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10 half-hour features from community radio producers around Australia, available to all stations for local broadcast.

The CBAA is pleased to welcome you to the October 2015 content of our national suicide prevention and mental health awareness project, developed with the support of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Each month, our project team develops a series of 20 short radio segments designed to promote help-seeking behaviour and positive lifestyle choices, using interviews with service providers, as well as profiles of people who have successfully dealt with tough times in their lives.

The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) is calling for proposals from community radio journalists and producers for international radio series on climate change.

One of the first audio books Ruth Mercer read after joining the RVIB (Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind) library some thirty years ago was Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. The postman delivered all 32 tapes to her front door and announced “It’s the Satanic Verses, love”.

Standing up in front of a room full of strangers and trying to make them laugh sounds like a daunting task to most people. Now imagine being one of the relatively small handful of women trying to do just that, in a field still dominated by men.

The desert seems like an unlikely place for things to grow, but they do… you just have to look a little bit harder to find them.

*Past webinar - click through to view webinar recording*
The CBAA is facilitating a webinar for women in community broadcasting ahead of the mainstay Women's Forum that occurs each year at the CBAA Conference.

The CBAA is pleased to introduce the MC for our upcoming Conference. Mitch Byatt will be at the helm of proceedings from 12 - 15 November in Terrigal NSW.

Welcome to the world of Multiple Personalities, or ‘multiples’ for short.