A national feminist current affairs program for community radio. A gender analysis of contemporary issues, as well as in-depth analysis by a range of women and gender diverse people around Australia and internationally. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network (CRN).
From the Archives: Women for Survival and anti-militarist campaigning in the 1980s
This week we wander through the Women on the Line archives, revisiting our show's coverage of the Women for Survival movement that emerged from the historic Pine Gap Women's Peace Camp in 1983.Through archival recordings from 1986 and 1987, we hear women on the airwaves document the feminist, anti-nuclear, and anti-militarist movements of the time, tracing connections between women's resistance, refusal and renewal and alternatives to patriarchal colonial power. The women's movement of the time connected with and joined First Nations struggles for land back, and opposition to US military and imperial power on this continent.We hear audio from the 1986 protests against Pine Gap in Canberra and Naarm/Melbourne and the 1987 protest outside Pine Gap in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. More than 600 people gathered at the gates to hear from Arrente, other Aboriginal people and peace activists from around the world give speeches on October 19, 1987. Police arrested 98 people for entering the base that day. A group of 10 grandparents, including Wiradjuri activist Mum Shirl, were arrested the following day during another attempt to deliver the eviction notice.Forty years on, as we heard in our September episode documenting the Pine Gap Convergence 2026, these struggles remain strong today, as movements continue to organise against the militarisation of First Nations lands and the ongoing operations of Pine Gap. *Listeners are advised that this episode includes the voice of Wiradjuri legend Mum Shirl, who has passed.
Dacia Abela is a lawyer and economic abuse specialist from Naarm who has a decade of experience working in the not-for-profit community legal centre space. Dacia is on the show this week to tell us how housing insecurity is linked to family violence, reducing the financial impact on victim survivors, and how she is working with the Economic Abuse Reference Group to shift the way we think about keeping victim survivors and their children living in their homes.
13 Sept 2026
Making surrogacy more ethical and feminist
Sarah Jefford OAM is a family creation lawyer, who helps families across Australia with surrogacy, donor conception and co-parenting arrangements. Sarah is an IVF mum, an egg donor and a surrogate, and has written the only guide to surrogacy in Australia.Sarah joins us on this episode of Women on the Line to discuss her surrogacy experience, what exploitation of surrogates can look like and putting practical protections in place, surrogacy in other countries and the links to human trafficking, and how best to improve Australia’s surrogacy laws to be more ethical.
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