CAAMA Radio News May 30 – 2023
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CAAMA Radio produces two local news bulletins airing at 12pm and 5pm every weekday.
A full bulletin can also be heard online.
In this bulletin:
- Victorian Independent senator Lidia Thorpe says she will lodge a case with the Australian Human Rights Commission after receiving legal advice there was “enough ground” for her to proceed with her claim of racism within the party.
- New data shows a growing crisis of the imprisonment of Aboriginal people in New South Wales with the proportion of First Nations people in prison now the highest on record.
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has countered claims that the government has rushed into the Voice referendum and and says Australians would not succumb to fear campaigns about the constitutional change.
- A central Australian Arrernte woman from Mparntwe (Alice Springs) who has been exploring Aboriginal knowledge and applications of fungi has become the first Indigenous PhD scholar at the University of Queensland’s Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation.
- and more