Current affairs

Survival Day 2012
Wednesday
January
This annual broadcast by 3CR's Indigenous broadcasters marks Australia's Invasion Day. Indigenous activists have broadcast at 3CR from the year 3CR began in1976. Tune in on 26 January each year and hear the truth about Australia's ongoing colonialism and the current campaigns to right past wrongs.
Thursday 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Global Intifada brings you current affairs through revolutionary & protest music from around the world - because Music Is Our Bomb.
Wednesday 5:00pm to 5:30pm
Challenging the mainstream, negative stereotypes of people with a mental illness, Brainwaves actively engages those living with a mental illness as researchers, interviewers, performers and program designers while promoting community mental health awareness.

3CR is celebrating International Day of People with Disability on Monday 3 December with 12 hours of radio presented by 3CR's diverse community of disability activists and friends. Join us from 6.30am to 6.30pm, and hear about historic and current protests against discrimination, abuse and indefinite incarceration of people with disability.

Congratulations to all our finalists and winners in the 2012 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia annual awards. Our coverage of the Tent Embassy's 40th anniversary was a finalist - well done!

Beyond the Bars
Thursday 2:00pm to 3:30pm
July
Beyond the Bars is a unique series of live prison radio broadcasts that give voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates in Victorian prisons. The broadcasts are presented by 3CR's First Nations broadcasters during NAIDOC* Week (July). Beyond the Bars began in 2002 and each year it features songs, stories, opinions and poems from the men and women inside, while also connecting them with culture and community. *National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee

Beyond the Bars is 3CR's live prison programming - broadcast from inside prisons across Victoria during NAIDOC Week each year, and presented by 3CR's Indigenous broadcasters. Join us for the launch of Beyond the Bars 9, a double CD of highlights from the six prison radio shows.

L-R: Yousef Alreemawi, Robert Martin, and Nasser Mashni
Saturday 9:30am to 10:00am
News and views regarding the Palestinian situation. Bringing listeners the untold side of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
James McKenzie In Ya Face 3CR
Friday 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Explores LGBTIQA+ issues with interviews, music and commentary.
Monday 8:30am to 9:00am
A national feminist current affairs program for community radio. 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. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network (CRN).