Involved in community broadcasting since the mid 1980's Deb is currently Manager of Radio Adelaide 101.5fm. Growing up in Leongatha, Victoria, she started her involvement in 1985 as a volunteer at Melbourne's 3CR, which she credits for her lifelong passion for community media. Deb became their inaugural co-ordinator of women's involvement and began the national program Women on the Line, which she's pleased to see has continued for 22 years through a diverse range of women broadcasters.

After stints as Executive Officer of the Victorian Public Broadcasting Association and as a freelance producer for community radio, here and overseas, and at the ABC, she spent three years as a Media Lecturer at Swinburne. During that time she was also a Board member of Melbourne's 3RRR. Moving to Adelaide in 1992, she produced the international award winning series Ear to the Ground and a range of other radio features before becoming Radio Adelaide's (then 5UV) Training Co-ordinator in 1995. During this period 5UV became the first community station to gain Registered Training Organisation status and the role increased in size and scope to become a key part of the station's activities and revenue, whilst maintaining a focus on access and equity.

In 1998 Deb took up the role of Radio Manager at the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Media Association's 4K1G. In 1999 she returned to 5UV to become first Program Manager and then Manager, and at the same time was elected by CBAA members to the General Grants Advisory Committee of the Community Broadcasting Foundation, a role she maintained until late 2007. Deb was a Board member of the CBF from 2000 to 2007 and played a significant role in a wide range of sector activities from broadcasting and IT technology to sector development to audience research. She resigned from the CBF when elected CBAA President in November 2007. She thanks her 16 staff, 500 volunteers and family for their support in taking on this role.

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Shane has been involved in the entertainment and communications industry for over 30 years. From the 1970's to the early 90's he worked all over Australia and internationally. In the early 90's he took up a role as a broadcaster on his local community radio station, 3GCR in Gippsland. As a radio producer he has worked on national and international events and been an occasional stringer for the national community news service. He also produces two weekly radio programs, one local and one national. He has served at all levels of community radio. First on the Board of his local station, then the CBAA Board and he is currently Treasurer of the Asia Pacific arm of the International Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC).

Shane is passionately committed to community media and in his spare time teaches radio journalism and production at Monash and Swinburne Universities. He occasionally spends time with his family.

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Craig has been involved in community broadcasting since 2000 after becoming inspired to volunteer at 3RRR. Since then, Craig has served on the Board of youth broadcaster SYN for 3 years, two as President. In this time, SYN has gone from an aspirant licensee to one of the most exciting youth media organisations in Australia. Craig has also done project work with C31 Melbourne, assisting culturally and linguistically diverse communities connect to the station.

Outside of community broadcasting, Craig enjoys sleeping and winning karaoke competitions.

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John MacInnes began in community radio in Colac in the mid ‘90s. Retiring to Warrnambool he commenced a jazz program on 3WAY-FM in spring of ’98. He also presents a classical music hour and a morning interview program each week, and is studio anchor for live football coverage. He was elected vice president of 3WAY in 1999, and president in 2000, a position he held for 5 years, standing down in December 2004. He now holds the position of secretary, and was recently made an honorary life member.
3WAY has no paid staff, so John’s role has included significant managerial elements. He describes 3WAY as a small, cohesive station with a wide diversity of programs, a growing listener base and a positive profile.

In an earlier life John worked all round Australia in the wool industry before becoming a technical teacher and principal. He has had a long involvement in amateur theatre, plays flute, solves cryptic crosswords, reads, enjoys bodysurfing and plays a little golf.

He is committed to efforts to secure additional funding and recognition for the community sector, and at the local level he seeks to encourage community development through services provided by the station.

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Bryce's experience is wide and varied. He has worked in radio, television, print, online communities and social networking, Web 2.0 project development, performing arts, training, governance, community development and youth-work.

Bryce has been involved in the community broadcasting sector for ten years and has been a board member of the CBAA for the past four years. He was a presenter and producer at Ballarat's community radio station 3bbb. He is often recognised for his work in the establishment and management of SYN (The Student Youth Network Inc.) SYN manages a full-time Melbourne-wide youth radio station (90.7 SYN FM), produces youth television content for C31 Melbourne, publishes a regular magazine, maintains a dynamic WEB 2.0 online community and presents all-ages events in the City of Melbourne. Bryce was involved in the organisation for five years, three of those years working as the General Manager.

Bryce has also produced a range of community television programs for C31 including the award-winning Pluck TV; SYN TV the first daily program to go live to Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide and simulcast on Radio and the Internet; and SYN CITY. In April 2007, Bryce stepped down from his position as General Manager of SYN, to take up a new position at the ABC as Online Producer for the ABC radio program Heywire.

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Stuart Buchanan is a volunteer presenter at Sydney youth metro
station FBi 94.5FM, hosting the international music show 'Fat Planet' Stuart was employed by FBi as Communications Manager in early 2003, working on the full-time launch of the station in August of that year, and took over as General Manager in November 2004. Prior to arriving in Australia, Stuart worked for twelve years in the UK performing arts sector, including roles as Head Of Marketing for London's Royal Court Theatre and Marketing Manager for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. From 2000-2002, Stuart ran the New Media Department at McCabes - one of the UK's leading arts marketing agencies and in 2002 established his own web design company, Zero-G. In 2003, the Zero-G site for Goldfrapp won the MTV Europe Web Award, which led to further digital work for artists such as Depeche Mode and Red Hot Chili Peppers. In August 2007, Stuart left the GM role at FBi to return to work in the web & digital sectors.

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Adrian Basso is General Manager of Melbourne's PBS 106.7FM, a station specialising in a diverse assortment of under-represented music - from jazz, gospel and reggae, to punk, asian pop and death metal.

Adrian grew up in Canberra and has heard all the Canberra jokes. He completed a BA of Accounting before studying music performance at ANU. He pursued a career in the arts but his two qualifications truly became intertwined when, in 1998, he joined 3MBS, a classical music station, as its business and development manager. There he caught the radio bug. At the station he managed the station's finances as it steadily grew to be one of the most financially secure in Australia, he ran events cum mini-music festivals, helped the sector navigate the new GST and presented a world-music program. To lure him away, more than six years later, it took a role as Victorian State Manager at AbaF (the Australian Business Arts Foundation). At AbaF, Adrian had the opportunity to work with CEOs and leaders from Top 100 companies on their activities supporting the arts. But radio still had its hooks in Adrian and he agreed to return to 3MBS to project manage the fit out of its state-of-the-art purpose-built digital studios in the magnificent Abbotsford Convent arts precinct. He was looking forward to a break in 2007 when an opportunity presented itself to run PBS - an iconic and much loved institution central to the Melbourne music scene. Forget the break - he was hooked again.

In his spare time Adrian enjoys shopping for food, eating food and planning his next meal. He also loves spending time with his patient partner and with their young son who shares Adrian's passion for everything edible.

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Natalie has been the Station Manager of 2RRR (a sub-metro station in Sydney) since 2003. During that time, she’s been directly involved with most of the operations of a small station, including volunteer recruitment, training, programming, policy development, fundraising and technical. Prior to her work at 2RRR, she was employed in various roles in the areas of design, events management, media, community cultural development, music, theatre and student activities.

As a CBAA Board member, she aims to improve the transparency, communication and accountability to members, as well as ensuring that sub-metros and smaller stations are represented at a sector-wide level. As Women’s Rep, she aims to address some of the factors which have led to low participation of women on the CBAA Board. She also intends to continue to develop the support and communications network started by previous Women’s Rep, Mel Page, whilst providing a strong women’s voice on Board matters.

You can contact her on womensrep@gmail.com to discuss women’s, sub-metro, Sydney-based stations or other sector issues.

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Dan is the Marketing Manager of 3JOY where he has been involved for almost 5 years, working in all areas of station operations, including management and training, events and promotions, sponsorship and business development. He finished his Bachelor of Commerce (Management) in 2007 and is currently taking the Certificate III in Radio Broadcasting course offered at 3JOY. While organising 3JOY an 2SER’s joint outside broadcast at Mardi Gras 2008, Dan discovered he was allergic to glitter.

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