Human Rights

Australia holds one of the most concentrated corporatised media landscapes in the world, and in the past year we have seen the fruits born of a system that prioritises shareholder return over the needs of the community.

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On the first Wednesday of each month Small Talk hits the airwaves to educate, promote, explore and give you a better understanding of the lives of people with dwarfism. Small Talk is produced and presented by the Short Statured People of Australia (radio team pictured). Now you can listen in anytime via podcast.
3CR's Roominations team (Tony, Daz, Dale and Tojo pictured) will again be hosting a live outside broadcast from the Where The Heart Is Festival. Held each year in Edinburgh Gardens, the festival is for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and features music, performance, lifestyle and pampering activities, art, games and community information.

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Join 3CR’s Talkback with Attitude team Dr Joe Toscano, Pat Khor and technical supremo Michael Smith for a live broadcast from Human Rights Square. Open Microphone – Let the world hear your thoughts.

Where: Human Rights Square (Formerly Melbourne City Square) Cnr Collins and Swanston St Melbourne

IWD 2012

In 2012 3CR is celebrating International Women's Day with 24 hours of women's only radio as well as a street party and live outside broadcast. Tune in on Thursday 8 March for diverse and radical women's voices on the airwaves - current affairs, science, music, poetry, books, human rights, music, laughter and much more will be part of the feast of women's talents and voices on 3CR 855AM, 3CR Digital and 3cr.org.au

 

Over the past 12 months 3CR has created extraordinary radio from the grassroots: live coverage from Occupy Melbourne and the Tent Embassy, Visioning Justice,
Tune in to 3CR from 12 -6pm on Thursday January 26th for special broadcasting to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. Established on the lawns of Old Parliament House in January 1972, the embassy has been a focal point for the struggle for Aboriginal rights. Few Australian political protests can claim to have made an impact as great or as lasting as the Tent Embassy.

On 20 January 1842 Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner - two Indigenous freedom fighters - were executed on the corner of Bowen and Franklin Streets in Melbourne. A quarter of Victoria's white population came in carnival mood to see the killings. Join us on Friday 20 January from 12 noon to 1pm for a live broadcast to commemorate the execution of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner and to call for the creation of a significant monument on the site they were executed.

Congratulations to Sally Goldner (pictured) and Peter Goad, 3CR programmers who have been recognised for their fabulousness. Sally Goldner was listed lucky number 7 on the Age Melbourne Magazine's Top 100 Influential and Creative People. Sally produces and presents Out of the Pan on Sundays from 12-1pm and was acknowledged for her advocacy and campaigning on transgender rights.