3CR is currently hosting 10 community broadcasters from Timor-Leste (East Timor). The group are here as part of a program run by the Asia Pacific Journalism Centre and funded through AusAID’s Australian Leadership Awards Fellowships Program.

The group have spent time at 3CR to experience community engagement first-hand, and to produce radio features on the Timor-Leste Diaspora in Melbourne for broadcast on their stations back home.

(Florindo and Joao pictured)

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.

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.

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

In 2012 3CR is celebrating International Women's Day with 24 hours of women's only radio as well as a street party and live outside broadcast. Tune in on Thursday 8 March for diverse and radical women's voices on the airwaves - current affairs, science, music, poetry, books, human rights, music, laughter and much more will be part of the feast of women's talents and voices on 3CR 855AM, 3CR Digital and 3cr.org.au