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INDIGENOUS GROUPS CALL FOR PARTNERSHIP ON THE CLOSING THE GAP REFRESH
Back row: Melanie Robinson; Esme Bamblett; John Paterson; Pat Turner; Dot West; Antoinette Braybrook.
Front row: Muriel Bamblett, Cheryl Axelby; June Oscar; Donella Mills; Donna Murray, Natalie Lewis
First Nations Media Australia is joining with other peak bodies from around Australia as part of a Coalition of Peaks to push for greater involvement of First Nations organisations in addressing Closing the Gap targets. FNMA Chairperson Dot West joined other Indigenous leaders at Parliament House for 14th February's release of the 2019 Closing the Gap report. The Prime Minister’s statement in the Closing the Gap report referred to the emerging partnership with the Coalition of Peaks. One of the peak bodies, NACCHO, has written an op-ed piece about the partnership arrangement and the upcoming conversations about refreshing the Closing the Gap targets, attached here.
 
FIRST NATIONS MEDIA NEWS
WELCOME NEW BOARD MEMBERS
We are pleased to welcome two new members to our Board of Directors, Vince Coulthard and Naomi Moran.

Vince Coulthard is a proud Adnyamathanha man who grew up in the Flinders Ranges and is the Director at Umeewarra Media. With decades of experience in broadcasting Vince leads the team to ensure that community voices are heard, community issues are raised and community projects and initiative supported. Vince is passionate about Aboriginal culture, land and people. He has made a life-long commitment to protecting and preserving our cultures our languages and striving for better outcomes for Aboriginal people. Vince is the recipient of three NAIDOC awards including the National Lifetime achievement award. He received the Premiers NAIDOC awards, the Federation medal and the Slim Dusty Mateship award. Vince’s leadership ensures that Umeewarra Media is involved in the community at all levels. Vince is a loyal Crows supporter.

Naomi Moran is a Nyangbal, Arakwal and Dunghutti woman from New South Wales, and is the General Manager of Australia’s only independent Indigenous newspaper, the Koori Mail. Her career in Indigenous media spans over 20 years, and includes experience in print, television and radio. At just fourteen years old, in April 1998, Naomi joined the Koori Mail as a trainee office worker, which resulted in a ten-year journey working for the paper in various roles and departments throughout the business including advertising, sales, marketing and editorial. In 2008 she pursued her career goals in Indigenous Media, joining the communications team at NITV, Australia’s only Indigenous TV station, and then went on to explore working in radio with a joint position with both the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association and the National Indigenous Radio Service, in Brisbane. In April 2016, Naomi returned to the Koori Mail, with the Koori Mail Board of Directors appointing her as General Manager. Naomi has a passion for supporting Indigenous youth with employment and career pathways, by developing and delivering in-school programs and mentoring for students throughout the northern NSW region.
 
INDIGIMOB 2019
inDigiMOB partners, Tangentyere Council, PAW Media, and ARDS have already been busy this year running digital activities in NT communities. Take a look at our Facebook page to see some photos of what's been happening. The inDigiMOB team is excited to welcome Anindilyakwa Land Council as a partner. Engagement and digital activities will commence in two Groote Eylandt communities, Angurugu and Umbakuma, very soon and five new Digital Mentors have already been identified to work with inDigiMOB, improve their own digital skills, and help support the digital literacy of members of their communities. New staff have also joined the inDigiMOB team.
Steve Tranter is a sound engineer bringing lots of experience to our inDigiMOB activities. He worked for CAAMA Music for many years and was involved in recording, mixing and producing the music of some iconic Aboriginal bands and musicians.
Milly Hooper has experience working for a number of Aboriginal organisations in a variety of roles. She has great digital photography and computing skills so is well equipped to work with inDigiMOB's Digital Mentors to help build our library of digital literacy resources. Veronica Lynch will also start in the team soon supporting the creation of resources and Aboriginal participation in inDigiMOB digital activities. Veronica has a background in community engagement, most recently as a remote community money management worker.
L-R Elizabeth Napaljarri Katakarinja, Simon Japangardi Fisher, Susan Locke & Daniel Featherstone
NEW FIRST NATIONS MEDIA AUSTRALIA ARCHIVING PROJECT
First Nations Media Australia received Indigenous Languages and Arts Program funding in late 2018 for development of an archive collection management system. The project will be consulting more widely with First Nations media organisations over the coming months. Read more here.

Susan Locke, Simon Japangardi Fisher and Elizabeth Napaljarri Katakarinja recently presented on cultural issues associated with custodianship of First Nations media archives at the International Digital Curation Conference, held at the University of Melbourne. The Conference provided an opportunity to meet with attending First Nations archive managers.

WELCOME ABOARD VIVIENNE DE ROOY
Vivienne is joining First Nations Media Australia on a Jawun secondment for the next five weeks.
Established in 2001, Jawun (which means ‘friend’ in the Kuku Yalanji language of Mossman Gorge) is a not-for-profit organisation which partners with corporate and government agencies to support and build capacity within indigenous organisations and communities around Australia.
Normally a Program Director for IAG in Sydney, Vivienne has come to FNMA through the NPY branch of Jawun and will be working with the Board, members and staff to refresh our strategy and develop a business plan that will help ensure we are able to deliver on the most important priorities.

 

#OURMEDIAMATTERS
 
"Our local Indigenous radio stations inform our community not only in English but local languages, getting important local information and events out to the community. Also the local voices of people help to inspire the next generation of leaders."

Victor Weetra, presenter of Yarnin Country and Nunga Wangga Radio Adelaide
 
THE INDIGITUBE PULSE
HEALING, KNOWING, BEING, DOING
Watch the GAMARADA story on indigiTUBE. First Nations people across Australia are reconnecting to place and purpose in community. This is reducing the risk of harm and producing some incredible outcomes across the healing and community empowerment spaces. An innovative leadership group of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal men, women and youth have met weekly in Redfern since 2007 to collaboratively work toward solutions for challenges including anger, addiction, suicide, family violence, mental health and cultural dispossession. The program empowers community members of all ages to find their spirit, their voice and to revive connection to Aboriginal identity and culture. This important story shares the restoration of values, and roles in community.
GET UP TO SPEED!
WHAT'S NEW ON INDIGITUBE?
  
ZERO-POINT
First Indigenous action-packed comic hero
BRAD ANDERSON
Stories of old life through music
BENNY WALKER
New release
I Don't Blame You
MANGO JAMMIN
Goolarri Media capture the festival
inDigiMOB
Get digital with phone tips and stories
ABORIGINAL TV4
Latest news from the top end
DARMA 87
Home Again plus look out for new EP coming soon
indigiTUBE is for you mob. Get the app via Apple or Google Play. Share our language and culture. Upload your music, radio show or video. Get your own channel and show us your goods!
 
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
 
NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR WILCANNIA RIVER STATION
The Local Community Radio Station
received New Transmitter, Studio Mixer,
Microphones and Cables last week and man did it come with great enthusiasm and appreciation. The staff enjoy installing the equipment wasting no time. They couldn’t wait to test them out.
NG MEDIA HAS WELCOMED THEIR NEW GENERAL MANAGER
Stephen Hall has extensive experience in managing and leading community organisations. Most recently Stephen worked at Shelter WA where he had a leading role in the call for a continued national commitment to fund housing in remote Australia. In a voluntary capacity Stephen has presented specialist programs on community radio for more than a decade. For many years Stephen has also volunteered on a number of committees and boards, such as the National Sorry Day Committee, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) and the WA Deaths in Custody Watch Committee. He blogs about human rights, history, popular culture along with other bits and pieces. Stephen starts on site from the beginning of March.
2019 ICTV VIDEO AWARDS
Entries are now open to submit videos for the 2019 ICTV Video Awards, closing on 28 February. Nominations are open to any videos that have been been submitted to ICTV since the last video awards, held in Yirrkala in 2017 (two years). The Video Awards will be presented as part of the inaugural ICTV Festival of Remote Indigenous Australian Moving Image (previous known as the ICTV Screen Summit) which is taking place in Alice Springs from 13 to 16 May as the final night of the festival. The event will also be broadcast live on ICTV for people who can’t be here in person. Read more here.
 
INDUSTRY NEWS
 
INLANGUAGE WEBSITE LAUNCH
ICTV is extending their video streaming service, ICTV Play to include the inLanguage platform, making it easier to find video content the many Indigenous languages and language groups available on the site. The project will also support 8 language groups to create new video content and digitise old archival footage. The official launch took place on 21 February at the Alice Springs Public Library.
NITV CELEBRATES THE LGBTIQ+ COMMUNITY WITH STELLAR MARDI GRAS PROGRAMMING SLATE
Kicking off NITV’s Mardi Gras programming with a bang is Shade: Queens of NYC, an 11-part, half hour TV docu-series following eight rising drag stars from New York City as they try to make it big in the industry. The series goes beyond the makeup, lip-synching and glamour to show the queens juggling love, commitment, community, heartbreak, family and faith while on the brink of fame.
The Slate premiering on NITV on Sunday 24 February at 7.30pm.
BLACK STAR SWITCHES ON COEN
Local radio service in Cape Yorke town of Coen has turned into Black Star Radio. Queensland remote communities are being in touch with the outside world and other communities pulling out the old radios now listening to Coen which receives 24/7 on the hour news and weather services, their own local information and own program daily. Log, new music updates on a regular basis. For all purposes they are their own local station and have 24 hour network support from Cairns Hub.
OPPORTUNITIES
 
JOIN THE KOORI RADIO TEAM
Koori Radio is on the lookout for more presenters to join their team as new time slots become available. If you’re keen, you can learn all the skills to create your own radio show with their FREE training course. You’ll get experience in presenting on air, producing a radio show and interviewing, plus you have the opportunity to complete a qualification through their partnership with the Community Media Training Organisation (CMTO). If you’re interested, call the Program Manager on 02 9384 4000 or email info@gadigal.org.au
DIVERSITY, DEBATE AND DISRUPTION
Media Diversity Australia, in partnership with cohealth is hosting two workshops on Tuesday 26 & Wednesday 27 February at Melbourne’s Multicultural Hub to get media professionals together for an informal discussion about news, diversity and disruption in the rapidly changing media environment. They want to hear from cultural and linguistically diverse journalists about your personal experiences and how Media Diversity Australia can better support diversity in newsrooms. Complimentary pizza, beer, wine and soft drinks. Register free here.
Apply now, BIITE are offering certificate IV in screen media for 1 year (full time) on their beautiful campus out at Batchelor on Kungarakany Country, an hours drive out of Darwin on the edge of Litchfield National Park. You will have the opportunities to travel to remote communities for special events and projects throughout the year.
The Identity and language survey has been launched to coincide with the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages. The are encouraging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to take part in the survey.
The Queensland Reconciliation Awards recognises initiatives undertaken by businesses, community organisations, educational institutions and government departments going above and beyond their core business to foster reconciliation and pave the way for a better future for residents of Queensland. There is $25,000 in prize money to share around. Nominations are open now and close on 25 February.
 
WHAT'S ON
 
Monash University Museum of Art’s is featuring The Milka Project, a cinema of works from an archive in Yirkala in north-east Arnhem Land. The Mulka Project sits within Yirkala’s Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, and helps to repatriate pieces of Yolngu cultural history, such as artwork, texts, videos and images which have been stored in various Australian and international institutions—bringing this knowledge back to country.
Opened for the public on 9th February
Mulkun Wirrpanda, Milkarri Recording 2013
Come along to PY Media's open studio day, this is a chance to meet the Radio Broadcasters, record a message and learn about how the radio station works. There will be two sessions for students from 10am to 12noon and from 2pm to 4pm.
Wednesday 6th March 9am to 5pm.
 
FUNDING
The Northern Territory Government is offering Vehicle Gifts through its Community Benefit Fund grants to NT based organisations. Second round grants are open now and close on 28 February with funding announcements due at the end of April.
CBF GRANTS OPEN
Content and Development & Operations grants are now open to support projects and programs in 2019-20. Broadcasters should apply for funding support for ongoing programs and content projects through Content grants. Support for equipment and other development projects can be requested through Development & Operations grants.
Deadline for applications: 12 March 2019.

The NAIDOC local grants  provide funding for activities to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait culture during NAIDOC Week (7-14 July).
Funding grants are now open

 
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