Issue No. 4 (September 2002) — Independent Articles

Editorial

This issue of Transformations is made up of articles published independently of the themed issues for the year. In keeping with our policy of encouraging independent writing on regional issues, and in providing opportunities for writers to have their work published without delay, we have provided a special yearly issue of these articles, posted serially throughout the year.

The article 'Community radio, radicalism and the grassroots: Discussing the politics of contemporary Australian community' by Susan Forde, Michael Meadows and Kerrie Foxwell deals with the issue of community radio in regional Australia. They argue that community radio in regional Australia is dominated by a conservative politics driven by commerical imperatives, quite distinct from the radical grass-roots politics of earlier metropolitan based community radio.

Warwick Mules

September 2002