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)

Join us for the 2012 3CR Station Worker and Subscriber General Meeting – 6.30pm Wednesday 5 September, upstairs at the station - 21 Smith Street, Fitzroy (ring side door for access).

Come along to Second Breakfast, a 3CR Radio fundraiser gig on Sunday the 15th of July. Head on down to The Bendigo Hotel in Johnston St, Collingwood to see a bevy of local up and coming bands supporting 3CR's 2012 Radiothon.

$10 Entry. All proceeds go to 3CR's Breakfast shows to keep great independent current affairs alive.

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.

Join the Gardening Show this Sunday 24 June for their annual Radiothon Show. There's $13,000 worth of gardening goodies for you to get including over 100 books, ergonomic gardening tools, mulch and compost, gift vouchers, seeds, magazine subscriptions and much more!

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.