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Lachlan Wyllie, 14th October 2016

In this feature, A Way To Tie The Knot, Vanita Sathasivam explores how, in an increasingly fast-paced world, people are finding it harder than ever to maintain long and meaningful relationships. Is there a magic formula to finding love?

Thanh Hằng Phạm, Recording on Location

Lachlan Wyllie, 14th October 2016

Mapping out the nuances of home and love that we experience through separation, Thanh Hằng Phạm tells a story of long distance relationships in this feature: one that asks what queer people of colour experience in this diaspora.

National Features and Documentary Series 2016

mwalters, 19th April 2016

The producers selected to create work have been announced and the CBAA's third annual National Features and Documentary Series is shaping up as a must-listen in late 2016.

National Features & Documentary Series

Helen Henry, 7th October 2015

10 half-hour features from community radio producers around Australia, available to all stations for local broadcast.

Radio Pioneer Charles Maclurcan

eramsay, 24th September 2015

Revealing the passion of radio innovator Charles Maclurcan, who "wound up the cat and put the clock out".

It's the Satanic Verses, Love (3RPH, Vision Australia Melbourne) Womens Book Club

eramsay, 24th September 2015

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”.

Fairlight: How Australia Changed the Sound of Music, Image of a Fairlight CMI synthesiser & sampler

eramsay, 23rd September 2015

How two computer nerds in a Sydney basement created a machine that would change the face of contemporary music composition.

Image of live stand up comedian

eramsay, 23rd September 2015

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.

Relation / Expectation documentray artwork

eramsay, 23rd September 2015

Fragments of conversations seeped in emotion, stories, ponderings and thought bubbles.

Image by Lisa Burns for Cathedral of a Thousand Stars Doco

eramsay, 23rd September 2015

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.

Cracked Open, Image of campaigner Pam Clarke

eramsay, 18th September 2015

What's going on in the industry right now. Laws aren't really protecting hens or consumers and why this matters.

I, the Many; We, the One

eramsay, 18th September 2015

Welcome to the world of Multiple Personalities, or ‘multiples’ for short.

Kabul to Kafka: Inside Australia's Community Detention program

eramsay, 18th September 2015

Taking an inside look at what life is like for children and young adults who arrive in Australia alone

Building Bridges Album Art, Australia Has A Black History

eramsay, 18th September 2015

Soaked in inspirational tunes this feature asks, as the Building Bridges Association did nearly three decades ago, what kind of Australia do we want to call home?

National Features and Documentary Series logo

Helen Henry, 18th August 2015

Congrats to 4ZZZ's Saskia Edwards on being a finalist in the QLD MEAA Clarion Awards for her documentary created for last year's National Features & Documentary Series

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Helen Henry, 28th April 2015

These new and emerging community radio producers have been selected to participate in this year's National Features and Documentary Series.

CBAA Web Articles., 14th November 2014

Print, TV, radio and online journalists will be celebrated by the Australian Human Rights Commission at the 2014 Human Rights Awards in Sydney on 10 December, with the shortlist announced on Thursday 13 November.

Tales from the Well - stories about water, place and memory

CBAA Web Articles., 18th September 2014

Adelaide tap water tastes disgusting.
It’s renowned for being the worst in Australia and people go to great lengths to get good drinking water from anywhere but the tap. I used to get rain water from my Nan's house in the Adelaide hills but she’s moved and I really miss the taste of her old galv tank. It’s a unique flavor that’s quite different from plastic tanks or bottled spring water. I had to find a new source of good drinking water.

Special K - Hope in a Horse Tranquiliser

CBAA Web Articles., 18th September 2014

When I would ask people about ketamine, for those who knew about it, a few ideas were evoked: an animal sedative, a hallucinogenic party drug or an anaesthetic for children. But when I mentioned ketamine to people rarely did anyone think of it as a treatment for depression. However, right now in clinics across Australia ketamine is being developed as a way of tackling mental illness.

No Tunnel No Way 1

CBAA Web Articles., 18th September 2014

Keith and hundreds of other Melbournians join together in a campaign of resistance against the East West Link Project. This project plans to cut a swathe through Collingwood, Clifton Hill, Fitzroy on into park lands of Royal Park.

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