Ballbusters, Appointment of Dr Gary Johns to ACNC, Documenting Massacres, Jerusalem, Transforming narratives

Thursday Breakfast

Ballbusters - Speaks about their upcoming show on Saturday December 16thCam Walker - Campaigns co-ordinator Friends of the Earth- Talking about the mayor concern expressed in the social sector at the appointment of Dr Gary Johns – considered a staunch critic of charities, as the new commissioner of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC). There is a petition started by concerned members of the sector and supported by ALP member Andrew Leigh.Prof. Lyndall Ryan - Centre for the History of Violence and Centre for the 21st Century Humanities at the University of Newcastle - Alongside her research team are creating an online interactive map documenting massacres site locations, details of the individual massacres and, the sources corroborating evidence of the massacres - released in July http://thenamesofplaces.com/tnop/Reyadh al-Adassi - Public Relations Officer - Palestinian Community Association of Victoria - Talking about Trump's plans to relocate the US Embassy to Jerusalem and the solidarity march opposing Trump's decisionDr Micaela Sahhar - Australian-Palestinian poet and academic - Her PhD focused on the impact of Israeli national narrative in Western media reporting of two 21st century assaults on the Occupied Palestine Territories while more recently her work looked at comparisons of Israeli and Australian settler-colonial paradigms as well as ideas of subterranean forms of resistance in vanishing landscapes, both conceptual and geographical. Sary Zananiri - Australian-Palestinian artist and academic - his PhD looked at the ways in which biblical frameworks colour the imaging of the Palestinian landscape and more recently he has been researching the masculinity and transgression in the Middle Eastern.