CAAMA Radio News 20-2-2023

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CAAMA Radio News 20-2-2023

CAAMA Radio News, February 20, 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:
• Members of the Northern Territory’s Country Liberal Party have voted to support the ‘No campaign’ in the upcoming referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, meaning it will become the party’s official position.
• Meanwhile, the Yes campaign for an Indigenous voice to Parliament has kicked off with its first official event held over the weekend.
• Federal Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has taken indigenous community leaders to task at a parliamentary hearing on Friday, suggesting that one NT land council was ignoring its people when making decisions on unconventional mining.

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CAAMA Radio News 17-2-2023

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CAAMA Radio News 17-2-2023

CAAMA Radio News, February 17, 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 NT Country Liberal Party say they’ll abstain from voting in a Labor motion calling for the NT legislative assembly to support an indigenous Voice to Parliament.
• The NT Chief Minister says new alcohol bans in dozens of Aboriginal town camps and remote communities have taken effect from yesterday.
• A dispute about a massive lead and zinc mines environmental security fee deposit has reached the Northern Territory Supreme Court.

and more

People are asking now where is all this funding going- whats happening with all funding that the federal government have been rolling out to help youth in Alice Springs…..Bess Nungarrayi Price.

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People are asking now where is all this funding going- whats happening with all funding that the federal government have been rolling out to help youth in Alice Springs…..Bess Nungarrayi Price.

 A long time critic of the high levels of violence in Central Australian  Aboriginal communities, the killing of Aboriginal women and the abuse and neglect of Aboriginal children has questioned just how Federal Government funding to address these issues is being spent.

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 Bess Nungarrayi Price shares her thoughts about how communities in the centre can best move forward to address the wide ranging issues …

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The question is…where is the money going !

The children, the teenagers, the young adults… those are the group of people that we need to be thinking about when they are on someone else’s country.

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The children, the teenagers, the young adults… those are the group of people that we need to be thinking about when they are on someone else’s country.

Dr. Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis was born under a gum tree in remote Western Australia on land earmarked by government for the Giles Weather Station. The Ngaatjatjarra educator, interpreter and linguist says in 1962 her parents and grandparents were entering a stage of settled existence while still living a semi-nomadic life.

Warakurna  is on the Great Central Road in the Gibson Desert, near the tri-state border between Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

photo courtesy Chris Lewis ABC
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Dr Ellis, who has taught her language in France, talks with CAAMA broadcaster Jenni Hubert about the many Ngaanyatjarra people who are already living in Mpartnwe/ Alice Springs and those that travel here for essential services. She says that they need to be a part of the conversation with agencies in Mpartnwe/ Alice Springs that are helping families.

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Arrente man and creative director of Stickmob Aboriginal Comic Book artist group, talks to CAAMA

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Arrente man and creative director of Stickmob Aboriginal Comic Book artist group, talks to CAAMA

Stick Mob is an indigenous comic book organisation based in Arrernte Country, Mparntwe Alice Springs in Central Australia, having only recently been founded over two year ago, Stick Mob Studios have published three comic books, Mixed Feelings, Exo Dimensions and Storm Warning, with sequels to their books coming around this year.

Creative director of Stick Mob and Arrernte man, Declan Miller, spoke to CAAMA Radio’s Chris Murrkaranyi Fitzpatrick, Mr Miller said that, “There are many comic books out there, but not many Indigenous comic books out there, and we want to help support and help push up, more indigenous graphic novelists and comic book makers.”

CAAMA Radio News 16-02-2023

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CAAMA Radio News, February 16, 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.

  •  A long time critic  of the high levels of violence in Central Australian Aboriginal communities, the killing of Aboriginal women and the abuse and neglect Aboriginal children has questioned just how federal funding  to address these issues is being spent.
  • With  alcohol bans in Aboriginal communities and town camps expected  to come into effect   across the  Northern Territory from Thursday…. Chief Minister Natasha Fyles  says it will  be at least three months before a  communities  can opt out of the restrictions.
  • The First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria has condemned a recent violent attack on former Assembly member Sissy Austin. 
  • and more

CAAMA Radio News 15-02-2023

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CAAMA Radio News, February 15, 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.

  • 18 town camps in Alice Springs, camps in the small towns of Elliott, Pine Creek and Mataranka and Warlpiri Camp in Katherine  will  become dry zones again by the end of the week.
  • A WA politician says state and federal governments have so far failed to deliver housing certainty to Northwest residents affected by ex tropical cyclone Ellie.
  • Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said that he supports a yes vote for a voice to parliament but feels there are also legitimate reasons to vote no.
  • Pamphlets outlining the yes and no campaigns on the referendum on an indigenous voice to Parliament will be translated into as many as 50 different languages.

“On 14 February 1779, English explorer Captain James Cook attempted to kidnap the ruling chief of Hawaii. You could say that Cook was killed while he was trying to commit a crime.” Clare G. Coleman.

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“On 14 February 1779, English explorer Captain James Cook attempted to kidnap the ruling chief of Hawaii. You could say that Cook was killed while he was trying to commit a crime.” Clare G. Coleman.

“There’s a growing sense that we can no longer tolerate the big and small incursions upon our land and our people and our culture and our language and James Cook represents some of the worst of what has happened.” Hawaiian historian Kēhau Abad.

Clare G. Coleman is a Wirlomin-Noongar-Australian writer and poet whose family belong to the south coast of Western Australia. She writes essays, fiction, poetry and art and is living in Naarm (Melbourne).

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Changing the way history is understood isn’t erasing history… its making it. I think my role as a storyteller is to drag the true history of Australia into the light.

CAAMA News 14-2-2023

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CAAMA News 14-2-2023

CAAMA Radio News, February 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:
• The federal government has announced $424 million in closing the gap funding, including an extension of remote housing funding in the Northern Territory.
• Federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton has once again apologised for abstaining the apology to the stolen generations 15 years ago.
• The Northern Territory parliament has debated new legislation which will bring back widespread alcohol bans.

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Aboriginal women paid to learn research

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Aboriginal women paid to learn research

The Aboriginal Biodiversity Conservation (ABC) Foundation is running an 8 week training course for Aboriginal Women in Research and Evaluation in Mparntwe Alice Springs.

The Aboriginal Women’s Research and Evaluation (AWRAE) training program, is 15 hours per week, for 6-8 Aboriginal women and the participants are even being paid for their time.

General Manager at ABC Foundation, Caroline Neeling, says that the course has already had two successful pilot programs in Western Australia and says this is the first time the program has been held in Mparntwe Alice Springs.

The AWRAE Alice Springs program commences at 9.30am on Thursday 16 February 2023.

For those interested, you may find contact details in the poster below.

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