YOUR membership helps us stay true to our community values. It enables us to produce over 100 local shows each week, train and support new volunteers and broadcasters, and maintain our transmission technology. It also helps us cover issues important to YOU – like public housing, First Nations justice, community languages, advocacy for Palestine, celebrating queer and trans communities, and bringing you the best of local, independent music. This February we’re aiming for ONE THOUSAND subscribers. It’s just $40 concession, or $80 full. THANKS for your support.

Monday 26 January is Invasion Day and 3CR will be broadcasting live Invasion Day programming from 10am. We'll be bringing listeners a live broadcast of the speeches from the Naarm rally, conversations with people at the march, and connecting with Aboriginal activists from across the continent who are at the forefront of campaigns for land back, restoration, restitution, and real treaties. We’ll also be playing music from incredible Aboriginal artists past and present. Full details online here. 

Tune in for a live broadcast from the Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner Commemoration. Since 2006, at midday on 20 January, the Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner Commemoration Committee (TMCC) has held a public ceremony to honour the tens of thousands of First Nations men, women, and children who were slaughtered during the colonisation process—a process whose impacts continue to profoundly affect First Nations people today. Get along to the event (corner Victoria St & Franklin St, Melbourne — the site of their execution 183 years ago), or listen in for the live broadcast from 12-1pm. 

More details and the audio will be available after the event here.                                      

Do you have experience in fundraising and event coordination and a passion for community radio? We're looking for a person with at least 2 years experience in fundraising and event management. They will have experience in data management, marketing and communications, writing for online audiences and social media. They will be an excellent communicator, adept at managing multiple deadlines and tasks, whilst maintaining a focus on our strategic goals. Ideally, they will have existing knowledge of 3CR and demonstrable experience in fundraising for progressive community organisations. More details here. 

While many of our regular shows take a well-deserved break, we're still here to keep you connected with fantastic, radical radio all summer long. Join us for a line-up of unique one-off specials and highlights from 2025 that you won't want to miss. Curious about what we have in store? Dive into our summer grid here.

On Thursday 25 December from 10am-2pm,Tamil Voice and En Raasavin Manasile program teams will be taking to the 3CR airwaves to raise money for e-Kalvi. e-Kalvi charity fund focuses on providing a combination of effective and efficient education tools such as face-to-face and online learning as well as offline self-learning to the underprivileged children in Sri Lanka.

We wish all our listeners and supporters a safe and peaceful festive season. The station office will be closed over the new year, but we'll be loud and proud across the airwaves. Check out our summer specials line up of new content, and enjoy highlights and reflections from the year that was. See you all in 2026 (our 50th birthday!) for another year of radical radio. 

Get ready for Disability Day and our 12-hour broadcast on Wednesday 3 December - ‘RIGHT RELATIONS & INNOVATIONS.’ This year’s theme is about disabled people’s visions of a safe future for everyone, and the relationships and innovations that can get us there. From disabled peoples’ relationship with unceded Indigenous land and Sovereignty, community relationships, arts and culture, access and inclusion, intimate relationships and ending violence, marriage equality for disabled people, forming families, assistance animals, transformative justice, disabled people’s relationships with technology, carer relationships, and so much more. 7am-7pm Wednesday 3 December. Full details here.