ECO RADIO
PLAYLIST FOR 28 JULY 2010

Today we discussed the role of the creative arts in social change with Kathleen Cameron from the Art Action Union.

The tunes you heard were:

Fiest - Mushaboom (F)
Scissor Sisters - I don't feel like dancing
Chocolate Strings - Gof's groove (L)
Martha Wainwright - Far away (F)
Turin Breaks - Mirror (N)

Zed started broadcasting on 8 December 1975, while Queensland was under the yoke of the Bjelke-Petersen National Party government.
The federal Labour (Whitlam) government had been sacked just days earlier, but their media policy was facilitating the birth of a whole generation of Australian public broadcasting stations.
At the time, Australia had the highest concentration of media ownership in the Western Hemisphere.
4-ZZfm became the country's first non-commercial, non-government station, delivering an independent voice to the Australian airwaves.
And then things really got interesting...