 It's exactly 20 years since Three Triple Z started broadcasting in Melbourne. From humble beginnings in 1989, the station has developed from strength to strength. Three Triple Z is now the biggest multilingual radio station in Australia. It's a community radio station, so it's about different ethnic communities making radio for themselves and having a voice for their own communities. Some 400,000 listeners tune in every week with programs broadcast in more than 60 languages. Three Triple Z provides essential information to migrant communities, as well as entertainment and a welcoming forum to share ideas and discuss current affairs. Triple Z plays a really vital role in multicultural Melbourne because we are so connected with the communities that we serve and anyone can get involved. It's a volunteer organisation. Four hundred volunteers of every age and cultural background keep Three Triple Z on air. It gives people from diverse backgrounds, diverse cultures, everything in between a chance to kind of provide some sort of input into the whole society of Melbourne. The station's youngest volunteer is still at school, while some veteran radio personalities are in their late 80s. George Zeet has spent many years broadcasting for the Lebanese community. I'm happy, I'm very happy to do my program and talk on the radio and that's become like a hobby for me. But his positive attitude and years of experience aren't always enough to always keep listeners happy. Sometimes they ring us, they ask for a song and we are in trouble sometimes, we don't have it. Meanwhile, in Sydney, 2,000 of their families have been broadcasting since 1992. More than 300 volunteers broadcast in 50 different languages to the entire Sydney area, as well as some of regional New South Wales. And these programs give these people some connection. They may not yet fully comfortable with linking out to the mainstream community, but still they are a link out to something. The connection clearly important to both volunteers and listeners. They love it. They love it and they wait for it and they always say when you finish, we're waiting for next week to start again. 98.5