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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

04/09/2025

Morning Zedtolians! Han in the studio with you this morn, and I've got a great convo for you all with Gamilaroi scholar Dr Tamika Worrell, who lives and works on and was grown up by Dharug Ngurra (Country). She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Critical Indigenous Studies at Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University. Her research interests are in Indigenous representation, Indigenous higher education success, education more broadly and digital lives, including artificial intelligence. It's AI that we focus on in today's chat, digging into Indigenist critiques and understandings of this increasingly ubiquitous technology. We're on air 9–10amn Thursdays on 102.1FM 4ZZZ, or catch up on-demand at https://4zzz.org.au/program/radio-reversal/2025-09-04%2009:00:00

AI: An Insect image by Lyric Morris-Latchaw: https://www.instagram.com/studio.lyric/

27/08/2025

Good morning Zedheads!

Today on the show we are very honoured to be bringing you an interview with the incredible Dr. Samah Jabr - د. سماح جبر, recorded on her recent tour of so-called australia.

Dr Samah Jabr is a Palestinian Jerusalemite psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer, and former Head of the Mental Health Unit in the Ministry of Health, Palestine. She has written columns about the psychological consequences of the Israeli occupation in Palestine since the 2000s. Inspired by anticolonial psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, her areas of interest include mental health, colonialism and universal human rights.

In this interview, Anna speaks with Dr Jabr about the specific impacts of colonial violence and trauma, the inadequacy of mainstream western psychiatric approaches to understanding those impacts, and the issues in rendering deliberately inflicted collective trauma in the terms of individual illness or pathology. They also discuss what healing from colonial violence can look like, and the importance of agency and collective and community-based processes.

Dr Samah Jabr also spoke with Anna a bit about her new book, "Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The global reverberation of Palestinian historical trauma" (link below!) which you should absolutely check out. This collection of essays draws on Dr Jabr's years of experience working at the intersection of mental health and struggles for liberation.

It's a great interview, digging into difficult and important matters. Grab a cuppa, settle in, we'll be bringing you this and new, local music, from 9-10am on 4ZZZ.

13/08/2025

Good morning Zedly Ones!! It is RADIOTHON - 4ZZZ's annual subscriber drive, the time of year when we ask you to subscribe to 4ZZZ to support the work this station does. It's a particularly special Radiothon show this year because we are also kicking off 4ZZZ's 50th birthday celebration! That's right, 4ZZZ has been in your ears for 50 years, bringing you new and local music, and agitating, educating, organising, and amplifying brisbane.

Sign up to be part of the next 50 years of community powered radio (see link below). AND of course by signing up during Radiothon you are going in the running to win some fantastic prizes, and you'll also get a sub card that gives you rad discounts to sub discount outlets, cheap entry to 4ZZZ gigs and BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS, and, of course, the warm inner glow of supporting local, independent, community media.

For our RADIOTHON show today Anna and Nat are in the studio to lay some groundwork for a series we'll be running intermittently over the next few months on pop culture and fascist affects, and the ways that pop culture and media can circulate, launder, and normalise fascist ideas. Recognising how this happens, and excavating and unlearning these ideas where they've taken root, is, we think, part of the essential work that needs doing, as we look forward to what the next 50 years will demand of us.

SO! Tune in from 9-10am on 4ZZZ 102.1FM, and head to the link below to SUBSCRIBE to 4ZZZ. We could not do this without you. Subscribe and help us celebrate the past 50 years of community-powered radio, and to be part of the next 50 years 🎙📻

06/08/2025

Wassup Zedheads! Tune in from 9am today, when Anna and Jonno will be talking about trans rights, the political evolution of the Queensland Greens, and transphobic conspiracy theories.

Recently, one of the founders of the Greens, Drew Hutton, was expelled from the party following a series of Facebook posts that attracted complaints of transphobia. So what should we do when people in our communities start sharing or platforming content that amounts to anti-trans dogwhistling? And what does it say about the evolution of the Greens that the party is taking such strong action in response to anti-trans rhetoric?

To dig into this, we’ll be catching up with Necho “Victory to the People” Brocchi, proud trans woman, trans and q***r advocate and law student, to talk about the impact of rising transphobia on trans young people, and how we can challenge transphobic dogwhistling whenever it crops up. And we'll be having a big think about how we can build movements and communities that allow space for people to learn and grow, to ask questions, and to change their mind...while still holding each other accountable for disingenuous, dangerous and dehumanising dogwhistling.

Lots to dig into, and as always, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Text us in the studio on 0420 626 733 or give us a call while we’re playing a track on 3252 1555.

Listen live on 4ZZZ 102.1FM or online via the links in the comments!

23/07/2025

Good morning zedheads! Tune in from 9am - 10am this morning as we welcome SUPER SPECIAL GUEST Professor Chelsea Watego to the airwaves. We're catching up with Prof Watego to talk about her new book, "Black Thoughts Matter", set to be released next month. Black Thoughts Matter is published by Common Room Editions in Naarm, and it brings together over a decade of Prof Watego's popular public scholarship - from op-eds, to short essays, to speech transcripts and interviews.

The text is a call to arms for Black intellectuals and their comrades; and a powerful assertion of the joy to be found in Black Knowing. It's funny, incisive, and bold - and it foregrounds the role that "nerds on the frontline" can play in the ongoing struggle for Indigenous liberation - on this continent and worldwide. In a time of growing academic repression, censorship and coercion, Watego sets out a bold manifesto for Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty in the present conjuncture.

If you want to get a peak between the covers or hear Prof Watego talking about her work and its significance in this moment, this is the show for you! Tune in to 102.1fm live this morning, or listen back on demand https://4zzz.org.au/program/radio-reversal

16/07/2025

Good morning Zedheads! This morning on Radio Reversal we are joined by Hope (she/they), one of the organisers of Magandjin People's Pride, to talk about the amazing community Pride event coming up this Saturday 19th July, and the importance of q***r community, q***r events, and q***r spaces.

We have a big chat about Magandjin People’s Pride’s demands for getting cops and corporations out of Pride events, the dangers of pinkwashing and co-option, the limits of piecemeal reforms and gains that fall short of liberation, and the importance of attending to intersectionality within q***r communities.

We also talk a bit about the importance of inclusive and accessible q***r spaces in a time when young trans people in particular are being targeted by the QLD Government through their ban on puberty blockers, and in the shadow of the Federal Government’s review of gender affirming care and puberty blockers for trans young people. And of course, we also talk about the People’s Pride festivities on Saturday - the rally and march kicking of at 1pm in King George Square, followed by panel discussions, a weaving workshop, market stalls, and live music and performances from 2pm at Jagera Hall, Musgrave Park. Link for tickets below - pay if you can, free tickets available.

Tune in from 9-10am on 4ZZZ for our chat with Hope along with lots of new and local music, or listen back on demand via the 4ZZZ website 📻💻

09/07/2025

Friends! Tune in this morning from 9am - 10am for a NAIDOC week special show feat. our dear friend and comrade Kevin Yow Yeh! We'll talk a bit about the history and origin of NAIDOC week, and the long lineage of Indigenous resistance and resurgence on this continent. We'll also reflect a little on what it means to mark NAIDOC week this year in the shadow of the recent death in police custody of Kumanjayi White, as well as talking through some of the initial findings of the coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker after he was shot by Constable Zachary Rolfe in Yuendumu in 2019. If we have time, we might even get a chance to play another incredible speech from the most recent Black Deaths In Custody rally here in Magan-djin from our dear friend, Mununjahli and South Sea Islander Professor Chelsea Watego. As always - a jam packed show, with lots of excellent local First Nations music, as well as plenty of chances for you to tell us what you think! Get in touch with us here, or via text on 0420 626 733 !

25/06/2025

G'day Zedgends! This morning on Radio Reversal we're returning to one of our favourite topics to rant about - the state government’s imaginary “youth crime crisis,” the “Adult Crime, Adult Time” laws, and the creeping carceral expansion that we’re watching unfold in the present moment under an electoral mandate of “community safety.”

We are thrilled to be joined in the studio this morning by CJ from 4zzz's long running prisoner support program Locked In. We're chatting to CJ about some work she's been doing to develop a searchable database of media reporting on the (imaginary) "youth crime crisis" here in Queensland, to better understand the media's role in constructing the moral panic about youth crime that has served as the basis for this year's series of dystopian law reforms, including the expansion of police search powers under "Jack's Laws", the expansion of the Adult Crime, Adult Time legislation to include a total of 33 offences, and the recent proposal to re-criminalise public drunkenness and public urination.

Lots to dig into this week - and as usual, if you have thoughts, questions, song requests or queries on anything we talk about on the show, please get in touch here or via the studio text line - 0420 626 733.

18/06/2025

Good morning Zedheads! Tune into 102.1fm this morning from 9am - 10am as Anna is joined in the studio by super special guests - Caspian & Jayden from the Anti-Poverty Network of South East Queensland to talk about ***POVERTY***

We’re going to talk a bit about what poverty is, and why it exists (spoiler alert: the answer is colonial racial capitalism), as well as hearing from Caspian and Jayden about the upcoming People Against Poverty Summit, happening this weekend here in Magan-djin, so-called brisbane. They'll reflect a bit on why it’s so important for people across this continent (and indeed, globally) to build movements that can challenge both the CRIMINALISATION of poverty, and the social and political systems that allow so many people to struggle for the necessity while others are allowed to hoard wealth, resources, and power.

Towards the end of the show, we'll be catching up with long-time Aboriginal rights activist Adrian Burragubba to talk about a particularly urgent example of the state working to criminalise poverty - and the devastating consequences that come from it. Adrian is one of the organisers of a community meeting that's been called for Friday 20th June at 11am at Jagera Hall in West End in response to the state government's announcement that they are considering RE-CRIMINALISING public drunkenness. We'll talk to Adrian about why these announcements are so concerning, given the evidence that laws like these do nothing but punish and criminalise already-over-policed people, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people sleeping rough.

As always - a huge show! We'd love to hear from you if you've got thoughts, questions, or song requests...bonus points if they're in some way thematically linked to today's topic!

Listen in live or catch up on demand at https://4zzz.org.au/program/radio-reversal

11/06/2025

Morning Zedthians, hope you are looking after yourselves during these intense times!

On today's show we play excerpts from Saturday's Magan-djin gathering in response to the tragic news that a young Walpiri man from the community of Yuendumu had been killed in an interaction with off-duty police officers in a supermarket in Mparntwe, Alice Springs. Kumanjayi White was a vulnerable young man who is mourned by his family and community. He died after being restrained by off-duty police officers in an interaction that is eerily similar to the murder of George Floyd five years ago. The police officers who restrained him have yet to be stood down by the NT Police, and no announcements have been made regarding an inquiry into his death.

All across the continent, communities have mobilised to demand that the institutions and individuals who are responsible for his death face accountability. Kumanjayi White’s family, include his Grandfather, the venerable Elder and activist Uncle Ned Hardgraves, have renewed their calls to disarm police across the Northern Territory. Almost four years ago, the Yuendumu community began the karrinjarla muwajarri campaign to demand a police ceasefire across the Northern Territory in response to the fatal shooting of Kumanjayi Walker by Constable Zachary Rolfe in 2019. They wrote:

"We do not want any more reports or inquiries that are not acted on. We already hold the answers and strategies we need. We do not want any more consultations with governments who do not listen to us.

"We demand our self determination, our rightful decision making authority, and our resources to be restored to us. This is a list of our demands. What we are calling for is karrinjarla muwajarri, a police ceasefire. Indefinitely."

Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991, there have been nearly 600 deaths. This year alone, 11 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody. Not a single person has ever been held accountable. Right now, police are investigating themselves over Kumanjayi White’s death. The officers involved remain on duty — carrying on like it’s business as usual.

Families are reeling from trauma after trauma. Yuendumu is grieving the recent death of Kumanjayi White while still awaiting the findings from the coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker. In today's episode we hear from Wanjiriburra and Birri Gubba activist and film-maker Sam Watson, Gungarri woman and academic Dr. Raylene Nixon — mother of Stevie-Lee Nixon McKellar who died in police custody in Toowoomba, and Wakka Wakka and South Sea Islander man Kevin Yow Yeh.

Tune in 9–10am on 102.1FM 4ZZZ, catch up on-demand at https://4zzz.org.au, and listen to our podcast episodes at https://radioreversal.substack.com

Photo by Studio 9001.

04/06/2025

Good morning Zed Universe! Tune in this morning from 9am - 10am for a HUGE show here on Radio Reversal, looking at some of the ways that people in our community are working against the forces that aim to normalise colonial and racial violence.

It's a heavy time for this conversation, and a crucial time. It's day 607 of the most recent wave of genocidal violence in occupied Palestine, and over 76 years since the Zionist occupation began with mass atrocities and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. It's also just a week after Kumanjayi White, a young Walpiri man who lived with complex disabilities, was killed after being restrained by off-duty cops in Mparrtwe, Alice Springs. Kumanjayi White’s death in police custody is the 597th Aboriginal death in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its findings in the 1990s - many of which, as senator Lidia Thorpe has consistently pointed out in Parliament, are yet to be implemented.

In response to these horrors, communities around the world are gathering together, refusing to stay silent, and refusing to allow this violence to be normalised or legitimised by the state.

We’ll kick off this week by reflecting on a really interesting autonomous action organised in solidarity with Palestine over the weekend by workers and performers at the Wickham Hotel, who downed tools and refused to take shifts or perform their sets because the venue had been provided to the State Zionist Council of Queensland for a social event. We’re going to have a chat to Oriela & Bizzi two of the organisers and performers who supported their comrades to withdraw their labour on the night, as well as Lulu LeMan, one of the performers who stopped mid-performance on Friday evening as workers began crisis talks to plan the picket for Saturday night. Later in the show, we’ll also have a chat to Ari Russell from Unionists for Palestine, to put this action in the broader context of workers organising against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Finally, towards the end of the show, we'll turn to the devastating news out of Mpartwe this week, as the community of Yuendumu is once again left grieving the death in police custody of a young Walpiri man, Kumanjayi White. Kumanjayi White was a vulnerable young man who is mourned by his family and community. He was killed in an interaction with NT police that is eerily similar to the one which led to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis almost exactly five years earlier. To get across the community response to this devastating news, we catch up with Wanjiriburra and Birri Gubba activist and film-maker Sam Watson to talk about some of the demands made by Kumanjayi White’s family, and how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities around the country are mobilising in response to his death.

As always - we welcome your thoughts and reflections. You can text us on 0420 626 733 or call us in the studio on 3252 1555, or get in touch here!

28/05/2025

Good Thursday Zedalytes! Han in the studio this morning, with an especially wonderful discussion to share with you between Anna and the incredible Joyrah Sebasio. Joyrah is a Bamaga woman and one of six artists shortlisted for this year's black&write Writing Fellowship for her poetry collection "Letters to Live By." There has been significant controversy around this fellowship, as just hours before the $15K award was due to be presented to 2025 recipient Martu writer Ren Wyld the ceremony was cancelled and Wyld's win rescinded, after Qld's government intervened citing a deleted tweet by Wyld in support of Palestinian resistance. Anna and Joyrah speak about this, and the ongoing importance of First Nations-Palestinian solidarity.

Joyrah Sebasio is a Bamaga woman who loves writing in Kala Lagaw Ya with her cultural parents Ama Matilda Bani, Awa Brian Whap and Nanu Kuthayg Sani Tamwoy. Joyrah’s existence and Creation stories are woven into Kala Lagaw Ya from Panay & Maydh on Mabuyag and Badu in Zenadth Kes. Joyrah is a young poet led by the footsteps of other renowned poets, authors, songwriters and knowledge holders from from Injinoo in Cape York and Tamwoy Town on Waibene.

Tune in from 9–10am on 4ZZZ 102.1FM or catch us live or on-demand at https://4zzz.org.au

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