Current affairs

Putting SexC into Transmission

Living with HIV can be a highly stigmatising. Add to that another highly infectious virus in Hep C - a virus that in some ways carries a greater stigma to it than HIV. To coincide with World Hepatitis Day (July 28), documentary producer Peter Davis, was commissioned by Living Positive Victoria and Hepatitis Victoria to create a feature about HIV and Hepatitis C Coinfection. Airing on Thursday night, August 6 at 12:30am-1:30am.

Beyond the Bars 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.

Friday 7:00am to 8:30am
A weekly source of alternative information which aims to inspire action and organisation to put people and the environment first.Covering international political issues and struggles against the exploitation of the people and exposing the bias in mainstream media that preferences the power brokers and denies access to information.
Rally for workers rights

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.

Armenian woman and child in deportations 1915 Armin T Wegner Collection

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.

We Weren't Born Yesterday

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.

Breakfast at Friends of the Earth - live on air

The Sustainable Breakfast Series is on again following on from last year's delicious success with radical radio, a delicious free breakie and live local music. Join the live audience and hear discussions from 3CR breakfast presenters on local sustainability issues, from setting up cheap renewable energy and workers co-operatives to urban agriculture and building resilient communities in the Yarra area from Monday-Friday, March 23-27, 7am-8:30am.

IWD rally

Join 3CR's women in celebration of International Women's Day 2015 on Sunday 8 March. With 24 hours of women's broadcasting from midnight Saturday to midnight Sunday presenting diverse perspectives from women in the horticultural industry, women in trades, trans women, and herstory. Covering issues of homelessness, breaking the species barrier, The Women’s Arts and Politics Symposium, music, current affairs, poets, spoken word artists, performers and much more.

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