Archive for the ‘Cambodia’ Category

3ZZZ 92.3FM, Wednesday 9 April with Olivia & Murugi

April 4, 2008

Radio 3ZZZ 92.3 FM, Wednesday 9 April 2008, 7-8am

  • Local agencies: What do they do?
  • How can they use radio to publicise their projects/campaigns/programs?
  • How can 3ZZZ encourage more guests and volunteers to get involved in ‘Starting Out’ and other innovative programs on 3ZZZ?


Jambo Australia!
This is Starting Out on radio 3ZZZ. On the program today … (see details below). AND We want you! So please have a listen, and if you’d like to know more about getting involved please give us a call (phone 9415 1923) at the end of the program. (Repeat in Swahili.)

Draft schedule
All times are approximate & interviews are subject to change at any time.

7am: Introduction by Murugi & Olivia.

7:05: Phone interview with Colette Bacash, Settlement Support Worker, New Hope Migrant and Refugee Centre, see http://www.nhf.org.au/Text/1096527700968-6170/About-the-NHMRC

Discus “Information Sessions for Newly Arrived African Women” e.g.

7:15: About us; and any news from old friends.

7:30: Oxfam’s Brendan Ross

The story behind Oxfam’s recent Refugee Realities exhibition.

7:40: Ms Dee Basinski from VicHealth.

VicHealth runs many projects about Mental Health & WellbeingDiscrimination and Violence and the links between violence against women and mental health. To quote:

Intimate partner violence is responsible for more ill-health and premature death in Victorian women under the age of 45 than any other of the well-known risk factors, including high blood pressure, obesity and smoking; 58% of the health impact experienced by women is anxiety and depression.

VicHealth has developed a public health model for the prevention ofviolence against women, which classifies interventions as primary, early intervention and intervention. More at: http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/Content.aspx?topicID=115

And also, to mark next week’s World Health Day (Monday 7 April), comedian Akmal Saleh and former Premier, Steve Bracks, will launch a TV commercial, that has been produced by the Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre (SMRC), featuring high profile celebrities and community leaders from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds, as part of their Family Men Don’t do Family Violence campaign to prevent the incidence of family violence. Akmal Saleh said:

I’ve put my name and face to this campaign because I believe that hearing from other men, like me, that family violence is not on, will help the message get through. I’m often making jokes, but family violence is no laughing matter. The campaign title is true – family men don’t do family violence.

7:53: Ending.

What’s coming up ‘Starting Out’ in two weeks?
Starting Out is sponsored by the City of Yarra.
Call us now: 9415 1923.

8.00: 3ZZZ Greek Youth program.

See also Yarra Settlement Forum blog

3ZZZ Cambodian program – Wednesday 4-5 pm

July 26, 2007

3ZZZ has a Cambodian program: Wednesday 4-5 pm on 92.3 FM in Melbourne.

See 3zzz.com.au/staging/broadcast/cambodian.htm for more details.

Cr Youhorn Chea, Mayor of Greater Dandenong

July 26, 2007

Cr Youhorn Chea, also known as Uncle, is the Mayor of the City of Greater Dandenong. He was inducted in December 2006 [see story by Shaun Inguanzo, Star News: www.senews.com.au], and according to Inguanzo, “speaks three languages and has a host of qualifications to his name, including a Bachelor of Civil Engineering and Graduate Diploma of Arts in Human Services.” Cr Chea is originally from Cambodia.

Cr Chea has also been a committee member of the Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau (Scaab), and

was the former President of the Cambodian Association of Victoria. He has been a Councillor for the City of Greater Dandenong since 1997 and the Mayor of the Council during 2001-2002. Youhorn has worked as a Welfare Coordinator for the Cambodian Association from 1987 until 2001 and has also held the position of Director since 2002. In 1991 Youhorn graduated from Monash University with a Diploma of Arts in Human Services Administration.

Cr Chea is an active supporter of ethnic community radio, and multilingual stations like 3ZZZ.

Campaign to better fund community broadcasting

July 25, 2007


Value Our Voices - Election 2007

The National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council (NEMBC) is that body that represents ethnic community broadcasters across Australia.

The ‘Value Our Voices’ funding campaign was launched in July 2007. The campaign aims to have funding restored in the areas of content development and training for volunteer broadcasters and improved management of community radio and television stations across Australia.

More information will be available via the following links

Federal politicians to lobby include

Others to express their support for Ethnic Broadcasting and the campaign include

Other resources

  • “Community Broadcasters Disappointed by Federal Budget” (13-05-04) via www.cbonline.org.au

Value Our Voices - Election 2007

Green Gecko Project

May 5, 2007

From today’s Saturday Extra on ABC Radio National
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/saturdayextra/stories/2007/1913314.htm

In the first of our ‘Traveller’s Tales’ we hear from a woman who was peripatetic and journeyed to many places around the world, but she never wanted to visit South East Asia.

Yet in 2004 she found herself in Cambodia and despite the difficulties she ended up staying.

Tania Palmer is now married to a Cambodian man and has no immediate plans to return to Australia – but she wishes her Cambodian mother-in-law would not put grasshoppers into some of the evening meals.

Guest: Tania Palmer, traveller and founder of the Green Gecko Project http://www.greengeckoproject.org

Presenter: Geraldine Doogue
Producer: Jo Jarvis
Story Researcher and Producer: Julie Browning