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Social Critique and Crass Language. Thursday mornings 9am - 10am, on 4zzz 102.1 fm. (www.4zzzfm.org.au/program/radio-reversal) It's fun!

Radio Reversal is a show that subjects aspects of everyday life to historico-political, theoretical, cheeky, irreverent, high brow, low brow, eye brow, warm-hearted analysis. Our aim is to see the world more clearly, think about what we'd like it to become, and how we can make that happen. We think that discussing these sorts of ideas is one way to ease the lessen the alienation that affects many

of us trying to make sense of a world that so often makes no sense of us. We also play loads of awesome music (sometimes thematic!) with great enthusiasm for requests and an emphasis on supporting local artists. Tune in on 102.1 fm, stream online from 4zzzfm.org.au, or listen to our podcasts:
http://radioreversal.podbean.com/

You can also listen to our more recent shows via 4zzz's on demand page:
http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/radio-reversal

Email us! radio.reversal(at)gmail.com

04/06/2026

On today's show, we've got plenty of great new music to play for you, plus some updates from the Goori Camp Embassy at Barrambin (Victoria Park) ahead of construction of a stadium for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. You can support Goori Camp Embassy here: https://chuffed.org/project/177541-goori-camp-embassy and find out more via Save Vic Park Barrambin Action Hub. The removal of First Nations Peoples and supporters from the Goori Camp site is especially aggregious as it has taken place during so-called "Reconciliation Week". We reflect on the project of Reconciliation as one that prioritises settler comfort over meaningful action in service of recognition, reparations, restitution, and responsibility towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, as identified by Dr Innez Haua from the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures: https://www.journalofglobalindigeneity.com/post/3973-reconciliation-a-settler-comfort-project.

27/05/2026

Zedheads! Tune in this morning as Anna & Jonno reverse the radio on fascism in the colony. We dig into the idea of colonial fascism - the specific ways that fascism exists in the DNA of colonial states - and talk about why this concept is so helpful in understanding what's going on in the world at the moment. We talk a bit about the media reporting on the torture and harassment of participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla (including our dear friend and comrade Sam Woripa Watson) and how western states have tried to exceptionalise the actions of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and completely erase the context of these actions in the context of an ongoing genocide and occupation of Gaza. We then turn to the rise of hard-right electoral movements - from Trump in the US, to Reform in the UK and One Nation here in so-called australia. We reflect on the value of colonial fascism as a way of understanding that these movements aren't an aberration or a departure from business as usual in the colony - they're just moments where the liberal mask of colonialism slips and its underlying logics are laid bare.

A big, juicy, chatty show today and as always, we'd love to hear your thoughts! What do you think about colonial fascism in this moment? Do you think the concept is useful in thinking about this political moment?

If this week's discussion makes you curious to learn more, come along to our monthly community event "No Phones, No Phascists" tomorrow (Friday 29 May!) to hear Aunty Dr. Mary Graham talking about colonial fascism in person! Details below!

25/05/2026

Friends! Join us for Episode 25 of the Radio Reversal podcast where I share some conversations recorded over the past few weeks as we've been following the story of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

In case you've missed it, the Global Sumud Flotilla set out with hundreds of participants from all around the world to try and bring much-needed humanitarian aid (and global media attention) to the people of Gaza. Our dear friend and comrade Sam Woripa Watson was one of the participants in this year's Global Sumud Flotilla and I asked him a few questions while he was in Italy waiting to embark. A few weeks later, when we heard that Sam's vessel had been intercepted by the IOF, I talked to Subhi Awad from the Global Sumud Flotilla media team about what had happened and how people here in so-called aus could support the broader work of the flotilla and keep the pressure on Gaza.

https://soundcloud.com/radioreversalcollective/episode-25-global-sumud?si=327ed88cf9b04450a8c029d37f6fa840&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

We'll keep sharing updates on this story as they emerge but if you want to hear more from Sam about their experiences being detained by the IOF, Sam spoke to Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist and writer Amy McQuire for Black Witness. You can read that account here: https://www.blackwitness.com/p/this-is-the-most-violent-experience

20/05/2026

Happy Thursday, Zedly ones! It’s Marissa and Rosh in the studio today. This week, we’re bringing you a roundup of activist happenings around Magan-djin from the last few weeks.

First up, we’ll hear from Subhi about the Global Sumud Flotilla, in an interview with our wonderful co-producer, Anna. Subhi is an organiser with Northern Rivers for Palestine and a local spokesperson for the Global Sumud Flotilla. As you may be aware, all of the boats on the current mission of the Global Sumud Flotilla travelling to Gaza carrying essential humanitarian aid have now been intercepted in international waters by the Israeli Occupation Forces, and the IOF have forcibly detained participants. 11 Australian citizens have been taken to Israeli prisons, including our dear comrades Sam Woripa Watson, a Wangerriburrah and Birri Gubba community activist and filmmaker based here in Magan-djin and Surya McEwen.

After that, we’ll share some recordings from the Kanak delegation’s recent visit to Magan-djin. These recordings are from a panel event at Echo&Bounce on 3 May, organised with Treaty Before Sports. We’ll hear from leaders in the movement for Kanak liberation from French colonisation in the Pacific. These contributions were interpreted live, so you’ll hear from delegates in their own voices and from the interpreter. It’s very special to be able to share these with you, thanks to our co-producer Rosh recording on the night.

Today’s show is yet another reminder of the power and necessity of taking action together. Gather with friends, get in the streets, contact your political representatives, join a Justice for Palestine Magan-djin organising meeting, get down to the Goori camp embassy at Barrambin, sign up to the BREAD newsletter and find like-minded comrades in real life. All of these actions matters. As Sam reminds us, show up and keep showing up. Until Palestine is free. Always was, always will be.

Image credit: on instagram, https://www.instagram.com/p/DYgh25dEiBG/

13/05/2026

Good morning Zedheads!!

This week on the show we are digging into the changes announced to the NDIS in this year’s federal budget, and how those major cuts to the NDIS have been explained and justified by the Labor party and in the media. Like many of you, we were horrified to see the announcement that NDIS funding would be dramatically reduced in this budget, amid an emerging moral panic about the idea that people are “rorting” the system.

We also wanted to share the final parts of Anna's interview with Belle from Only Human on 4ZZZ Zed Digital, where we talked about Belle's experiences of psychiatric illness and disability, the life changing impact of accessing the NDIS, and the scary normalisation of carceral and punitive responses to psychosis. Today we want to use the final part of this beautiful chat with Belle in part to contextualise the announcements regarding NDIS funding that we have seen this year - to help emphasise the very real and dangerous impacts that reducing support for people with disabilities will have for their wellbeing.

We'll also be playing lots of new and local music, some twinkly folk for the sunshowers.

Tune in from 9-10am on 4ZZZ, or catch up later on demand, via the 4ZZZ website. You can also catch us on the Community Radio Network and in a podcasting app near you! (that is, on your phone).

06/05/2026

Happy Thursday, Zedly ones! It’s Marissa in the studio today, bringing you an interview that our
wonderful co-producer Anna recorded with 4zzz’s very own Belle from Only Human (pictured ☺️).

As you probably know, Only Human is a show on 4zzz that airs live on 102.1fm on Sundays, from 12-1pm and on Zed Digital on Tuesdays from 6-7pm. It is produced by disabled folks and centres disability justice, disabled and q***r artists, and so much more. You can find links to everything Only Human online via their helpful Linktree (see link in comments).

Today’s interview is a thought-provoking and tender conversation in which Belle shares generously from and about their lived experience of bipolar. The conversation touches on disability justice and the intersection between the health system and carceral logics, as well as the importance of access to life-saving systems like the NDIS.

If the show brings up distress or challenges for you, please remember that you can call Lifeline’s 24 hour crisis support line on 13 11 14 or, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners, you can call 13 92 76. And reach out to your personal support networks too.

Also a reminder about the National Day of Action to protect the NDIS this Saturday, 9 May. The rally
starts at 3.15pm at King George Square and has been organised in response to the Commonwealth
Government’s announcement of funding cuts to the NDIS. Masks are encouraged and will be available on the day. Show up if you can to show your support! Link to the event is in the comments.

Have a wonderful Thursday!

Image credit: belle.frieda.aimee on instagram, https://www.instagram.com/p/DSO8Gb3iflI/?igsh=eDUxa2RsbW5vampm

05/05/2026

Hello friends! Welcome to Episode 24 of the Radio Reversal podcast. This week on the show, catch Marissa in conversation with Sam Tracy, Practice Director at Basic Rights Queensland, a community legal centre that works on human rights, discrimination and poverty-related laws. Marissa and Sam discuss a recent win on behalf of homeless clients in the Supreme Court in the case of Bobeldyk and Anor v Moreton Bay City Council; Eichin & Ors v Moreton Bay City Council [2026] QSC 27. They reflect on the limits and possibilities of using legal avenues to fight against the criminalisation of poverty, and how these legal cases can function as part of a broader struggle for housing justice, land back, and a permanent end to colonial occupation and capitalist exploitation. Sign up to our weekly newsletter, become a paid subscriber and listen to the podcast at the links in our bio.

Photo from the Bendigo St occupations in Naarm in 2016.

29/04/2026

Hi Zedforce! On today's show, Anna catches up with Sam Woripa Watson, a Wangerriburrah and Birri Gubba community activist and filmmaker, as he sails with the Global Sumud Flotilla to deliver food and medicine to Gaza. Anna chats with Sam about what sailing with the Flotilla involves, why they chose to participate, and what this Flotilla hopes to achieve.

To chip in to support Sam, go to: https://chuffed.org/project/169135-support-sam-watson-sailing-with-the-flotilla

“We see our collective liberation in Palestinian liberation, and theirs in ours. As First Nations people, we know what colonial violence looks like - land theft and erasure. Palestinians are facing that same violence now. Standing with Gaza is standing for justice everywhere. Let Palestinians live. Let aid flow. Cut ties with Israel.”
- Sam Woripa Watson

Don’t forget it’s April Atonement, making it a perfect time to (re)subscribe to 4ZZZ to support community radio that centres these struggles for justice. You can get your warm inner glow at www.4zzz.org.au/support

22/04/2026

Good morning Zed-legends! It’s Marissa in the studio today, bringing you an interview with Sam Tracy, Practice Director at Basic Rights Queensland, a community legal centre that works on human rights, discrimination and poverty-related laws.

Sam discusses a recent win on behalf of homeless clients in the Supreme Court (decision linked below) in the case of Bobeldyk and Anor v Moreton Bay City Council; Eichin & Ors v Moreton Bay City Council [2026] QSC 27. While the decision sadly does not stop Council’s from enforcing laws to move people on and destroy their belongings, it’s a starting point for thinking
about the role of lawyers and the legal system in this moment.

In this conversation, Sam also discusses some proposed legislation to further expand police powers to ban people from prescribed public places. Alongside the recent laws banning pro-Palestine speech and the arrests at protests over the weekend, these laws represent a concerning trend to control how people use and exist in public places. As always, this is a reminder that struggles for justice on stolen First Nations land are interconnected and necessarily anti-colonial, anti-racist and anti-capitalist.

Don’t forget it’s April Atonement, making it a perfect time to (re)subscribe to 4zzz to support community radio that centres these struggles for justice. You can get your warm inner glow at www.4zzz.org.au/support.

Have a fantastic Thursday!

Image credit: and on instagram (support if you can!) https://www.instagram.com/p/DXbFNMZCbiC/?img_index=10&igsh=MW9nMzdqcjQ2bmE3YQ%3D%3D

20/04/2026

G'day friends. In case you missed it, Radio Reversal is now releasing our weekly radio show in podcast form so you can catch our content whenever and wherever you want.

This week, you'll hear Anna speaking with Gungarri academic and Mum Raylene Nixon about her beautiful son Steve and the ongoing campaign for . Steve was just 27 when he was attacked by police officers while sitting, unarmed, in a parked car in his Aunty's driveway in Toowoomba. Despite being very unwell (he had been hospitalised a few days prior for asthma), police officers broke the window of the car and forced Steve out of the vehicle before using the highly controversial (and widely banned) Lateral Vascular Neck Restraint (a dangerous choke hold technique) to physically restrain him. Steve died as a result of this interaction, and yet the coronial inquest into his death in police custody failed to make any recommendations for reform, including refusing to recommend banning the LVNR technique which is already banned in every other state in Australia.

In this harrowing conversation, Steve's mum Raylene talks about the process of seeking justice for her son, and why her family are determined to see the QPS bodyworn camera footage from the night he died released to the public.

Listen via soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/radioreversalcollective/episode-22-justice-for-stevie?si=b6d820af4cb34ddc9c1398951868a8a5&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

And head to the link below to subscribe to our weekly newsletter where you'll get each episode delivered to your inbox, plus details about standalone series, upcoming events, and subscriber-only episodes: https://www.radioreversal.org/episode-22-release-the-footage-justiceforstevielee/

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