Earth Matters Postcard

Earth Matters is celebrating 1000th episode

11th September 2015

That's over 1000 stories and 500 hours of radio from the frontlines of environmental struggles in Australia and around the world. From Jabiluka to Goolengook, West Papua to Palestine, and everywhere in-between. So what can you expect from our 1000th show?

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Beyond the Bars 2015

Beyond the Bars 2015

25th June 2015

Tune in to Beyond the Bars in 2015 to hear Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners on the airwaves. The project features radio shows broadcast live from six Victorian prisons during NAIDOC Week 6-10 July 2015. ‘The main purpose of these broadcasts,’ explains Koori Survival Show broadcaster Gilla McGuinness, ‘is to connect our people in the prison system back to family and culture on the outside during NAIDOC Week.’ Download the poster. Download the Media Release.

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Get some Gardening goodness this Sunday

19th June 2015

Join the Gardening Show this Sunday for their annual Radiothon Show. There are hundreds of gardening goodies for you to get including books, gardening tools, soil, compost, gift vouchers, seeds, vouchers, magazine subscriptions and much more! Tune in this Sunday, 21 June, from 7.30 - 10am and support great gardening radio on 3CR.

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Radiothon 2015

5th June 2015

3CR’s annual Radiothon is coming from 1–14 June - it's time for you to Activate The Airwaves!

In a political landscape where media barons and mining magnates have been known to make or break governments, it’s crucial that we get information that’s unfiltered by corporate interests. For almost 40 years, 3CR Community Radio has staked out a vital place on the airwaves, allowing us to bring news, analysis, music and the voices of literally hundreds of community groups to the people of Melbourne 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Radiothon Fundraisers

5th June 2015

3CR Radiothon is in full swing, and we have a whole bunch of Fundraiser's coming out to help you Activate the Airwaves. We know it's winter, but the revolution will not be televised - so rug up, get out and get political!

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AMY - Music Matters Film Fundraiser

27th May 2015


Support Music Matters' Radiothon - Come along to this fantastic new documentary about the life of Amy Winehouse. Buy your tickets online here

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Burning Vinyl Live From The Public Bar

Burning Vinyl Live From The Public Bar

20th May 2015

Burning Vinyl's June Live Broadcasts are even bigger and better in 2015! This year we've moved our Burning Vinyl spectacular to The Public Bar in North Melbourne. This allows us to host full bands for a louder and more rocking good time for all. So cancel your afternoon meetings and have a long lunch at The Public Bar with Burning Vinyl every Friday in June from 2-4pm. Entry is FREE - but donations will be gratefully accepted and a percentage of the bar takings go to the Burning Vinyl Radiothon target. 

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Nepal Earthquake Emergency Appeal

5th May 2015

3CR's Nepalese program, Melbourne Chautari, is supporting the Nepalese Earthquake Relief and Welfare Committee's appeal for help following the recent devasting earthquake in Nepal. You can help by providing financial support, working as a volunteer or by promoting the appeal on social media or check out the facebook page Victorians Stand Together For Nepal. 

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Rally for workers rights

Celebrate May Day this Friday

30th April 2015

Tune in from 7am til 12 noon for news and views from local and international workers, as well as all the details on events happening this May Day.  Live crosses from the rally and march in the afternoon from 4pm til 6.30pm to Stop Western Australia closures, and support the call for decolonization and sovereignty for First Nation people.

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Armenian woman and child in deportations 1915 Armin T Wegner Collection

Anzac, the Armenian Genocide and the Politics of Remembering

23rd April 2015

On air Friday 24 April 9.30am - or listen now. In this centenary year, ANZAC commemorations have reached a fever pitch. How much history is lost in the carnival of commemoration? 24 April 2015 marks another day of mourning.

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We Weren't Born Yesterday

Queer Heritage

2nd April 2015

Are you interested in diverse queer history? We Weren’t Born Yesterday is a series of four hour-long episodes focusing on the voices of GLBTIQ people from Vietnamese, Chinese, Arabic and Hindi speaking backgrounds. Did you miss them? Why not listen now. Produced by the Queering the Air Collective, the series explores queer heritage, vocabulary and intergenerational connections in migrant communities in Australia.

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