Grant Round 2 opens today!

Our second 2022/23 Content, Development & Operations and Specialist Radio Programming grants round is now open. Before you apply find out more about our grants, then ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Accolades for CBF-funded community media projects

Each year, the talent and diversity of community broadcasters around Australia is recognised in the CBAA's Community Radio Awards. We congratulate everyone who was honoured ...

Celebrating our volunteers this week!

During National Volunteers Week we’re celebrating the generous contributions of the many volunteers who give so much to bring community media to life. More than 22,000 ...

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 ...

Meet our Grant Assessors

Volunteers are the heart of the CBF, including our Grant Assessors. Our team of Grant Assessors read and review incoming applications before applications progress to our Grants ...