NEMBC EB Spring 2014
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Photographs taken by Halina Bluzer and Dipesh Chaulagain at the 3ZZZ 25 Year Celebrations. The National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council (NEMBC) is a national peak body that advocates for ethnic community broadcasting: promoting multiculturalism, addressing racism and contributing to media diversity. Contents NEMBC Executive Committee President: Tangi Steen SA President’s Pen................................................1 Vice President: Nick Dmyterko QLD The Honorable Malcolm Turnbul MP ..........2 Treasurer: Joe De Luca NT Secretary: Cristina Descalzi SA The Honorable Jason Clare MP ....................3 Osai Faiva NSW Luigi Romanelli TAS Senator Scott Ludlum MP .............................4 George Salloum VIC Kenneth Kadirgamar NT Michelle Rowland MP .....................................5 Irene Tavutavu QLD Andrew Wilkie MP .........................................6 NEMBC Staff Voice of Multicultural Australia ....................7 Executive and Policy Officer: Russell Anderson Operations Officer: Juliana Qian Commit to Community Television ..............8 Project Officer: Hsin-Yi Lo Administration Officers: Hien Minh Dinh (Mindy) Victorian Ethnic Broadcasters Forum .........9 Bookkeeper: Rod Borlase NEMBC 2014 National Conference ......10-11 The Ethnic Broadcaster NEMBC 2014 Conference Workshops ....... 12 Chief Editor and Design: Russell Anderson Graphic and lay-out: Emma Borlase NEMBC 2014 Conference Speakers ........... 13 Editorial Team: Hien Minh Dinh (Mindy), Juliana Qian, Tara Egan and Hsin-Yi Lo Multilingual Broadcasting in NT ................. 14 Journal Printers: Highlight Printing Youth Conference at a Glance .................... 15 NEMBC Contact Details Youth Conference Speakers ........................ 16 PO Box 1144 Collingwood VIC 3066 Best Practice - Voice FM 99.9 ...................... 18 Phone: 03 9486 9549 Fax: 03 9486 9547 Best Practice - VOX FM Illawarra ..............20 Email: [email protected] Website: www.nembc.org.au Swinburn University Visit ............................ 21 Making History: Women in Radio Forum .22 The Ethnic Broadcaster is the Journal of the National Ethnic & Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council (NEMBC). Shepparton Women’s Training .................23 The views expressed in The Ethnic Broadcaster are not necessarily the views of the NEMBC. Spotlight on CALD Youth Unemployment ... 24 Around the Stations ................................. 25 -28 We welcome contributions to The Ethnic Broadcaster, especially from NEMBC Members. CBF Grants News ................................................ 29 Front Cover Photo: Taken by Halina Bluzer at We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin the 3ZZZ 25 Year Celebrations of Hmong Dancer nations as the traditional owners of the land on which Michelle Lee. The Ethnic Broadcaster is edited and printed, and pay our respects to their Elders both past and present. iii - The Ethnic Broadcaster - Spring 2014 Presidents Pen Mal e lelei (Greetings to you in Tongan) Welcome to the Spring edition of The Ethnic The NEMBC Annual Conference will Broadcaster. It has an excellent collection of be in Darwin this year and I extend a articles on a range of issues and news from warm invitation for all to attend. The ‘Around the Stations’. conference will start with the Youth Media Conference on the 31 October The NEMBC Executive had their August board meeting followed by the NEMBC Conference in Canberra to coincide with the Voice of Multicultural on the 1-2 November. Thank you to Australia event, which was held on Friday 22nd August our sponsors Spots and Spaces and the at the National Press Club, for representatives of ethnic Community Broadcasting Foundation. media, communications and specialist consultants. This event was organised by Spots & Space with support from MBCNT is the host of this year’s conference and we the NEMBC. Following the board meeting, members provide a brief summary about the MBCNT and the Youth of the NEMBC Lobby Group attended a number of Tectonic Program on page 14. meetings with various politicians, not only to build new relationships but to consolidate existing ones. Lobbying We are always pleased to get a report from Muslim governments at different levels has been set as a priority Community Radio (2MFM) in Sydney. Their report, on objective for the NEMBC this year. page 25, about their Open Day just shows how important they are in our multicultural Australia. While events Contributors to this edition were asked to comment in Iraq and Syria — with the formation of ISIS — are on recent topical issues as well as their views on ethnic extremely disturbing it is important not to feed racism community broadcasting. I would like to thank The Hon and bigotry back home. There are disturbing reports of Malcolm Turnbull and The Hon Jason Clare for their a rise in xenophobia at the moment. The MFM article contribution. I particularly like Mr Turnbull’s point about just shows how our Muslim friends are making a great ethnic broadcasting being a ‘crucial stitch’ in the fabric contribution, in Australia, to social cohesion. of Australia’s multicultural society. He adds that the challenge brought about by technological change presents In this edition we explore a number of different subjects ethnic broadcasters with the opportunity to embrace the and continue to look at what stations are doing for ‘best- internet, at the same time ensuring that content is locally practice’: we interviewed 3BBB and 2WOW. produced and audiences locally informed and connected. I Congratulations to 3ZZZ for 25 years of broadcasting. I appreciate Mr Clare’s article and the personal experience attended their celebration and was impressed with the he provides us. He shows how a language radio program number of attendees and the variety of performers. can be so powerful. The first Women’s State Forum dedicated to discussing Thanks to Senator Scott Ludlum for giving us his views of and sharing The NEMBC Women’s Committees’ plans the theme of the conference ‘The Challenge of Change’. on how to engage, empower and up-skill women in He likens ethnic broadcasters to the ‘essential spice’ broadcasting was held in Brisbane on the 2 August 2014, which makes multiculturalism work in Australia, compare see the report on page 22. It was a dynamic forum and as this to the ‘crucial stitch’ that Mr Turnbull refers to! a pilot was a great success. We will repeat this Women’s Thanks to Michelle Rowland for her contribution in Forum in another state or territory next year. making a stand against the government’s proposed Malo ‘aupito (Thanks in Tongan) changes to the RDA and in particular 18C. Thanks to Andrew Wilkie, a regular guest on community radio in Hobart, for expressing his strong support for community radio and in particular, multicultural radio and the challenge of accessing digital radio in Tasmania. Tangi Steen We thank you all for your invaluable contribution. NEMBC President Proud sponsors of the NEMBC 2014 Annual Conference Spots & Space: Supporting Multicultural Community Radio Since 1994 The Ethnic Broadcaster Spring 2014 - 1 The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP Ethnic broadcasting is The Australian Government recognises the key a crucial stitch in the contribution made by the community broadcasting fabric of Australia’s sector and this year will provide more than $17 million multicultural society. in support to the industry through the Community It provides Australia’s Broadcasting Foundation (CBF). This includes funds for ethnic communities broadcasters serving the general community, Indigenous with an invaluable Australians, the print handicapped and ethnic audiences; link to their culture, funds for community digital radio; funds for infrastructure heritage and news investment and the development of ethnic community from across the broadcasting; and support for the Australian Music Radio world. It broadens Airplay project which promotes contemporary Australian the perspectives of all bands and musicians. Australians as they find As I noted in April at the launch of SYN Nation and at their own sense of identity, purpose and place in the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia’s the world and gives reassurance to those who have function at Parliament House in September, the recently arrived in Australia and are settling into engagement of youth in community broadcasting is vitally their new home. important in securing a vibrant future for the sector. Community broadcasting is also playing an increasingly Twenty per cent of volunteers in this sector are under 26 important role in the new media landscape. It provides and it’s encouraging to see an organisation like SYN give communities with locally-produced content such as news, young people such a valuable opportunity in this industry. information and music that is otherwise unavailable from The CBF has provided significant funding to youth commercial broadcasters. In an environment where initiatives including grants to support Community Media commercial media operators are jostling for a national Training Organisation’s Leadership Project, 6RTR in Perth and international audience in a digital world, the provision for its Youth News Project, over 1,100 hours of ethnic of targeted local content is an important opportunity for youth programs and 3CR’s project to build participation the community broadcasting sector. in the station by young people from culturally and I often say that one of this country’s greatest strengths linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. Importantly, is its diversity.