Membership

The NEMBC has a national membership of ethnic and multicultural broadcasters from community radio and television stations across Australia.

NEMBC membership is open to any Australian community radio or television program which is regularly broadcast in a language other than English, or a multicultural program. NEMBC membership costs $35 per financial year.

By joining the NEMBC, ethnic broadcasters demonstrate their support for multilingual programming on a national level. They also join a diverse national community of like-minded broadcasters, volunteers and community leaders representing over 95 community language groups.

Other interested individuals and organisations who support the goals of the NEMBC can apply to become an affiliated member. Click here to see the NEMBC’s membership list for 2020/2022. We are still finalising the 2023 to 2024 list as we move our finaincal year to a calender year.

• Membership Benefits

  Members receive a number of immediate benefits:

  Discounts to the NEMBC National Conference

  • The ability to contribute to policies and projects at the Conference and AGM and through the NEMBC’s committees
  • Voting rights at the AGM and eligibility to be elected the NEMBC’s committees
  • The opportunity to be nominated for one of the NEMBC’s prestigious multicultural community broadcasting awards
  • Subscription and delivery of The Ethnic Broadcaster (the NEMBC’s triannual magazine)
  • The opportunity to be published in The Ethnic Broadcaster
  • Participation in the NEMBC’s projects
  • Travel subsidies to the National Conference from anywhere in Australia
  • Access to the NEMBC’s services, including advice and support on issues facing ethnic community broadcasters

• Unity and Representation

  The NEMBC plays an essential role in lobbying the federal government to maintain and increase funding for the ethnic and multicultural community broadcasting sector. Our annual lobby campaign gives a voice to the sector, without which the ethnic program funding which stations receive would be under threat. Stations can currently receive funding for ethnic broadcasting from the Community Broadcasting Foundation. The NEMBC has recently negotiated for higher funding rates for programs at regional and remote stations, programs serving new and emerging communities, and new programs in their first two years of broadcasting.

  Membership is important to us because it demonstrates to the government the drive and passion of multicultural community radio programmers and the size and reach of the ethnic community broadcasting sector—truly Australia’s largest multilingual institution. Through your membership you can inform the NEMBC of some the issues and challenges ethnic broadcasters encounter so that we can develop strategies to better assist broadcasters.

• Membership Application

  To join the NEMBC please complete print and complete the appropriate form attached and post please email it to operations@nembc.org.au and admin@nembc.org.au or post it to: NEMBC, PO Box 391, Abbotsford VIC 3067. Payment can be made to the NEMBC directly via our bank account Bendigo Bank BSB 633 000 and acocount number 120737887 and please inform us via email that you have paid.

  • NEMBC Membership Application Forms are available to download here.

  Please contact us if you have any queries about joining the NEMBC.

• Membership Renewal

  To join or renew your membership, contact the NEMBC Operations Officer at operations@nembc.org.au or admin mobile on: 0403 203 255