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To coincide with National Volunteer Week (NVW) 2022, Australia’s largest annual celebration of volunteering, the CBAA is proud to welcome Volunteering Australia to our webinars. 

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CBAA’s Political Reporter Amanda Copp will be filing stories not only from National Radio News' Press Gallery studios in Parliament House, but she will be on the road with the major parties where she'll be busy working on the lead-up to the Federal Election

Jerome joined the CBAA as the head of finance in late 2021 and has quickly become an integral part of the CBAA team. Jeromes role as head of finance involves him in all apsects of the organisation from payroll to annual budgets and everything in-between. Jeromes brings with him extensive experience and a welcoming nature, we look forward to his development of the finance team at CBAA. 

CBAA announced today that Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ will be contributing content to the sector's flagship current affairs program, The Wire, available via the Community Radio Network. Having established a newsroom 45 years ago when 4ZZZ was founded, the station has always had a focus on local news.

The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia is pleased to welcome you to the April 2022 content of our national suicide prevention and mental health awareness project, developed with the support of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

The Torres Strait Islanders Media Association (TISMA) saw an opportunity to share resources between its community radio station, 4MW, and the newspaper when they were approached by the Bousen family. After the paper closed in 2021, the family gifted the newspaper to TSIMA and Torres News returned to the community.

One of the CBAA’s key priorities is to remain engaged with, and responsive to, the needs of our members, and advocate for change in the interests of members and our sector in general. We're pleased to announce the release of our Member and Stakeholder Engagement Framework.

With the 2022 Federal Budget just around the corner, National Radio News (NRN), is gearing up to provide community radio stations with full coverage. NRN journalist, Laura Devoy, will be joining Amanda Copp, NRN’s Political Reporter in Canberra on 29 March 2022 to help with this mammoth task. NRN’s News Director, Frank Bonaccorso, will be on hand to divvy budget related story assignments out to other journalists. The day will be long and busy. We thought you might like to know how it works.