Welcome to
Radio Tanya
Tanya on the megaphone at the mass civil disobedience protests that disrupted the AIDEX weapons trade fair in Canberra, November 1991.
Photo: Leo Bild (via the Commons Social Change Library).
Tanya McConvell has fought alongside a lot of people – workers, refugees, First Nations people, anti-war activists, everyone.
Over the years, Tanya recorded many of the fighters and organisers at the centre of these struggles – as well as giving some of the sharpest political speeches you’ll hear.
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The battles of the militant Builders Labourers’ Federation in the mid 1980s
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The historic protests against Australia’s Bicentennial celebrations in 1988
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The mass protests against the AIDEX arms fair in 1991, and the US-Australian invasions of Iraq in 1991 and 2003
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The heroic struggles of refugees in Australia’s detention centres in the early 2000s
You’ll find voices from all these struggles, and many more, on Radio Tanya – along with Tanya’s raps, rabble-rousing, and radio shows (especially from her time at Canberra’s community radio station 2XX).
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