Since the early 1990s it has been part of the Gadigal Information Service (GIS), and is the only radio station in Sydney providing full-time broadcasting to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

In 1981, Maureen Watson and her son Tiga Bayles started broadcasting for 10 minutes each week on community radio station 2SER 107.3 FM.

2RSR was initially broadcast from the University of Sydney, before moving to a terraced house at 27 Cope Street, in Redfern,[1] next to the old Black Theatre building.

The 54-minute film features Linda Burney, Maureen Watson, Brenda Croft, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Mac Silva, Tiga Bayles, and many others.

[5] It was the success of Radio Redfern that inspired Cathy Craigie, Matthew Cook, and Tim Bishop to set up the Gadigal Information Service (GIS), an Aboriginal-owned and -operated communication organisation.

[9][2] A new building was designed by architects Tonkin Zulaikha Greer to accommodate the recording studios and offices of the Gadigal Information Service, with exterior artwork created by Aboriginal artist Adam Hill[8] (now known as Blak Douglas), inspired by the life of Kevin Gilbert and his writing of the play The Cherry Pickers.

[12] As well as its format of Indigenous and black music, the station broadcasts news, current affairs, sport and listener involvement programs.