<![CDATA[Paradigm Shift]]> Every Friday at noon, we challenge the assumptions of our current society, to resist oppression and investigate alternative ways of living for a world based on justice, solidarity and sustainability.

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]]> en Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:19:59 +1000 https://4zzz.org.au/programs/paradigm-shift/ <![CDATA[Paradigm Shift]]> https://amrap-pages-image.s3.amazonaws.com/profile/145.jpg?cacbeb=40821763 4ZZZ info@4zzz.org.au Every Friday at noon, we challenge the assumptions of our current society, to resist oppression and investigate alternative ways of living for a world based on justice, solidarity and sustainability.

Follow the Paradigm Shift on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/PShiftonZed/

]]> https://4zzz.org.au/programs/paradigm-shift/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/4zzz/2026-06-26-12-00.mp3 <![CDATA[26th of June]]> Today we hear from people resisting the weapons industry and it's deadly products across this country. I speak to Safaa Rayan about the recent 72 hour blockade of Bisalloy in Wollongong, and to Zelda Grimshaw about the national coordinated protests against companies that make parts for F35 fighter jets. Plus some local weapons resistance!

  • Songs played
  • Lowkey - Hand on your gun
  • Red Menace - Disrupt wars 2024
  • Asian Dub Foundation - Target practice
  • Bassmumma - Peru Block 64
]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift/2026-06-26 12:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/4zzz/2026-06-19-12-00.mp3 <![CDATA[19th of June]]> This week we explore a bit of the hisotry of Australian environmental blockading and the songs that soundtracked it.

  • Songs played
  • Lisa Yeates - Behind enemy lines
  • Goanna - Let the Franklin flow
  • Mick Daley - The ballad of wild cattle creek
  • Penny Safari - Do you remember Jabiluka
  • Zippy - Are you gonna let them mine Jabiluka?
  • Luke Vassella - Leave it in the ground
  • Tunnel Vision - No tunnel no way
  • Feraliza - Like it or not
]]> Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift/2026-06-19 12:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/4zzz/2026-06-12-12-00.mp3 <![CDATA[12th of June]]> On this week's classic episode, we go back to 2023 when I spoke to Sam Roggeveen about his book "The Echidna Strategy" and its call for a reframing of Australia's defence priorities and a questioning of the US alliance.

  • Songs played
  • Cranky - Australia don't become america
  • Ginger Tom - Hey hey USA
  • Buffy Saint-Marie - The war racket
  • Bad Day Down - I'd hate to be a hated American
  • Beans On Toast - Against the war
]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift/2026-06-12 12:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/4zzz/2026-06-05-12-00.mp3 <![CDATA[5th of June]]> Today on the Paradigm Shift we speak to musician Chris Dubrow - most famous as singer and songwriter of 90s industrial band Insurge. We speak about his experience of decades mixing music and radical politics.

  • Songs played
  • Soulscraper - Heard it all before
  • Insurge - Political prisoners
  • Insurge - Speculator
  • Insurge - Economist king
  • Blackbreaks - Terra Nullius
  • C54 - Corporate dogs
]]> Fri, 5 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift/2026-06-05 12:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/4zzz/2026-05-29-12-00.mp3 <![CDATA[29th of May]]> This week we talk about the eviction happening as we go to air of the Goorie Embassy at Barrambin/Victoria Park. We also check in on the many upcoming radical events happening around town.

  • Songs played
  • Yothu Yindi - Mabo
  • No Fixed Address - We have survived
  • Dancing Water - War
  • Ursula - Save Barrambin
  • Rivermouth - Flood city
  • Arrested Development - Children play with earth
  • Genesis Owusu - Pirate radio
  • The Rebel Riot - Spring nightmare
]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 13:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift/2026-05-29 12:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/4zzz/2026-05-22-12-00.mp3 <![CDATA[22nd of May]]> Today we speak to historian John Murphy about the history of welfare policy in Australia - from wage arbitration a century and a half ago to current debates about the NDIS.

  • Songs played
  • Dick Diver - Newstart again
  • Warumpi Band - Sitdown money
  • Small fantasy - DSS
  • Insurge - Welfare state
]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 13:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift/2026-05-22 12:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/4zzz/2026-05-15-12-00.mp3 <![CDATA[15th of May]]> Today on the show we hear from two different people who are bringign hope where it might have seemed there was none. Matt Singleton from the Odonata Foundation speaks about their attempts to bring back the Eastern Barred Bandicoot from the brink of extinction. And Erica Lloyd-Smith speaks about the Forgotten Refugees Support Group, who are working with refugees stuck in Indonesia.

  • Songs played
  • Blackbird Raum - Silent spring
  • Gurridyula ft Leon Namai - Fight for nature
  • Ducks In The Mud - Song for Darfur
  • Archie Roach - A child was born here
  • Tamikrest - Imanin
]]> Fri, 15 May 2026 13:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift/2026-05-15 12:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/4zzz/2026-05-08-12-00.mp3 <![CDATA[8th of May]]> Today we are talking about Living More With Less - a good philosophy and also the name of a project by married couple Jon and Emilie. They are documenting their family's attempts to live sustainably, generously and fulfillingly.

  • Songs played
  • Melissa Carper and Rebecca Patek - I can't lose what I don't have
  • Scott Cook and Pamela Mae - Enough
  • Fugazi - Merchandise
  • Carsie Blanton - I don't mind failing in this world
  • Hen Ogledd - Scales will fall
]]> Fri, 8 May 2026 13:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift/2026-05-08 12:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/4zzz/2026-05-01-12-00.mp3 <![CDATA[1st of May]]> Today, in the spirit of the original May Day activists, we are asking the question: should we be working less? I speak to Adrian McMahon about the case for the four day work week, and we hear a bit from the late David Graeber about the phenomenon of “bullshit jobs”.

  • Songs played
  • The Ramones - It's not my place (in the 9 to 5 world)
  • Culture Shock - Doesn't work for me
  • Jenny Pineapple - Rock against work
  • Ecowar - Work
  • Phil Monsour - Days roll on
]]> Fri, 1 May 2026 13:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift/2026-05-01 12:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/4zzz/2026-04-24-12-00.mp3 <![CDATA[24th of April]]> Today on the Paradigm Shift we hear from the Goori Embassy which have pitched tents at Barrambin/Victoria Park in an attempt to protect that place from being cleared to make way for an Olympic stadium. We also speak to Jane Grigg from the Ibisa Organising Collective who have been creatively connecting people to Barrambin.

  • Songs played
  • MC Triks and bAbE Sun - We still right here
  • Ancestress - One by one
  • Ursula - Save Victoria Park Barrambin
  • Sportchestra! - The choice is yours
  • Green Ban'd Magandjin - Green bans forever Magandjin
]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift/2026-04-24 12:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/4zzz/2026-04-17-12-00.mp3 <![CDATA[17th of April]]> Today it's part two of our series on Queensland's new Palestine censorship laws. I speak to Remah Naji from Justice For Palestine Magandjin about what these prohibited chants are actually about and how they plan to resist the laws, and to the father-son combo who have both challenged them already - Jim Dowling who was arrested for holding a sign, and Franz Dowling who had his house raided and electronic devices seized for putting up a banner.

  • Songs played
  • Shadi Zaqtan - All their names
  • Fatuma - Freedom
  • Franz James - Masters of war
  • John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John - Two strong hearts
]]> Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift/2026-04-17 12:00:00/