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The Voices Of The Two-Thirds World on Australian Community Radio

Since April 1992, on Sydney's premier community radio station
2SER-FM every Wednesday from 7:00 to 8:00 pm a team of
broadcasters of Sri Lankan, Mauritius, Pakistani, Korean, Kenyan,
Filipino, Malaysian and Papua New Guinean backgrounds have been
producing the "Voices Of The Two-Thirds World" - a program
focusing on a wide range of issues from culture to religion and
politics of the two-thirds of humankind living in the post-
colonial countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean,
the Middle-East and the South Pacific.

>From Friday the 9th of April 1993, a half-hour version of the
highlights of each week's "Voices From The South" has being
beamed nationally via the Community Broadcasting Association of
Australia's (CBAA) new COMRADSAT or the Community Radio
Satellite.  This links 40 community radio stations around
Australia 24 hours a day.

Each week's program includes a 10 minute World Newsreel using the
worldwide resources of the Third-World news agency Inter Press
Service, on alternate weeks it is possible to listen to  an
Environmental Update or a Human Rights Alert.  All these news
bulletins aim to bring you the unravelling story of the "New
World Order" from a refreshingly Southern perspective.  If you
are one of those who felt depressed at the thought of George
Bush's post-Gulf War "New World Order", "Voices From The South"
may cheer you up by taking you behind the smoke screen of Western
news values and stereo-types.

"For far too long, the Third World (South) reported in the
Australian media has been about the victims - of repression,
poverty, deprivation, illiteracy and so forth.  As if, two-thirds
of human kind are helpless bystanders drifting from one disaster
to another, waiting for the boons of development to fall into
their laps from the West.  In "Voices From The South" we aim to
de-mystify that image" says the producer-coordinator of the
program.

With increasing numbers of new migrants to Australia coming from
the South, it is important for Australians to know the other side
of the story.  "Most migrants come from these backgrounds and
because of community ignorance about their backgrounds and
lifestyles, their professional qualifications and skills are not
recognised here, their right to a place of worship is not
respected and they are treated as if Australians have done them a
great favour by allowing them to come here.  Thus before long
many find their dreams shattered".

"Voices From The South" would like to exchange programs with
community broadcasters in the South.  You can write to them at:

"Voices From The South"
P.O. Box 596
Epping NSW 2121
Australia


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 This article is from InteRadio, Vol. 6, No.2., the newsletter
of AMARC, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters.
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