CAAMA Radio News, April 14, 2023
Get in contact with the CAAMA newsroom: news@caama.com.au
CAAMA Radio produces two local news bulletins airing at 12pm and 6pm every weekday. A full bulletin can also be heard online.

In this bulletin:

• Communities in Western Australia’s Northwest are on red alert as severe tropical cyclone Ilsa crosses the Kimberley coast.
• An Arrernte traditional owner has accused the Federal Opposition Leader of weaponising Alice Springs in the no campaign against an indigenous voice to Parliament.
• A public hearing into the National Redress Scheme has heard that a decrease in funding and increase in demand for services has eroded trust among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander survivors.

and more.

CAAMA Radio News, April 13, 2023
Get in contact with the CAAMA newsroom: news@caama.com.au
CAAMA Radio produces two local news bulletins airing at 12pm and 6pm every weekday. A full bulletin can also be heard online.

In this bulletin:

• The Bureau of Meteorology says tropical cyclone Ilsa off the WA Northwest coast is expected to reach category five intensity.
• Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton visited Alice Springs to speak to local community members about crime.
• Country Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has said she is happy as Federal NT Senator and was not seeking to become shadow Indigenous affairs minister.

and more

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CAAMA Radio News, April 12, 2023
Get in contact with the CAAMA newsroom: news@caama.com.au
CAAMA Radio produces two local news bulletins airing at 12pm and 6pm every weekday. A full bulletin can also be heard online.

In this bulletin:

• The shadow Attorney General and Shadow Minister of Indigenous Affairs, Julian Leeser, has resigned from the Coalition frontbench over the Liberal party’s opposition to the Indigenous voice to parliament.
• A remote community in WA’s Kimberley region says maintaining power supplies will be the main challenge posed by a major storm that’s developing off the coast.
• Concerns have been raised over a flat fee of $3,000 that gas companies will be charged for groundwater licenses when fracking.

and more.

CAAMA Radio News, April 11, 2023
Get in contact with the CAAMA newsroom: news@caama.com.au
CAAMA Radio produces two local news bulletins airing at 12pm and 6pm every weekday. A full bulletin can also be heard online.

In this bulletin:

• The Northern Territory government says negotiations are continuing regarding Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker’s position after he proposed mediation chaired by a retired interstate judge.
• Coastal communities in Western Australia’s north are bracing for a tropical cyclone that could make landfall later this week.
• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he expects several high profile sportspeople to back a yes vote in the voice referendum publicly.

and more.

CAAMA Radio News, April 10, 2023
Get in contact with the CAAMA newsroom: news@caama.com.au
CAAMA Radio produces two local news bulletins airing at 12pm and 6pm every weekday. A full bulletin can also be heard online.

In this bulletin:

• A member of the voice referendum working group has criticised the Liberal Party after its leader announced they would formally oppose the indigenous voice referendum.
• A 20-metre-tall Christian cross at the top Memory Mountain, near Ikuntji or Haasts Bluff, about 200km west of Alice Springs, was officially opened to the public this past Good Friday.
• Alice Springs addiction services are warning meth addiction is growing in the town, saying children as young as 11 had been seen using the drug on river beds.

and more.

CAAMA Radio News, April 4, 2023
Get in contact with the CAAMA newsroom: news@caama.com.au
CAAMA Radio produces two local news bulletins airing at 12pm and 6pm every weekday. A full bulletin can also be heard online.

In this bulletin:

• A trailblazing giant of the Aboriginal land rights movement, Yunipingu passed away in his northeast Arnhem Land home yesterday after a long illness. He was 74 years old.
• the Liberal Party could formalise a position on the Indigenous voice to Parliament tomorrow after a last-minute party room meeting was called to discuss the issue.
• The Northern Territory’s Attorney General and the Territory’s Chief Minister have refused to confirm reports that police commissioner Jamie Chalker has been asked to resign.

and more.

CAAMA Radio News, April 3, 2023
Get in contact with the CAAMA newsroom: news@caama.com.au
CAAMA Radio produces two local news bulletins airing at 12pm and 6pm every weekday. A full bulletin can also be heard online.

In this bulletin:

• Northern Territory Police have told Constable Zachary Rolfe they intend to sack him from the police force.
• The federal Greens have criticised the Albanese government’s new Income Management smartcard, saying it betrays people in income support and reverses Labour’s pledge to abolish the cashless debit card.
• The Northern Territory police force has confirmed Commissioner Jamie Chalker is on leave despite media reports saying he’s been asked to resign by the NT government.

and more.

CAAMA Radio News, March 31, 2023

Get in contact with the CAAMA newsroom: news@caama.com.au
CAAMA Radio produces two local news bulletins airing at 12pm and 6pm every weekday. A full bulletin can also be heard online.

In this bulletin:

• Small liquor shops in the Northern Territory will have the option of selling their alcohol licenses back to the government under the latest measure aimed at tackling alcohol-related harm.
• The first official step towards an indigenous voice to parliament referendum has begun.
• The Wurundjeri community says the company behind a Melbourne event with former US President Barack Obama has apologised to them after they cancelled an elder from giving a welcome to country at the event.

and more.