Recent extended discussion with RadioMMT – Part 1

It is a public holiday in Australia today celebrating our national day – the day that the colonial powers of Britain first decided to set us up as a penal colony because they had run out of prison space in the old country due to the massive incarceration rates following the enclosures. The impoverished small scale farmers who relied on the open ‘commons’ to survive were dispossessed by the privatisation of the communal lands. They were then criminalised as a result of their poverty and starvatoin and shipped off to what is now Australia. A sorry start to white settlement. However, the country was settled at least 30 thousands years prior to white settlement by the first nation peoples. They call today ‘invasion day’ as do the whites who are sympathetic to their oppression (such as me). Today is thus a highly conflicted one – big street marches recognising the invasion, competing with traditional white Australia Day events, and, then, being challenged more recently by the so-called March for Australia movement rallies which are a front for neo-nazis who hate immigration and most nearly everything else. The call to abandon today as our national day and instead shift it to a date that would not cause the first nations people such angst falls on death ears. Anyway, today I am not writing any more but are promoting a recent discussion I had with the RadioMMT program on Melbourne’s community radio station 3CR. I will be back on Thursday with some analysis of the upcoming Japanese national election, which is providing lots of opportunities for education.

This program on – RadioMMT – which is a weekly program on Melbourne’s community radio station 3CR was broadcast on January 23, 2026.

The host is Kevin Gaynor and we recorded a two-part discussion the week prior.

You can listen to Part 1 – HERE.

You can download Part 1 – HERE (depending on your browser settings).

That is enough for today!

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