Selected content from Rights, Rorts and Rants broadcast weekly on Friday from 4pm to 6pm on community Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM or live streamed from rbm.org.au/. Hosted by Blue Mountains Unions & Community (Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc). Views expressed on our show and in our podcasts are not necessarily endorsed by BMUC.
Historian and author Prof Sean Scalmer shares his insights and discusses his book "A Fair Day's Work - The Quest to Win Back Time" with Deb Smith for Radio Blue Mountains listeners.
The Blackheath History Forum (https://blackheathhistoryforum.org.au/2026-2/) have invited him to speak on Sunday 1st November 2026 from 4pm at the Gardner's Inn Blackheath. Tickets at the door, or prebooking via Humanitix (https://events.humanitix.com/sean-scalmer).
The event is called "Sean Scalmer - A Fair Day's Work: An Australian History".
His book can be bought at local bookshops, at the event, online from Melbourne University Publishing (https://www.mup.com.au/books/a-fair-day-s-work/9780522880816), or a digital version via EBooks (https://www.ebooks.com/en-au/book/346465532/a-fair-day-s-work/sean-scalmer/).
The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 30th October 2026.
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28 Oct 2026
Remembering Stephen Jones, a pioneer of experimental video art and music.
In this interview Fran Dyson pays tribute to Stephen Jones one of the most important electronic and video artists in Australia and a pioneer of the use of video synthesiser in the famous group Severed Heads.
Tragically Stephen died on the 8th of October 2026 following an assault outside his studio in Sydney.
Fran was a friend of Stephen's and recorded an interview with him which she broadcast on Rights, Rorts and Rants in May 2020. That interview is available on a podcast called "1. Stephen Jones - video synthesising. Plus the early days of DoubleJ and the explosion of art and politics in 1970s Sydney".
In this interview Fran pays tribute to Stephen's ground breaking creative work using video with live music performance, the beginning of today's music videos, and his generous nature. Extracts played from her 2020 interview in his studio give us Stephen himself discussing his life and work starting at the beginning in 1970s Darlinghurst.
The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 16 October 2026.
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Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc (http://l.ead.me/bmuc), 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW.
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30 Sept 2026
Bosses Taking Freebies From Workers
We talk to Thomas Costa, the newly elected Secretary of Unions NSW (https://unionsnsw.org.au/), the peak body for unions in NSW. The discussion covers issues such as the union campaign against the growing culture of unpaid overtime (https://unionsnsw.org.au/campaign/give-workers-their-time-back/) and then we ask about housing.
Following this, a discussion between Wil Tricity, Nick Franklin and Peter Lammiman - members of Blue Mountains Unions and Community and hosts of this and another Radio Blue Mountains show (https://www.rbm.org.au/shows/definitely-not-wil-on-the-wireless) - share personal experiences of unpaid work, housing and how union membership and activism helped them win.
This episode was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 25th September 2026.
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Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to, and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded.
Disclaimer: We seek a range of perspectives but that means that views expressed in these podcasts are not necessarily endorsed by the Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc (http://l.ead.me/bmuc).
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