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DEAD AIR #140 !RADIOTHON SPECIAL! by The Departure

Representing Castlemaine as ‘regional activators’, Hayley West, Nici Wright & Jenny Blake talk about our time in Hobart (27-29 Aug 2025) being trained up in community death care. Hosted generously by Palliative Care Tasmania, the project is funded by the Wicking Trust in partnership with Social Health Australia, the Death Literacy Institute, the Good Death Impact Network and the Australian Home Funeral Alliance. WATCH THIS SPACE!

Chloe Hope – a self-paced course that invites a radical reconsideration of mortality. The Deep End

Fellow MAINfm presenter guests in the studio: Crag Carrick (Someplace, Somewhere) and Stephen McMahon (Down To Earth) with their personal death stories.

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No live DEAD AIR :( by The Departure

Have you heard? MAINfm is currently homeless! The Old Hospital at Halford Street, our station home, has been flooded due to a burst water main - but thanks to the dedication and tenacity of our technical team, we are still on the air!

You’ll still hear DEAD AIR on the airwaves with prerecorded shows, but I won’t be live in the studio for the foreseeable future.

We are broadcasting remotely, which means you will notice disruptions to our regular programming.

Our staff and volunteers are working hard to source solutions, and we hope to find a temporary home. In the meantime, thanks for your patience and for sticking with us. We’ll be back with regular programming soon.

Check out our Instagram or Facebook for updates - and you can always listen back to old shows on MixCloud

DEAD AIR #50 by The Departure

‘Dying to Ask’ Heathcote Community House, Tues 13 December 2022, 10.30am-Noon

Gothic Networks - Webs, Traps and Global Trends conference #GANZA23 Online 24th-25th of January 2023 9.30am AWST. Hosted by Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA) & Curtin University, tickets: https://tinyurl.com/y73j7knj

Eulogy by Aaron Freeman.

Why don't we allow ourselves to grieve pets the same way we do people? ABC Kia Handley https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/newcastle-hunter-catch-up/pet-grief/101656784

TRACKS: Lungs On Fire – WITCHSNAKE / Immortality Roars – Rudra / (Here Comes The) Arrows of Fortune - Emily Robb / Troubled – Outright / The New Sensation - IDLES