3CR Community Radio 12 -hour broadcast in celebration of International Day of People with Disability Thursday December 3rd 2009

855AM on the dial. Streaming Live at

TIME / Broadcast Segment / Featuring
6am-7am /

Welcome to the day

/ Faaolo Utumapu
Highlights from The Field Great Debate - Is Life Improving for People with Disabilities? / Stella Young (No Limits)
Julie Phillips (Manager, Disability Discrimination Legal Centre)Disability Discrimination Legal Service)
David Craig (Executive Officer,Action for Community Living)
Adam Jones- (Volunteer Solicitor, Disability Discrimination Legal Service)
7am-8.30am / The Breakfast Show:
Presented by Helen Gwilliam and Rachel O'Connell
News, analysis interviews
and events / Tom Shakespeare (Sociologist-Research Fellow at Newcastle University)
Rebecca Feldman (Project Officer,Youth Disability Advisory Service)
Carman Parsons (Referrals Access and Equity Policy Officer at Victoria Legal Aid)
Chris Morris (Contributor to a new disability online community, DiVine)
Adaptive Tech Talk with Scott Nixon and Deb Lewis (Statewide Vision Resource Centre)
8.30am -9.30am / Building Better Lives Campaign to change human service policy and practice related to young people in nursing homes (YPINH) / "Somewhere to live, Someone to love and Something to do" with Stuart, Jason, Anje and Michelle (Summer Foundation)
Youth Disability Advocacy Services (YDAS) / Rebecca, Stuart, Jess and Liz talk about the situation facing people with disabilities trying to access Uni's and Tafe's
9.30am – 11am /

Talkback with Attitude

dedicated to a discussion on disability issues.
Call in on (03) 9419 0155 and talk to the panel / Kerry Presser- National Disability Services Victoria
Adam Jones- Volunteer Solicitor, Disability Discrimination Legal Service
Denise Allen - former State Member of Parliament
Anne and Lillian's story – Anne and Lilian became friends 20 years ago when they met through a program that matched people leaving long term institutional care with people in the community, to foster friendships. Anne and Lilian talk about their friendship.
11am-12pm / Disability sports and culture / Kon Kiryakudya (President of Wheelchair Handball Victoria) and a DJ with Club Wild.).
Aussie Hands / Elizabeth Serpell (vVice-pPresident) and Kate Doughty (patron) talk about the Melbourne -based Aussie Hands Foundation, which supports and provides information for people born with a hand difference.
Compass Clubhouse / Angela, Cameron and Tanya talk about this unique club in Northcote for people recovering from Acquired Brain Injury, where the members run the club and manage their own recovery.
Jim Blake / Landscape designer and musician from Lakes Entrance in Gippsland, Victoria. Five years ago Jim had an accident which left him with quadriplegia and changed everything about his life. Jim shares his story and his blues -singing and harmonica
12pm-1.30pm / Live Outside Broadcast from Access My Ability - a joint Travellers Aid and Wheelchair Sports Victoria event at Melbourne's Federation Square to raise awareness and to acknowledge the abilities and achievements of people with a disability in the wider community. / Kon Kiryakudya and Helen Gwilliam in discussion speaks with Wheelchair Sports Victoria CEO Rob Anderson and Travellers aid CEO Jodie Willmer
Paul Gianni and Phineas Meere andPaul Gianni (The Boldness/ Grit Media) in discussion within discussion with Alan Blackwood (MS Society) on the Shut Out Report
Bronwyn Morkham (Australian Federation of Disability Organisations) on the Shut Out Report and the UN Convention on Rights for People with Disabilities.
David Web (Australian Federation of Disability Organisations) on the UN Convention on Rights for People with Disabilities
Garry Prigg Paul Deany (CMS) on International development and People with Disabilities (The Cerebral Palsy Education Centre) and
Paul Deany program officer with the Disability Rights Fund on International development and People with Disabilities.
1.30 -2pm / Shut In - a campaign to close all institutions in Victoria and replace them with support and housing in the community / People with an intellectual disability talk about the campaign. Ray Groves, Jane Houser, Des McIntosh and Luke Stone from AMIDA and Reinforce Self Advocacy groups.
2pm-3pm / Radio Electric Recording Project / Twelve people with intellectual disability recorded a series of eight short sound pieces including a radio play, collages of spoken word with music as well as some songs. Anthony and Rose Turtle Ertler. Intro by Janice Florence
Sue O’Neill and Brimbank Multicultural Community Choir / Founding member of the Brimbank Multicultural Community Choir Sue told her story of independent living and taking part in community life.
Intro by Janice Florence
Selene Mathews and Akash Temple / A collaboration between Selene and producer Akash Temple creates a unique orchestration of urban poetry and trip hop
3pm-5.304pm
4pm-5pm
5pm-6.30pm / Rebecca Maxwell / Melbourne based author of “Blind and Busy: Life Stories of People who use Braille” and past president of the Society of Women Writers. Rebecca speaks about the importance of braille and the barriers between society and the visually impaired. Intro By Anthony Riddell
Faaolo Utumapu Faaolo Utumapo and Gerrard Gosens / Faaolo is a post-graduate student from Samoa who interviewed Gerrard Gosens, paralympian, distant runnercyclist and g adventureroalballer,, about his recent experiences on Dancing with the Stars.
Matthew Bowden / The Last Taboo - the sexual rights of people with disability.
Matthew is Executive Director of People with Disability Australia.
Recorded as part of the first national conference of the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Jason Anderson / Jason is an advocate for appropriate supported housing for young people with disabilities. He spoke to 3CR about the challenges disability or serious illness present for marriage and relationships.
Jody Saxton-Barney / Jody is a proud Urangin/Birri-Gubba Deaf woman from South East Queensland. Now living and working in rural Victoria, Jody is a descendent and survivor of the stolen generation, working to improve the quality of life and communication for Ddeaf Iindigenous people. She started her own business ‘Deaf Indigenous Community Consultancy’ to advocate and train services on how work can be culturally appropriate and effective. Jody spoke to 3CR about the needs of deaf indigenous communities.
Patricia Woodcroft-Lee
Life with a disability in East Timor / Patricia has low vision and has volunteered over the past few years to support people with vision impairments in East Timor, and particularly the school for the blind Fuan Nabilan. Patricia talks about the challenges for people with visual impairment or blindness in Timor, the unwillingness of aid agencies to recruit people with disabilities to work overseas and transfer their skills, and misunderstanding about Albinism (Albino), the condition which lead to her own low vision.
Angelino Benevides from Ahisaun Disabilities Foundation spoke at Strengthening Disability Advocacy Conference Disability Advocacy Resource Unit (DARU), Self-Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU) and Victorian Disability Advocacy Network (VDAN).
Kate Hood / Kate Hood is a writer and voiceover artist, and reads one of her short stories, based in her own experience of disability.
Anne Carson / Melbourne author and poet Anne Carson has been writing and performing for a number of years, and has a strong commitment to raising awareness of the needs of people with disability through her art. Anne has written a book fictionalising her long friendship with and advocacy for a woman with intellectual disability, and gave a reading for 3CR for International Day of People with Disabilities.
Maree Cowan / Maree Cowan is an activist for bipolar disorder and has written a collection of poetry about her own experiences with mental illness. Maree read seven of her poems that describe her own journey with bipolar.
Wesabi / Wesabi offers peer support for people with ABI or stroke in the western suburbs, and clients of the SCOPE St Albans day program. Ria, George, Mal, Larissa and Barry recorded their stories.
5.306pm-6.030pm / Melbourne ensemble Tihai with their performance of the classical Hindustani Raga – Kirawani / Tihai are Girish Makwana (on tabla) Savvy Battacharya (sarod) & Nicholas Buff (saxophone) Recorded live in the studios of 3CR especially for the day.

The 12 hour broadcast was funded by the City of Melbourne MetroAccess Initiative, a partnership between Local Government and the Department of Human Services