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 and our full bulletin can be heard online.
In today’s bulletin: • Traditional Owners in the Northern Territory have rejected proposals to continue mining at the Ranger Uranium mine in Kakadu National Park. • Football Australia has issued a notice to Sydney United 58 Football Club to explain the behaviour of fans at Sunday’s Australia Cup final. • The Northern Territory chief minister says the government is doing its best to ensure Alice Springs is resourced to handle an escalation in alcohol-fueled crimes in the wake of the stronger futures legislation ending.
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 and our full bulletin can be heard online.
In today’s bulletin: • Australia’s chief medical officer says the time is right to end mandatory COVID isolation. • A bushwalker has discovered human skeletal remains while hiking along Darwin’s outskirts this past week. • Leading figures from Aboriginal communities and criminal justice experts will look at ways to reduce indigenous incarceration rates in South Australia.
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 and our full bulletin can be heard online.
In today’s bulletin: • The NT Labor Senator Malarndirri McCarthy says the federal government will be consulting with communities to understand what further steps it needs to take over income management and whether changes to the Basics Card are required. • A former resident of a notorious home for Stolen Generations children has successfully sued the federal government and a religious group for sexual abuse he suffered in their care. • The Federal Albanese Government have introduced new reforms to help get more First Nations kids into early education.
US rapper Coolio was found dead in the bathroom of a friend’s home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The cause of his death is still unclear but Coolio was just 59 years old.
Coolio — whose real name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr — was among hip hop’s biggest names of the 1990s.
His song Gangsta’s Paradise went to number one in at least 19 countries and believed to be the biggest-selling single of 1995 worldwide. It stayed at number one in Australia for 13 weeks.
Born in Monessen, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh, Coolio moved to Compton, California, where he went to community college.
He worked as a volunteer firefighter and in airport security before devoting himself full-time to the hip hop scene.
Coolio and jazz saxophonist Jarez were enlisted in July 2008 as spokespersons by the group Environmental Justice and Climate Change to educate students at historically black colleges and universities about global warming.
Coolio who was taken to hospital with asthma several times as a child was also a spokesperson for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.
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 and our full bulletin can be heard online.
In today’s bulletin: • Body-worn camera footage of constable Zachary Rolfe’s movements in the lead-up to the shooting of Kumunjayi Walker has been played to the coroner’s court. • The Royal Commission into the Robodebt scheme has begun in Brisbane. and will investigate a Centrelink debt recovery system that saw 443,000 welfare recipients wrongly charged with a total of 1.76 Billion dollars due to invalid averaged income data. • The Federal Albanese Government have introduced new reforms to help get more First Nations kids into early education.
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 and our full bulletin can be heard online.
In today’s bulletin: • An NT Assistant police commissioner has told the Northern Territory coroner he heard police officers use racist language that he believes could lead to police dehumanising indigenous people. • The Federal Albanese government has promised to work closely with Torres Strait Islanders regarding a ruling from the United Nations that says they neglected and violated human rights by not acting on erosion issues affected by climate change in the region. • Some users of the cashless debit card are voicing their apprehension ahead of the federal government’s plan to abolish it.
There has been a mixture of reactions across First Nations communities in Australia following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Britain’s longest reigning monarch recently passed away peacefully in Scotland at the age of 96.
As a symbol of colonisation, the Queen was seen by some as a divisive figure to First Nations people in this country and overseas. While some Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities have remembered her with fondness, others look to a different future.
Pat Miller caamapwphoto 2022
Pat Miller was born in Alice Springs in 1947, into a family that has long associations with Central Australia. Her father, Milton Liddle, was the son of Bill Liddle, a pioneer bushman of Scottish descent. Milton’s mother, Mary, was an Arrernte woman. Pat’s mother, Polly, was an Alyawarra woman from the country around Hatches Creek and Kurrundi station, north east of Alice Springs. Pat has always been proud of her mixed descent and she has drawn strength and inspiration from the full diversity of her personal heritage. In 2002 Dr Miller was appointed as Deputy of the Administrator of the Northern Territory .
Morris Stuart was born in the former British colony Guiana on the northern coast of south America before moving to the UK. He has also lived in New Zealand but after nearly 40 years in Melbourne he now calls Australia home.
Morris is the founder and director of the Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir whose journey was featured in a 2017 documentary, The Song Keepers, as well as on Australian Story on ABC Television.
He was awarded the AM (Member of the Order of Australia) for significant service to the Indigenous community and to choral music.
Michael Mansell image courtesy Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre
Veteran Tasmanian human rights campaigner Michael Mansell is an Aboriginal leader who has worked for social, political and legal changes to improve the lives and social standing of his people, the Palawa.
In 1977 Mansell met with the Queen during her Silver Jubilee tour of Australia where he presented her with a petition for Aboriginal land rights and box of beads and trinkets in exchange for the return of their land.
Michael is a qualified barrister and solicitor of the Supreme court of Tasmania and the High court of Australia.
Legendary storyteller and voice for the Stolen Generations, Uncle Jack Charles, spent decades in and out of prison due to drug addiction and the trauma that he experienced as a child.
During his long running production Jack Charles v The Crown, the stage and screen actor was well known for calling on the crown to take responsibility for the years of abuse and oppression he had experienced throughout his life.
Uncle Jack founded one of Australia’s first indigenous theatre groups in Melbourne in 1971 and went on to become known as the “grandfather” of Aboriginal theatre.
Uncle Jack, who died this month, had previously shared his thoughts about the monarchy with CAAMA .
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 and our full bulletin can be heard online.
In today’s bulletin: • The Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney has spoken in Parliament during condolence motions for the late Queen Elizabeth the Second, highlighting the relationship between First Nations Australians and the monarchy. • There is both apprehension and relief among welfare recipients in remote Australia who are preparing to go off the cashless debit card. • A United Nations committee has found Australia violated the rights of Torres Strait Islanders by failing to protect them from climate change.
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 and our full bulletin can be heard online.
In today’s bulletin: • Protests have been held across the country, demanding the monarchy be abolished on the national day of mourning for the Queen. • Governor General David Hurley has acknowledged that the Queen’s passing has prompted different responses from some First Nations people. • A ceremony has been held on ANZAC Hill, honouring the First Nations people who served in battles overseas and on-country.
The origins of First Peoples Disability Network Australia (FPDN) can be traced back to a national gathering in Alice Springs in 1999. At this gathering, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability united under a shared purpose for the first time to highlight the social inequity faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and advocate for change.
June Riemer, image supplied.
Gumbaynggirr Dunghutti woman June Riemer is the Deputy CEO of First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN). She’s worked in the sector for over 40 years, leading and inspiring her team as they navigate the changes in the national disability sector.
June has led multiple national conferences and training workshops. Her goal is to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people don’t get left behind and have culturally appropriate access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
She’s also an adviser to multiple boards and reference groups where she ensures the rights and culture of her people are represented, respected and protected. June has been a representative at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva.
An accomplished speaker, June is respected for telling it like it is. She shares real insights based on her extensive work and travel within Australia’s Aboriginal communities, particularly in rural and remote areas.
June Reimer is talking with CAAMA broadcaster Jenni Hubert.
