Drugs & the Death Sentence II Social v Affordable Housing II QU & Boeing II This is the Week II Bendigo Street Report

Drugs & the Death Sentence here II 3cr's Judith Peppard
reporting from the Harm Reduction International Conference held in
Melbourne recently. This report is based on an interview with
cultural antrhropology and public health practitioners Belinda and
Jeff Lewis on their reflections around drugs, the 'Bali 9'
& the subsequent execution of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan
as a fruitless exercise in drug use control.Social v Affordable
Housing here II Deb Di Natalie, CEO of the Council for Homeless
People, outlines their plan for the Victorian Government to move
1000s of 'affordable' houses onto the 'social housing' register.QU
& Boeing here II The arms dealer Boeing has a large stake in
supporting programs at Queensland University. We talk with Wage
Peace activist Margret Pestorius about a recent action at the
Queensland University Senate meeting to bring home the University's
role in normalising on-going war by taking money from Boeing.This
is the Week here II Kevin Healy cuts open the week with the knife
of satire.Bendigo Street Report here II Kelly Whitworth and Mike
Collins, authors of the report Housing,  Activism and Local
Government: The Bendigo Street Occupation - a case Study, come
and talk about the issues uncovered in the report and alert us to
the launch: Tuesday May 2, 6-7.30 pm Melbourne School of Design,
Melbourne University. Go to the Melbourne School of Design website
for zoom link.