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Community Newsroom - 30 January 2026
Join us for our first live show of 2026 — we’re thrilled to be back in the Community Newsroom. To open the program, we speak with Australia Day 2026 Honours List recipient Nicole Lockie, a remarkable local woman from the Northern Rivers who has made an extraordinary contribution to our community. …
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Community Newsroom - 23 January 2026
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Community Newsroom - 16 January 2026
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CN 09-01-26 From Sheffield to the Bay, cheerio Radio Mundial
Steve Snelgrove presented his last Radio Mundial program for Bay FM in March 2025, after 24 years. Hear how a boy from Sheffield, UK, who had no sense of sound for his first four years of life, came to become an avid fan of a genre record companies called “world music,” he says, because “they coul…
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CN 02-01-26 Whistleblowers, strip searches, threatened species and poetry in the rain
Two days into the new year, with the silly season pretty well over, seems the perfect time to reflect on some of the people and stories that captured our attention in 2025 as we slow down with summer and take stock of how far, or otherwise, we’ve come. Poetry is often a perfect partner for reflect…
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Community Newsroom - 26 December 2025
Nan’s The Word – Bumpy Shadows – Cooee Take Me to The River – Emma Donovan Wild Horses and Broken Hearts – KYARNA Jensen’s Swap – Justin Standley At least for now (feat.Anthony Liddell, Jake Amy, Kasinda Faase) – Kee’ahn & Pataphysics The Fixer (feat.Quarralia Knox & Kutcha Edwards) – KYARNA …
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CN 19-12-25- Grand plans for Bexhill quarry; Thousands of turtle eggs saved; Elliot’s 8th Labor win; Newsreader tries stand-up
Today’s program is our last official program for the year and we spend some time listening back to some highlights from the year gone. We hear about turtle eggs rescued across the NSW north coast before tidal surges from ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred; how community groups across the region including …
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CN 12-12-25: Northern Rivers ICU nurse returns from Gaza; Community radio kills the streaming star; Enough for a year: how Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital will spend $2 million in fed funds
Cass Lillis is from Crabbes Creek, she’d been struck down with a virus and had no home reception when she spoke to me yesterday from somewhere near Crabbes Creek but she sat in her car on the side of the road to share over the phone what she has seen and heard in a place where most reporters fear t…
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CN 05-12-25: Ballina marches against domestic violence; Something fishy about Tassie salmon; Community raises more than $100K to save bowlo; Will Trump deploy the national guard in next presidential elections?; Christmas fundraiser for Gaza
Community spirit has been strong on the Northern Rivers, with record attendance at the Ballina march for an end to domestic violence and more than $100,000 raised in less than a week to try to have the Bangalow Bowlo in community hands. Ballina marches against domestic violence w Emma Setterfield-S…
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CN 28-11-25: Hopes for another zero-arrests Byron Schoolies; Warning to Schoolies headed OS; Our cadet’s first Byron Shire Council meeting; Slow progress at COP30; Byron’s Christmas hamper call-out for the needy
‘Tis the season for Schoolies, and Byron is one of the famously popular Australian school-leaver destinations. The event has a long and varied history in Byron, from heady, alcohol-fuelled days earlier this century to some distinctly more sober affairs in recent times. Today we hear what police a…
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