From Local to Global will be picking up where SubjectACT left off. From Local to Global is a new current affairs program that will be launching on Canberra community radio 2XX in late August, 2022. We’ll be covering local Canberra stories as well as national and international stories that make a difference to our community. Importantly, we’d like you to join us on this journey and be part of shaping this dynamic new program. Find out how...

Canberra Refugee Support provides good neighbour support to families from refugee backgrounds living in Canberra. In 2022, this local charity is supporting more families than ever before. CRS President, Doug Hynd, discusses the work of CRS and the challenges it faces in 2022.

Join Virginia Haussegger AM for a very stimulating, hopeful and wide ranging conversation about gender equality plus so much more. First aired in 2021.

Virginia is an award winning journalist, gender equity advocate and communication strategist. Many of you may remember her as our local ABC News presenter.

Australia's new security partnership, AUKUS, will see Australia acquiring nuclear powered submarines, and yet, such a significant development has had little scrutiny, particularly within the Australian parliament. Dr Sue Wareham, Medical Association for the Prevention of War, discusses AUKUS and the risks it poses in escalating nuclear militarisation and conflict in the Indo Pacific region.

Helen Oakey, Executive Director, Conservation Council, ACT Region talks about the biodiversity value of this block of land in Molonglo, why everybody’s talking about it, and what’s being done to save it from the developers’ bulldozers.

More info: https://conservationcouncil.org.au/

Kristen Sutcliffe, audiologist and bassoonist with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, outlines the CSO and Better Hearing Canberra’s free concert program for music lovers that live with hearing loss. It starts next Tuesday, 1 March, so be quick! For ticket enquiries call 62626772.

More info: https://cso.org.au/event/rediscovering-music-2022-1/

Join Helen Oakey, Executive Director of the Conservation Council ACT Region in this summer edition encore interview. The Conservation Council’s Save Lawson Grassland campaign aims to stop the Defence Housing Australia from building a suburb right over critically endangered grassland here in Canberra.

Also in the show: The Tassie Devil – Aussie Ark rewilding mainland Australia.

Join Michelle Robertson, CEO, RSPCA ACT, as she talks about the tips and tricks to help your pet adjust to life after lockdown, plus how to keep your forever friends safe and happy over the holiday season.

RSPCA Adopt a Pet: https://www.rspca-act.org.au/adopt-pet

Hearing the news that you have a spinal cord injury is devastating, and the world as you know it changes forever. Patrick Will, Co-ordinator of the Peer & Family Support team, SCIA, talks about a new service in Canberra that’s there to help you navigate your way forward.

Spinal Cord Injuries Australia: https://scia.org.au/ 

E: [email protected] T: 1800 819 775

Refugees trapped in Indonesia, with no work or education rights, live without economic security and have little prospect of finding permanent resettlement in a third country. Canberra's Hanalei Bickley is swimming the length of Lake Burley Griffin to raise money in her bid to secure freedom for on refugee in Indonesia, her friend, Elijah.