activist campaigns, including the NDIS cuts and the Palestine movement, featuring interviews with Brooke Forbes and Tash Wark on mental health and council workers' rights.

Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics.Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha, Zane AlcornNewsreportsPresenters discuss the recent announcement by the Albanese government to kick more than 160,000 people off the NDIS and why it reflects misplaced priorities from the government.Discussion on repression of the Palestine movement in Queensland including reporting on Justice for Palestine announcing High Court challenge to laws as more than 20 are arrested and solidarity with Authors leaving University of Queensland Press after Indigenous kids book pulled for 'anti-Semitism' of illustrator.Interviews and DiscussionBrooke Forbes, lawyer, author and survivor from Newcastle, NSW joins the program to discuss her new book Survival is an Instinct. A book that blends fiction and non-fiction, creating a multi-layered portrayal of surviving mental health diagnoses and sexual assault. Survival is an Instinct asks whether justice can be achieved through the very act of surviving, looks at where the legal system is failing survivors and talks to the exploitation of…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jacob Andrewartha, Zane Alcorn

Guests: Brooke Forbes, Tash Wark

Topics covered

• activist campaigns
• NDIS
• Palestine movement
• industrial campaign
• wages and conditions
• mental health
• sexual assault

Keywords

• activism
• NDIS cuts
• Palestine
• council workers
• wages
• mental health
• sexual assault
• industrial campaign

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Australian Services Union, University of Queensland Press

Books & works: Survival is an Instinct

Places: Queensland, Newcastle

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Green Left Radio podcast page.