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Share your station's story - #CBAAConf

hfriedlander, 14th April 2022

​As we look to plan the CBAA Conference for October, we are seeking your participation to share the stories of how your community radio station have innovated and evolved over the past 12 months.

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Sector Leadership Update: April 2022

Frieda Lee, 13th April 2022

We’ve had a busy start to the year and things are getting busier with the 2022 Federal Election fast approaching. Here is a snapshot of our advocacy efforts and impacts since the last sector leadership update in December 2021.

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Local & Independent News Association appoints Executive Director

Amy Leiper, 12th April 2022

LINA announces it has appointed Claire Stuchbery as its inaugural Executive Director. Claire joins LINA after a 20 year career in media policy, stakeholder engagement, policy development and communications.

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Community Radio Plus is here!

hfriedlander, 11th April 2022

Get everything you need to promote it to your listeners.

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Ken West’s legacy for Community Broadcasting

cbaacomms, 11th April 2022

Big Day Out Founder Ken West passed away. At one time The Big Day Out was recognised as the biggest touring festival in the world.

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Be part of the media scrum for the 2022 Federal Election

Amy Leiper, 8th April 2022

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

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ARC approves three-year study to assess community music radio impact

Amy Leiper, 7th April 2022

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has approved a three-year study by Monash University to map and assess the impact of community music radio. The research project, ‘Community Music Radio: Building the Music-Media Ecosystem’, will begin later this year in collaboration with the CBAA, Community Broadcasting Foundation (CBF) and APRA AMCOS.

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4ZZZ builds newsroom capacity to contribute to national current affairs program The Wire

Amy Leiper, 5th April 2022

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.

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2022-23 Federal Budget maintains sector funding at $20.5m

Frieda Lee, 30th March 2022

The Australian Government has maintained funding for community broadcasting at $20.5m which is our sector's critical baseline to support community radio stations and sector-wide projects.

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TSIMA’S 4MW returns local newspaper back to Thursday Island and Outer Islands in Queensland

Amy Leiper, 28th March 2022

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.

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Our Member and Stakeholder Engagement Framework

hfriedlander, 24th March 2022

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.

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Regional newspaper inquiry recognises value of community radio

Frieda Lee, 23rd March 2022

A great outcome for community radio in The Future of Regional Newspapers in a Digital World: Inquiry into Australia's regional newspapers report published by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts this week. 

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Community Radio News Budget Coverage

Amy Leiper, 23rd March 2022

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.

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Enhancing and supporting news and journalism in community radio

jbisset, 23rd March 2022

Working with our local stations, we’re strengthening and growing community radio local, state and national news. Through our initiatives, we’re committed to supporting news and journalism in the community radio sector.

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Join the #WaitingOnZuck news freeze on 22 March and fight for the future of Australian news media

hfriedlander, 22nd March 2022

Today across Australia, over 30 media outlets will stop publishing news for 24 hours in a collective freeze to fight for the future of Australian news media. The news freeze will let the world know that small and medium news publishers are #WaitingOnZuck to pay for journalism and content that appears on the Facebook platform. 

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Shorter and simpler Australian domain names launch on 24 March 2022.

Amy Leiper, 22nd March 2022

Australian businesses will be able to register new .au direct names in a few days. These domain names are available to the public on a first come, first served basis and can be registered via any participating .au accredited registrar.

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Report on the future of regional Australia

Frieda Lee, 21st March 2022

The Select Committee on Regional Australia has concluded its inquiry into regional Australia and published its report: Pride of Place: Inquiry into the future of Regional Australia.

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Gary Thorpe named as one of Australia’s most influential and inspiring

Amy Leiper, 15th March 2022

Silver Memories' Gary Thorpe OAM named one of Pro Bono's 2022 most inspiring and influential people working for social change

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Updated Political and Election Matter Guidelines

Frieda Lee, 14th March 2022

The ACMA has made some minor changes to their Political and Election Matter Guidelines. 

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CBAA addresses inquiry into Australia's regional newspapers

Amy Leiper, 8th March 2022

CBAA’s CEO, Jon Bisset, and Head of Advocacy and Communications, Holly Friedlander Liddicoat represented both CBAA and the Local & Independent News Association as they appeared in front of the House of Representatives' Standing Committee on Communications and Arts to address its inquiry into Australia’s regional newspapers. They were joined by Ian Cole, Station Manager for Outback Radio and Editor/Publisher of The Western Herald.

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