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The last in-person CBAA Conference was held in 2019 in Melbourne. For Angie Vaughan, the new fresh faced station manager of Coffs Harbour Youth and Community Radio 104.1 CHY FM, the conference came at just the right time. Networking with the community radio family helped her benefit from the experiences of others and enabled her to rise to the challenges she faced rebuilding the station.

In May the CBAA made a submission to the NSW Government inquiry into the response to major flooding across New South Wales in 2022. The report released by the committee last week strongly recognises the critical role played by community broadcasters during the floods and made recommendations to the NSW Government on supporting and funding community broadcasters.

The CBAA's submission highlighted the critical role played by community broadcasters in delivering local information and connecting their communities through crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and recommended that the community broadcasting sector should be better utilised in government health and other advertising campaigns, including its COVID-19 campaign, to amplify messaging to otherwise under-served communities and provide targeted financial support to local community stations.

​​Do you love community radio? Are you wanting to help local business promote their goods and services? Then Radio Eastern has a role for you! Radio Eastern are looking for motivated people to join their team of sponsorship representatives. 

CBAA's dedicated e-learning platform for community broadcasters across Australia, CBAA Learning, will now include ouor latest webinar recordings.

That means if you've missed a webinar or would like to revisit a webinar you attended, you can easily do this by going to CBAA Learning. The platform carries a wide array of topics of interest to all community broadcasters, making it possible for you to learn from experts from the comfort of your own workstation. The latest topics include: Basics of Community Journalism, Fundraising as a Positive Message, Email Marketing, and Developing Volunteer Talent or Webcasting-Podcasting Essentials. 

If you have a radio automation system, you can now add your ‘Now Playing’ information to the Community Radio Plus app. This makes it easier for listeners to know what is playing now and what has been played over the last hour so.

All community radio station websites that have been built by CBAA's Web Services can now include content from The Wire, a CRN current affairs program, at no extra cost regardless of whether or not the station has subscribe to The Wire.

First sounds Volume 8 is out now.

After an extensive recruitment process spanning continents and skillsets far and wide, PBS FM has announced the appointment of their new General Manager, Kristen Paterson.