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Perth community radio station RTRFM 92.1 has asked Shadow Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese and Federal Member for Perth Patrick Gorman to support the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia’s 2019 election policy agenda to Keep Community Radio.

The Federal Government’s budget, announced on Tuesday, 2 April 2019, includes $19.7 million funding for the community broadcasting sector in the coming financial year.

The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) is one of 23 winners (and one of five in Australia) in the Google News Initiative (GNI) Asia Pacific Innovation Challenge.

AFTRS Industry Certificate: Radio Content, Management and Leadership - starts 29 April, 24 weeks, online and one weekend at AFTRS in Sydney.

Two important submissions have been made this week to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) national inquiry into sexual harassment.

The Greens join NSW Labor in announcing policy support for the NSW music industry, including State funding for the community radio sector.

Kandos Rylstone Community Radio 2KRR 98.7 FM opened its doors to the community in February in celebration of 25 years since the station began in January 1994. 

A key strategy of the CBAA is to assist stations to build their capacity. This means, helping your station to build its skills, resources, knowledge, personnel, infrastructure, content and income to continue trhiving and growing to meet the current and changing needs of your community.  

Since 1978, Mark ‘The Colonel’ Doherty has presented Nothin’ But The Blues, week-in, week-out on 4ZZZ in Brisbane and for the last two decades nationally on the Community Radio Network.