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Sue Mathews: community broadcasting trailblazer
Sue Mathews was 25 and working at the ABC as a producer when she heard a newly established community radio station was looking for its first Station Manager. It was the late 1970s – inner city ...
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Christina Spurgeon: community broadcasting trailblazer
Dr Christina Spurgeon discovered community radio as an aspiring young journalist in mid-1970’s at Canberra’s 2XX. Set amidst the hotbed of politics that enveloped the national capital in the ...
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Nicola Joseph: community broadcasting trailblazer
Newly appointed CBF Board member Nicola Joseph has played a pivotal role in shaping the development of community broadcasting in Australia for over 40 years. A champion of diversity, inclusion and ...
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Wolfgang Kreuzer: community broadcasting trailblazer
Bilingual broadcaster Wolfgang Kreuzer is the co-founder and a long-serving presenter of the German Language Program on Brisbane’s pioneering multilingual station, 4EB. Starting out at 4MBS, ...
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Faten El Dana: community broadcasting trailblazer
Faten El Dana, OAM, is a long-serving broadcaster and Program Manager at Muslim Community Radio, 2MFM, in Sydney’s western suburbs. A woman of many firsts and the recipient of many community ...
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Wayne Bynder: community broadcasting trailblazer
In 1979 a young Wayne Bynder found his way to the 6NR university campus studios and his path in community radio was set. As Wayne winds up his tenure as Station Manager at Wangki Radio in ...
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In conversation with… Ian Stanistreet
Ian Stanistreet was the perennial 1970s inner-city student living on muesli and beer with aspirations to becoming a lawyer when he discovered community radio and PBS FM. He never looked ...