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.

The battles of the militant Builders Labourers’ Federation in the mid 1980s
The historic protests against Australia’s Bicentennial celebrations in 1988
The mass protests against the AIDEX arms fair in 1991, and the US-Australian invasions of Iraq in 1991 and 2003
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).

Contribute to this project by clicking on the Fundraiser link above. Any amount will help get more of Tanya’s amazing audio archive online, by helping pay for digitisation and website costs.

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