Community broadcasters organised by where they actually are, from capital city stations to regional and remote ones. The collection most people are looking for when they say they want local radio and cannot find any.
Find an Australian station worth staying on
Online Radios is a directory, not a station. Browse what is streaming in Australia by genre, by state and territory, by language, and by whether you want talk or music, then go straight to the broadcaster's own player. No sign up, no algorithm deciding for you.
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Online Radios
Australian online radio, sorted so you can actually find something.
This station is not streaming yet. The schedule below is what is planned, and this player starts working the moment the stream goes live.
Through the day
All times Australian Eastern. The stream runs 24 hours.
Breakfast shelfThe stations that do a proper breakfast: news reads, weather, traffic and hosts who are actually awake. Sorted by state, because a Perth breakfast at this hour is not a Sydney breakfast.
ScheduledTalk and news deskEverything on the talk side of the split. Current affairs, sport talk, interview shows and the news services that stream around the clock.
ScheduledCommunity spotlightA rotating look at community broadcasters: campus stations, ethnic and multilingual community radio, seniors' programming and the volunteer-run stations that carry a town's own voice.
ScheduledGenre of the dayOne genre shelf brought to the front page. Country one day, drum and bass the next, easy listening after that, with the Australian stations in that genre listed together.
ScheduledState by stateThe listing reorders around geography. Pick a state or territory and see what is on air there, including regional stations that never make a national list.
ScheduledDrive musicMusic stations with the tempo up for the trip home, filtered so you can skip anything with a talk block in the middle of it.
ScheduledLanguage listeningStations broadcasting in languages other than English, grouped by language rather than buried inside a generic world music category.
ScheduledAfter dark and specialistJazz, classical, ambient, metal, devotional and the overnight automation streams. The long tail of the dial, which is where the interesting listening usually is.
ScheduledProgrammes
The whole spoken word side of the directory in one place: rolling news, current affairs, sport calls, interview and panel formats. Filterable so you are not handed a music station with a talk hour attached.
Stations broadcasting in languages other than English, listed by language rather than lumped into one multicultural bucket. Includes bilingual stations and stations that run language blocks at set times.
Country, rock, pop, dance, hip hop, jazz, classical, easy listening, devotional and the specialist corners. Each shelf lists Australian streams first, so you are hearing this country, not a global playlist.
University and campus broadcasters, which are where new music and new presenters turn up first. Grouped separately because they keep different hours to everyone else.
Ways to listen
Play from the listingEvery entry has a play control that starts the stream in your browser. You do not need to leave the directory to audition a station or compare two of them.
Straight to the broadcasterEach listing also links to the station's own site and player. If a broadcaster prefers you listen on their page, that is one click away, and their stream is always theirs.
On your phoneThe directory is built for a phone browser. Add it to your home screen and the browse filters, the player and your last station are all there when you open it.
Your shortlistSave the stations you keep coming back to. The shortlist stays on your device, so there is no account to create and nothing for us to store about you.
About
Online Radios exists to answer one question: what should I listen to right now, in Australia, online. Radio listening moved to phones and browsers years ago, but finding a station is still harder than it should be. Search engines return station websites, not streams. Global apps bury Australian broadcasters under thousands of overseas listings. Community stations, campus radio and language broadcasters, which are often the most interesting listening in the country, are the hardest of all to find. So this is a directory, built to be browsed rather than searched. You can move through it by genre, by state and territory, by language, and by the one distinction that matters most when you press play: talk or music. Every entry links to the broadcaster's own stream or player, the listings are maintained by hand, and stations are described in plain terms rather than marketing copy, so you know what you are getting before you commit an hour to it. Online Radios is published by SUKH SANDHU PTY LTD (ACN 679 292 392, ABN 49 679 292 392) from Melbourne. Listings are editorial. Inclusion does not indicate any partnership, endorsement or commercial relationship with a broadcaster, and any station can ask to be added, corrected or removed.
Questions
Do you broadcast any of these stations yourselves?
No. Online Radios is a directory. We do not programme, produce or own the stations listed here. Every stream belongs to the broadcaster that runs it, and playing a station from this site sends you to their stream.
How do I get a station listed?
Use the Submit a station page. Tell us the station name, the stream link, where you broadcast from, the language or languages you use, and whether you are mainly talk or mainly music. Listing is free and it is editorial, so we may check the stream before it goes live.
Does a station pay to be included or ranked higher?
No. Listings are not for sale and there is no paid placement. Order within a collection is editorial and geographic, which is why a small regional community station can sit above a metropolitan one.
A station on the list is dead or the stream has moved. What now?
Tell us through the contact page and we will check it. Streams change hosts, licences change and stations close, so broken entries are a normal part of running a directory and we would rather hear about them from a listener than find them months later.