Current affairs

Beyond the Bars Prison Broadcasts live in 2012

21st June 2012

Beyond the Bars is Australia’s only live prison broadcast and this year is expanded to involve over 100 Indigenous men and women from the inside sharing stories, songs, opinions and poems from within the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Barwon Prison, Fulham Correctional Centre, Marngoneet Correctional Centre, Loddon Prison and Port Phillip Prison.

Invest in Independence

11th May 2012

Australia holds one of the most concentrated corporatised media landscapes in the world, and in the past year we have seen the fruits born of a system that prioritises shareholder return over the needs of the community.

Record your own radio promo for 3CR Radiothon

4th May 2012

Share your love for 3CR. Our annual Radiothon appeal is just a month away and this year's theme is Invest in Independence. Call our message bank and record your own 3CR promo for us to play on air during radiothon. Call 9513 2042 ... you have 1 minute ... your time starts now ...

Tune in to May Day on Tuesday 1 May 2012

27th April 2012

3CR is celebrating May Day 2012 with a special broadcast on Tuesday 1 May from 7am - 12 noon. Each year on 1 May people from around the world join in celebrations to mark the achievements of workers while recognising the fight for equity in the workplace is far from over. There'll be news and views from local and international workers as well as all the details on events happening on the day and analysis of recent achievements through union activism. Normal 0

Small Talk Podcasts Online Now

18th April 2012

On the first Wednesday of each month Small Talk hits the airwaves to educate, promote, explore and give you a better understanding of the lives of people with dwarfism. Small Talk is produced and presented by the Short Statured People of Australia (radio team pictured). Now you can listen in anytime via podcast.

Talkback With Attitude - Live Broadcast

15th March 2012

Join 3CR’s Talkback with Attitude team Dr Joe Toscano, Pat Khor and technical supremo Michael Smith for a live broadcast from Human Rights Square. Open Microphone – Let the world hear your thoughts.

Where: Human Rights Square (Formerly Melbourne City Square) Cnr Collins and Swanston St Melbourne

Show us your LOVE today!

20th February 2012

Over the past 12 months 3CR has created extraordinary radio from the grassroots: live coverage from Occupy Melbourne and the Tent Embassy, Visioning Justice,

Sustainable Living Festival Broadcast

16th February 2012

Join 3CR for an activating forum and radio broadcast live from the Sustainable Living Festival. See and hear experienced environmental journalists covering nuclear, climate change, and environmental issues, public transport and earth sharing principles, as well as a lively Q&A session with special guests.

Survival Day Broadcast - 40th Anniversary of Aboriginal Tent Embassy

20th January 2012

Tune in to 3CR from 12 -6pm on Thursday January 26th for special broadcasting to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. Established on the lawns of Old Parliament House in January 1972, the embassy has been a focal point for the struggle for Aboriginal rights. Few Australian political protests can claim to have made an impact as great or as lasting as the Tent Embassy.

Freedom Fighters Commemorated

15th January 2012

On 20 January 1842 Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner - two Indigenous freedom fighters - were executed on the corner of Bowen and Franklin Streets in Melbourne. A quarter of Victoria's white population came in carnival mood to see the killings. Join us on Friday 20 January from 12 noon to 1pm for a live broadcast to commemorate the execution of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner and to call for the creation of a significant monument on the site they were executed.