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Produced at the University of Newcastle's 2NURFM for the Community Radio Network, Wellbeing is a growing conversation, strengthened by expert knowledge from many Australian and global authorities on all areas of health and medicine.

Today, on behalf of the community broadcasting sector, the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia joins other media organisations at Parliament House to make a public stand against violence towards women and their children.

Inside this issue: music compilations in community radio, meet the program maker, how to run effective board meetings, community media and digital storytelling + more.

Australian actor, director, writer, voice artist and media personality Lex Marinos gave a packed room of CBAA Conference delegates an hour-of-power radio presentation masterclass.

Taking an uncompromising LGBTI perspective to the intimate interview format, every week Dean Beck sits down with leading performers, sportspeople, religious/political authorities, academics and more to explore their incredible personal stories.

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.