Victorian Eviction Moratorium, AUWU: JobMaker Hiring Credit, JobKeeper and job security, Decolonial Hacker, Evelyn Araluen’s Dropbear

Acknowledgement of Country Jack, a delegate from the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU), spoke with us to provide an update about the eviction moratorium, which prevents landlords in Victoria evicting tenants for rental arrears. Kristin O'Connell, spokesperson for the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union, joins us to discuss the Jobmaker hiring credit and the end of the JobKeeper wage subsidy and COVID-19 JobSeeker supplement in light of the current Senate inquiry into job security. Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, founding editor of the institutional critique platform Decolonial Hacker and curatorial assistant at the Julia Stoschek Collection, discusses Decolonial Hacker. Eugene is a writer based in Berlin, whose work has appeared in Art+Australia, Griffith Review, The Saturday Paper, Running Dog, and PW-MAGAZINE, among others.  Evelyn Araluen joins us to speak about her debut collection of poetry, Dropbear. Evelyn is a poet, researcher and co-editor of the Overland literary journal. She has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship. Evelyn was born and raised on Dharug Country and she descends from the Bundjalung Nation.  SongsHeatsink - imbi and Slim SetBones - TelenovaTwo Lovers - Tia GostelowCruisin’ - Emily Wurramurra