(L-R) Brian Panisset, Deb Campbell, Lucy Field, Jason Slack-Smith, Helen Whitby, Andrew Tucker, Angie Whitfield

We held our AGM on 2nd October.
Our new office bearers are:
President: Jason Slack-Smith
Vice-president: Brian Panissett
Secretary: Angela Whitfield
Treasurer: Lucy Field
Youth Rep: Deb Campbell
General members: Phil Brown, Andrew Tucker, Helen Whitby and Wayne Carlson.
We would like to thank June Colley for chairing the meeting.

Barry Charles Award

Mary-Rose Long was voted by the members present to receive the “Barry Charles Award”.
This award is given for outstanding contribution to Noosa Community Radio.

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Mark Rodriquez
Station Supervisor.

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Thank you to all of our listeners and the local businesses who gave so generously

“White Australia has a black history, we’ve got to keep coming back to that”

Diet wondered to Samantha why Aboriginal people seemed to be almost invisible on the coast. She explained that they are not.
Runs 10′57″

“The constitutional debate is far more important in essence than the 1967 referendum”

Apart from the bread and butter, housing, health and employment issues that are mostly much bigger challenges to Aborigines than white people, an issue that is getting a lot of debate is whether and how to write Aborigines into the Australian constitution. Diet and Samantha talked to Sydney-based Ray Jackson, president of the Indigenous Social Justice Association.
Runs 19′08″

“You don’t have to be Aboriginal or black or Indigenous to feel the presence of what Uluru really has”

Why is Uluru such an important place to Indigenous people? For one thing, because the songlines of all the hundreds of tribes converge there. Samantha explained what one feels being near the Rock.
Runs 1′31″

“Australia is becoming more tolerant, and very multicultural – if you’re racist you’re so stuck in the past, you’ll get left behind and lose a lot of friends”

Samantha shares her life with a white partner, filmmaker Michael Butler. Diet asked whether a mixed race relationship like theirs ever runs into unpleasantness in society at large or in their respective families.
Runs 5′19″

“We need you to learn the white man’s way so you can lift up his words and tell us what they mean”

An Aboriginal leader in northwest NSW, Michael Anderson, who leads the 3,000 Euahlayi, has put into the public domain the argument that Australia is still a colony and that he has papers to prove it.
Runs 18′19″

We’d be very happy to hear from you. Drop us an email to tribalvoice@noosacommunityradio.org. We want this to become a two-way street where you get to have your say – by email first, perhaps by phone calls later.

The Curves are a collaboration of some of the south-east’s most interesting musical prospects Sam Liddell, James Simon and Nash Johnston. The band united for a common cause to revive what is considered by most to be the golden age of popular music of the 1960’s, a time of peace, love and pushing the limits of the human experience. In essence the group considers they are, in their own unpretentious way, ‘carrying the torch’ for a bygone era that is still both celebrated and missed.

First heard on the airwaves of Noosa Community Radio, The Curves crosses the generational barrier and were greatly received by guests and patrons with the offer of more gigs at the Noosa Yacht and Rowing Club in the New Year. Noosa Community Radio proudly supports local artists and gives the opportunity for local musicians to be heard on radio.

The night also boasted great entertainment from station personnel with performances from local OZ music duo PJ Party and our treasurer, Sue Matthews.

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