Race Matters / Know Your "Rights"

12.04.26
A photo of the Race Matters team taken in a rear view or "blindside" mirror. A bunch of people of colour huddled together looking at the mirror some of them are smiling and making peace signs with their hands.
Aired on 12.04.26, 10:00am

Janey Li and Yvonne Hong reflect on the complexities of the increased policing and criminalisation of protest and movement work in the australian settler-colony in this current moment. They also talk to lawyer Bernadette Zaydan to clarify some of the facts around the recent changes in the anti-protest and hatespeech laws.

Over the hour, they open up a space to consider: how can we create relations and infrastructures of care for ourselves and our communities, as we show up to and are forced to encounter the policing regime?

Produced by Samantha Haran and Prinita Thevarajah, with additional support from Shareeka Helaluddin.

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