4ZZZ community radio station celebrates 50 years of being Brisbane’s ‘voice against injustice and bullshit’

Sat, 13 Dec 2025

Once ‘a lone voice of resistance’ in a conservative city, the community station has survived eviction and Queensland’s Joh Bjelke-Petersen government to deliver half a century of radical politics and local music

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Every wall is like a history book. One faded poster reads “4ZZZ survives the 14th of December 88”, marking the date Queensland’s longest-running community radio station was evicted from the University of Queensland, partly due to its radical politics.

Station historian Heather Anderson says students stormed right back in to reoccupy the place and the station was barely off air, although ultimately it agreed to find a new home.