One entry, sent once. A temple, gurdwara, mosque, church, community group or cultural association sends the details through Radio AU, we check them, and they go to the stations whose listeners the event is actually for. Each station reads the diary in its own language, in its own words, at whatever point its own morning sits. Collecting it once is the part no single station can do for itself.
Every station on the network, in one place
Radio AU has no stream of its own. It is where the network is laid out for you: every station with its own page, what is playing now and what is next, the schedule across the whole dial and the programmes on it. Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi, Haryanvi, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri and English sit alongside retro, 90s, ghazal, folk, Sufi and party mixes, while Sukh Gurbani and Sukh Bhajans run devotional days of their own, from the pre dawn hours through to the last recording of the night. Pick one and the player takes you straight there. If you would rather not pick at all, Sukh Radio is the mixed language station that runs the languages together in a single running order.
The stations
Every station streams around the clock. Pick one.
Flagship
By language
By genre
Devotional
Through the day
All times Australian Eastern. The stream runs 24 hours.
First light on the devotional stationsSukh Gurbani is already hours into Amrit Vela, which opens at three, while Sukh Bhajans begins its own day with morning aarti. Both stations run right around the clock: one sequenced by the raag of the hour, the other following the week and the lunar month.
ScheduledBreakfast across the language stationsThe language stations are into their own mornings by now, each on its own clock and in its own language: Melbourne weather, how the roads look, what is on in the community this weekend, and music that suits a kitchen at seven. They do not share a running order, so no two of them sound the same at this hour.
ScheduledMid-morning melodyRetro and ghazal take the softest hours of the day, with older film music, playback classics and long album cuts that the busier dayparts never have room for.
ScheduledMidday news readsShort bulletins in language across the talk-leaning stations, then straight back into music. Nobody has to sit through half an hour of headlines to hear a song.
ScheduledThe regional hourHaryanvi, Rajasthani and Bhojpuri come forward, with the folk repertoire that rarely gets a full hour anywhere else on the Australian dial.
ScheduledDrive, in every languageThe language stations lift the tempo for the trip home while the party and 90s stations run the high-energy end of the network for anyone who wants noise instead of talk.
ScheduledGhazals and Sufi after darkThe evening belongs to the slow stations. Ghazals, qawwali and Sufi sit together through the night. The devotional stations are well into their own evenings by this hour: the closing raags on one, the evening sitting on the other.
ScheduledOvernight, station by stationThe dial does not go uniform after midnight. Sukh Gurbani moves towards Amrit Vela, the party mixes keep running until it gets light, the language stations stretch songs out to their full length, and Salaam-E-Zindagi closes on the last dedications of the night.
ScheduledProgrammes
An hour built around Haryanvi, Rajasthani and Bhojpuri music and the folk traditions behind them, including the wedding and harvest repertoire that mainstream playlists skip.
Long form, low volume, no chatter. Ghazals and Sufi music given the space they need, with the occasional note on the poet or the composer rather than a full lecture.
Sukh Gurbani gives Sunday morning a set order rather than a continuous stream: the morning raags in sequence and a long composition allowed its whole length. Sukh Bhajans runs to the week and the lunar month instead, so what a Sunday sounds like there depends on where the month has got to. Both stations are on air the rest of the day as well, and this is simply where a Sunday listener would start.
Every stream on the network side by side: what each station is playing at this minute, what is coming next, and a jump between any two of them that does not stop the music. It is the one view no single station can give you, because no station can see the others. Requests and dedications are not taken here. Salaam-E-Zindagi is the station built around them, and its page carries the form.
Ways to listen
Web playerPress play on any station from the front page and it keeps running while you browse the rest of the network. Switching stations does not reload the site.
Phone and tabletOpen radioau.com.au in your phone browser and add it to your home screen. It opens straight into the player and remembers the station you were last on.
Smart speakers and connected TVsIf your speaker or TV can open a web stream, the network streams work there too. Each station page carries its direct stream link for exactly that.
In the carPair your phone with the car the way you already do for music and the station you picked keeps playing for the whole drive. Choose here before you pull out: a dial is much easier to read in a driveway than on a freeway.
About
Radio AU is the network site for the Sukh Radio Network, a family of online stations broadcasting from Melbourne to listeners across Australia and anywhere else the stream reaches. It is a place rather than a station. Radio AU does not programme a stream of its own, it carries all of them: every station has its page here, with what is playing right now, what is coming next, the full schedule across the dial and the programmes sitting on it, and one player that moves you from station to station without stopping the music. The network itself is built on two simple ideas. The first is language. Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi, Haryanvi, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri and English each get a station of their own, so nobody has to wait for the one hour a week when their language finally gets a slot. The second is mood. Retro, the 90s, ghazals, folk, Sufi and party mixes run as stations in their own right. The two devotional stations are stations in exactly the same sense: Sukh Gurbani carries kirtan around the clock, sequenced by the raag of the hour and opening its Amrit Vela block at three in the morning, and Sukh Bhajans follows the week and the lunar month, with aarti at first light and last light and group singing between them. Sukh Radio sits on that dial as one station among the rest, the mixed language stream for a household that does not want to choose between languages at all. Radio AU is where you choose. Sukh Radio is what you get when you would rather not. One station takes requests and dedications, and that is Salaam-E-Zindagi, which builds its running order out of what listeners send rather than out of a decade or a language. Every station streams online and is free to listen to, wherever you are. The network is owned and operated by SUKH SANDHU PTY LTD (ACN 679 292 392, ABN 49 679 292 392), an Australian company based in Melbourne. We broadcast online only. We are not a training, education or regulatory body and we make no claim to any form of accreditation.
Questions
What is the Sukh Radio Network?
It is the group of online stations that Radio AU carries: language stations, genre stations for retro, 90s, ghazals, folk, Sufi and party mixes, two devotional stations that each run a full day of their own, Salaam-E-Zindagi for requests and dedications, and Sukh Radio, the mixed language station that runs across the lot. They share a player and a home on this site, but each one keeps its own clock, its own sound and its own audience, which is why Radio AU lists them separately rather than blending them into one stream.
Which language should I start on?
Start on the one you speak at home. If you are between languages, Sukh English and the genre stations give you a full day without the language deciding it for you. And if nobody in the room wants to make the call, put on Sukh Radio: it moves between the languages in one running order, so there is nothing to choose.
Does it cost anything to listen?
No. Every station on the network is free to stream from radioau.com.au. Your own mobile data or internet charges are the only cost, so use wifi if you are listening for hours.
Can our community group get a mention in the diary?
Yes. The community diary is open to not for profit community groups, temples, gurdwaras, mosques, churches and cultural associations. Send the details through the contact page and tell us which language station your audience listens to. You send it to Radio AU once and it goes to the stations that serve that audience, each of them reading it in its own language and in its own morning.