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264 community media projects

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Community Broadcasting Foundation news & updates

View all December 22, 2025

Welcoming Lorena Allam to the Board at Community Broadcasting Foundation

We are thrilled to welcome Lorena Allam to Community Broadcasting Foundation as our new Independent Board director.Lorena Allam is a multiple Walkley Award-winning journalist, a Gamilaraay and Yuwaalaraay woman, and an Industry Professor of Indigenous media at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney. Read more December 19, 2025

Funds available for training

November 26, 2025

Round 2 grant recipients announced

November 26, 2025

Introducing Shelley Madden, our newest Sector Investment Advisory Committee member

November 3, 2025

CTV+ now available on Smart TVs

Grants in action

View all November 12, 2025

Victorian Aboriginal News drives new era in community broadcasting

Victorian Aboriginal News drives new era in community broadcasting     On 30 October 2025, the State of Victoria made history as Australia’s first jurisdiction to negotiate a Treaty with First Peoples, after the passage of the Statewide Treaty Bill... Read more November 5, 2025

Douglas FM: Strengthening Operations and Community Impact

October 6, 2025

Shaping the path to more inclusive broadcasting: 4ZZZ’s ‘Only Human’ celebrates 500th episode

October 1, 2025

Heritage FM goes solar to keep communities connected

September 24, 2025

RusTalk’s young leaders uniting communities

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