3CR's annual 24 hour special broadcast for International Women's Day.  This year, as 3CR celebrates 50 years on air, we will be featuring audio from our archives and interviews with women who have contributed to 3CR past and present.

11 pm Saturday 7 March:  Hillbilly Fever
All Australian Female Country Music show.  Presented by Lorraine.
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2 am: Local and Live.  Presented by Leith. 
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3 am: Women in Song: A journey through time and place.
Presented by Maisie Strong (Planet X).
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5 am: Women's Current Affairs 
Tuesday Breakfast Cathy and Emma, members of Free Kanaky Solidarity Naarm, speak to Phuong about their campaign to raise $8000 by April. These funds will go towards paying for a Kanak delegate to come to so-called 'Australia' to educate us on their ongoing struggle against French colonisation, as well as to connect with decolonial First Nations elders and leaders across the continent.  LISTEN

Tuesday Hometime Dr Helen Rosenbaum talking about her family background and her journey to membership of Jewish Council of Australia.  LISTEN

Thursday Breakfast: Ending Strip Searches in Australian Prisons Georgia Sheals and Nina Storey from the Formerly Incarcerated Girls Justice Advocates Melborne (FIGJAM) Collective spoke about the dehumanising practice of strip searching in the Australian corrections system, and why this practice needs to end.  LISTEN

6 am: Lost In Science: International Women's Day 2026
For our International Women's Day Special, Linden and Claire talk statistics around how to Balance the Scales for women in STEM in Australia. We also hear from women in STEM from across Australia about what International Women's Day means to them.  Presented by Claire Farrugia and Linden Ashcroft.
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6.30 am: Accent of Women: Rejecting a year of Prabowo-Gibran Regime. 
In this episode, we listen to speeches by Indonesian workers and students, as well as Indonesian resistance songs from a protest held on 20th October 2025, commemorating a year of the Prabowo-Gibran government.  Presented by Fiza Zali.
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7 am: Women on the Line
A gender analysis of contemporary issues, as well as in-depth analysis by a range of women and gender diverse people around Australia and internationally. 
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7.30 am: The Gardening Show
Engaging panel discussions and Q &A addressing a wide range of gardening, urban horticulture and environmental issues.  Presented by Emma Herd.
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9.15 am:  Alternative News
News about peace, disarmament and nuclear issues.  Presented by Romina Beitseen.  
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9.30 am: Concrete Gang
Weekly update from the CFMEU Construction & General (Vic/Tas), with a Gang of all-women members, recorded outside Trades Hall at the IWWD Union Rally on Friday. Catch up with the CFMEU Women regularly on their own podcast Tough As Nails.
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10 am:  Stick Together 
A special on the working women and volunteer women at Neighbourhood Houses in Victoria, with their history, and the current struggle to keep their doors open. Presented by Amy Ciara.
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10.30 am: Latin American Update A Cuban Australian woman speaks out 
We hear from Edelmira Palacios Hernandez, a Cuban Australian journalist, who discusses IWD in Cuba and some important rights gained for the women of Cuba. And play two songs by much loved Cuban musician Sara Gonzalez.  Presented by Maree Dellora.  
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11 am:  Earth Matters Lutruwita Forest Resistance Tour
Guest presented by Hannah York (Monday Breakfast) & Rosie Ganino (Climate Action Show)
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11.30 am:  Raising our Voices  Strong Women Coming Together
Amanda, Janice, Maria, Janet, Maddy and Kat share their experiences of being strong Self Advocates (with a combined 150 years of disability activism between them) Discussing how far disability rights have come, what still needs to change, and how to support each other and the next generation to continue to make change happen. 
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12 pm:  Out of the Pan A panful of women’s history: 21 years of Out of the Pan on IWD2026
Presented by Sally Goldner.
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1 pm: Freedom of Species  
Why animal advocacy is a feminist issue.  Presented by Betty.
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2 pm: Ubuntu Voices  
Presented by Ajak Kwai.
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3 pm: Queering the Air
Discussion of the modern history of female gender diversity and gender queerness.  Presented by Madison Moffat.
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4 pm:  Lyrik McGuiness talking about her life and experiences as a woman and how she navigated through it.
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5 pm: Shiralee Hood (Breaking Through) - IWD Staying Alive
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6 pm: The 3CR IWD Collective presents 2 hours celebrating 50 years of radical women's voices on the airwaves.
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8 pm: Latin American indigenous women’s struggles
Fighting this century assimilation process and land expropriation. revitalising cultural and traditional knowledge. Interviews, storytelling, traditional medicine, short audios in indigenous languages.  Presented by Marisol Salinas (Mujeres Latinoamericanas).
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9 pm: From the Archive 
Presented by Mercedes Zanker (A Friday Rave) 
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10 pm: She Sings
Presented by Therese Virtue (Music Sans Frontieres)
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