Current affairs

Accent of Women project

The Accent of Women Outreach project will deliver a dynamic radio training course for up to seven women from culturally diverse, new and emerging communities. The training will take place on Saturday mornings starting 31 August through to 16 November. Each participant will receive a $600 honorarium at the end of the training course. Participants are required to meet all of the course requirements and have attended at least 75% of the training sessions to be eligible to receive the honorarium. 
 
Applications are open from 15 July to 5 August. Please send through this form and your CV to projects@3cr.org.au before 5pm on Monday 5 August.  

Accent of Women program brief

Accent of Women application form 

Beyond the Bars 2024 - artwork by Samuel, Gunaikurnai/Wirangu/Kokatha

Beyond the Bars is Australia’s only live prison radio series giving voice to First Nations inmates in Victorian jails. Across nearly 20 hours of broadcasting, we get to hear directly from those incarcerated about the issues that are important to them, along with their shout outs to family and friends. Listen live, or later. Artwork by Samuel, Gunaikurnai/Wirangu/Kokatha. 

2024 broadcast dates
Mon 8 July 11am-2pm – Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (Deer Park)
Tue 9 July 11am-2pm – Barwon Prison (Lara, near Geelong)
Wed 10 July 11-1pm – Fulham Correctional Centre (near Sale, Gippsland)
Wed 10 July 1-3pm – Loddon Prison (Castlemaine)
Thu 11 July 11-3pm – Marngoneet Correctional Centre (Lara, near Geelong)
Fri 12 July 11am-1pm – Port Phillip Prison (Laverton)

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Monday 6:00pm to 6:30pm
June
By the unemployed for the unemployed. Australian Unemployed Workers Union members will cover the latest inequities of the "welfare" system and how we are organising to fight back!
Sound on for Solidarity - Aretha Brown

The month of June marks RADIOTHON at the station and this year’s theme is ‘Sound on for Solidarity’. 'Solidarity' has been at the heart of 3CR's work for nearly five decades across a range of issues and themes. Start saving your pennies people and we look forward to your financial solidarity during June. Any amount makes a big difference, and all donations over $2 are tax deductible. It's not too late. Donate online now. Artwork by Aretha Brown.  

May Day broadcast

On Wednesday May 1, we bring you discussions on workers' rights, industrial actions, the labour movement, and fair working conditions for everyone. Hear about indigenous rights, social justice, international solidarity, work safety, community building, un/under-employment, campaign updates, workers' songs, and more. It’s going to be a huge day! Kicking off at 12.30am right through to 7.30pm. Details here.

Podcast Training in Studio 3

3CR regularly runs podcast training for external organisations, and in 2024 we’ll be running two courses that are open to the wider community. The first 2-day course will be in April, in person, at the studios at 21 Smith Street, Fitzroy. Pricing, dates and more information here. So tell your friends and colleagues and grab a spot today!

International Women's Day on 3CR 2024

Tune in online, on the AM band, on Digital or via the Community Radio Plus app this International Women's Day. Friday 8 March we'll celebrate with 24 hours of content produced by, for and about women and gender non-confirming folk. Music, current affairs, rally coverage and so much more - full details here

Subscriber Drive 2024

This month, we really need your support during our Subscriber Drive. Your subscription is a simple and easy way to show your solidarity for real community-controlled media – grassroots and independent. Whether it’s gardening, eclectic music, community languages, First Nations voices or cutting-edge current affairs – we've got a show for you. Community support enables us to broadcast critical conversations from diverse perspectives as well as showcase local culture, arts and music. Subscribe today and be part of community-owned and community-controlled media that doesn’t shy away from truth-telling. Your subscription matters.

Invasion Day 2024

Tune in from 8.30am to 4pm on Friday 26 January for our annual Invasion Day broadcast. We'll be LIVE from the Invasion Day rally between 10am and midday starting at the steps of Victorian Parliament in Naarm / Melbourne. Throughout the day we will bring you voices of the elders, truth-telling, critical yarns with grassroots activists, deadly Blak music and honouring warriors past and present in the struggle for sovereignty, land back, an end to the genocide, and a treaty. More details and audio here

Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner commemoration

Come along this Saturday 20 January from midday for the Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner Commemoration 2024 at the Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner monument - corner of Victoria St and Franklin St, Melbourne. The first hour of the Commemoration will be broadcast live and the microphone will be opened to the people attending the commemoration to air their views after the guest speakers have spoken. After the commemoration, walk in silence from the execution site to their last resting place at the eastern end of the northern wall that divides Melbourne's Queen Victoria Markets, to acknowledge their just struggle (please bring flowers).