Perth Indymedia

We speak to Indonesian musician and independent music label manager Rian about a controversial draft music bill currently being proposed by the Indonesian government.

We speak to organiser Erima Dall regarding the NSW Right to Strike campaign and the importance of workers being able to take militant industrial action to protect and expand their rights at work.

We speak to long-time activist, journalist and researcher Federico Fuentes about the unfolding political situation in Venezuela and the US state's involvement.

We speak to author, journalist and film-maker Antony Lowenstein about the ongoing privatisation of the war in Afghanistan

We speak to organiser Jaime Evans about the global Womens March movement.

We speak to policy analyst and researcher Michael Smethurst about the issue of pill testing at festivals in Australia

We speak to Indymedia's Alex Whisson on the streets of Paris as he joins the Yellow Jackets demonstrations.

The growing homelessness and public housing crisis in Australia is being tackled head on by community members in Queensland. We speak to The Gabba ward councillor and Greens member Jonathan Sri in Brisbane about efforts to confront homelessness.

As huge demonstrations by the anti-austerity 'Yellow Jackets' sweep across France we speak to long-time French organiser Marine Benoit about the growing social movement.

Kyle Cox from United chats to us about the campaign to decriminalise all illicit drugs in NSW.

We speak to Martin Pritchard from Environs Kimberley regarding the shock news that the state Labor government may consider lifting the ban on fracking in some parts of our state, particularly the Kimberley region region.

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to George Barda, the spokesperson for climate change action group Extinction Rebellion, regarding the inspiring direct action and protest that took place in London last week. To find out more about Extinction Rebellion visit: https://rebellion.earth/

We speak to organizer Lucy Honan regarding the teachers walk off and industrial action for refugee rights and #KidsOffNauru

We speak to Dr Kaz Ross from UTAS re recent attempts by white supremacists to infiltrate the NSW Young Nationals

We speak to Alaskan professor Richard Steiner regarding the proposal to drill for oil in the Great Australian bite.

Much of the world seemed to be in a state of near convulsion at the election of Jair Bolsonaro, a far right candidate who has won the Presidency of Brazil, in yet another election result that illustrates the extraordinary political instability of the current period. Freelance journalist and editor of Brasil Wire, Brian Mier, spoke to Alex Whisson.

Bradon Ellem is a Professor of Employment Relations in the University of Sydney Business School, and the author of The Pilbara: From the Deserts Profits Come, a rich and engaging single volume history of trade unionism in the Pilbara iron ore industry.

Professor Raymond Evans taught for many years at the University of Queensland and is the author of many texts on the history of both frontier and post-frontier Queensland, including the seminal A History of Queensland, published by Cambridge University Press, and short-listed for the inaugural 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Non-fiction. One of his long term research interests is the history of frontier violence in the Queensland colony.

Identity politics. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you’ll have at least heard the term. One particular version of identity politics featured heavily in Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the American Presidency. And if you spend so much as five minutes in left wing circles on social media, you’ll be guaranteed to encounter another, especially strident version of it. But what does the term identity politics actually mean? And why has it taken hold of the political left throughout the Western world in such an extraordinary way? Alex Whisson spoke to Asad Haider, author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump.

Author and researcher Chris Owen speaks to Indymedia's Raymond Grenfell about the dark history of policing and frontier violence in the Kimberly region of Western Australia.