MainFM is managed by a Committee elected by Members of the Association.

See our Committee Role Descriptions here.

The current Committee comprises:

President:  Richard McLeish

Rich co-hosts the Sunday Roast on Sunday afternoons. A refugee from the commercial media landscape, he’s a strong believer in the power of community. Outside of MainFM, he can be found building lego with Max, waving a camera around at regional events, or crashing his mountain bike on a nearby trail.

Vice President: Hayley West
Hayley is a socially engaged artist, librarian, passionate advocate for death literacy, and aspiring doom metal vocalist. Her Monday morning radio show, DEAD AIR, has been nominated for multiple CBAA awards. You might spot her hooning around the streets of Castlemaine in her hearse, arranging unique funerals with The Departure, laughing too loudly at Castlemaine Library, or providing tech support at La Trobe University’s Art School in Bendigo.

Secretary: Suzanne Hogan
After retiring from the daily grind of a 30+ year public service career, Suze took a long break before starting up her own business as an investigator/consultant. She has extensive management, HR and project management experience. Suze packs dry goods at a local organic business and loves everything Castlemaine and its community has to offer. She likes cooking and sharing food, gardening, dancing in the kitchen and listening to MainFM.

Treasurer:  Rachael Cilauro

Rachael is a librarian and part time chef living and loving on Djaara Country. a background in event management and community development and party planning Rachael loves music, putting together playlists and clunky crossfades.

 General Committee: Ian Patrick
Ian’s experience in the media commenced as a presenter at 3CR in Melbourne with a music and talk breakfast program, subsequently working in freelance and staff positions at the ABC making radio documentaries and features. Ian has also worked as a teacher, university lecturer, arts administrator, project manager, and for the last 20 years as a self-employed consultant in the areas of evaluation, training and organisational development.  He enjoys producing The Latin Hour for MainFM drawing on his love of music and salsa dancing.

General Committee: Simon Smallchua

Simon is a digital professional with a passion for community. He founded his first consultancy at 17 in 2003 and went on to co-found Harvey, a business development consultancy with ethical leanings based in Chewton. His experience and vision will help MainFM reach its potential in the digital era.

General Committee: Martin Lee

Martin is the host of Still Life With Pansy on MainFM, a show about contemporary queer art and artists. He works as a disability support worker while pursuing his own artistic endeavours. In previous guises, Martin has worked in a variety of public and private sector positions: from environmental consultant and university lecturer, to hospitality, administration and window dresser. Martin grew up in south west Victoria, lived in Melbourne for many years (punctuated by brief stints in Daylesford and Ballarat), and finally landed in Castlemaine about 10 years ago.

General Committee: Luqman Latif

Luqman is a host on MainFM with his show Electronic Lovers weekly on Tuesdays. He is a DJ, event organiser and producer and radio host with previous experience on community radio through 3CR and currently also presenting on AREA 3000 in Naarm. Luqman joined the Committee of Management as a volunteer with intentions to help out programmers as well as to help alleviate the workload from our station’s overworked existing team!