Bushfire
ABC Illawarra / By Jessica Clifford and Justin Huntsdale Gordon Waters manages Braidwood FM with a handful of volunteers and was on air for months during the bushfires. (ABC News: Justin Huntsdale) Key points: Braidwood FM was the only local source of emergency broadcasting available to the town through the black summer fires Volunteers kept it on air for months on end […]
“The local volunteer radio station became our version of London Calling” Walker says, referring to the BBC’s wartime broadcasts to Nazi-occupied Europe. “We turned on the radio every hour to hear where the fires were.” Article from the Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/darkest-hours-inspire-artistic-response-20200706-p559h4.html
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