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  • Hurley offers ’sympathy’ to Doomadgee family - The policeman acquitted of a 2004 death-in-custody on Palm Island in north Queensland has, for the first time, offered his sympathy to the victim’s family. Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley has been giving evidence at the latest inquest into the death of Cameron Doomadgee. The 36-year-old Palm Island man died from internal injuries suffered during his arrest for [...]
  • I fell next to Doomadgee: Hurley - THE policeman who arrested Aboriginal cell death victim Mulrunji Doomadgee yesterday told a coronial inquiry he could not explain how the Palm Islander suffered his fatal injuries. Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley told Coroner Brian Hine that he had a “tussle” with Doomadgee at the north Queensland island’s lockup on November 19, 2004. Sergeant Hurley insisted that [...]
  • Indigenous victims over-represented in NT crime - New data shows Indigenous people in the Northern Territory are far more likely to be the victims of assault and murder than any other section of the population. Indigenous people make up nearly one-third of the Territory’s population, and figures from the Bureau of Statistics show that in 2008 Indigenous people were victims in 59 per [...]
  • Jail accused of neglecting Indigenous inmates - Racial tensions are running high in Queensland after the death in custody of an Aboriginal man. Sheldon Currie, an 18-year-old remand prisoner, died last month and this week there have been claims he was denied adequate medical attention at a privately run Brisbane jail. But Queensland’s Corrective Services says there was medical intervention: that he was fully [...]
  • Parents ’stopping kids going to school’ at Wadeye - IT’S 9.30am in the remote indigenous community of Wadeye. The school bus has been and gone. Shane Raymond’s two daughters should have been on it. Instead they mill about on the veranda as a local dog exterminator drops in. Wadeye, Australia’s largest Aboriginal township, is in the grip of a school attendance crisis, with many [...]

    • The Yabu Band Visit CAAMA Studio

    Since beginning at the age of five, multi-talented brothers, Delson and Boyd Stokes, known today as ‘The Yabu Band’, have created a powerful, unique sound aptly described as Desert Rock/Reggae. The brothers are originally from Kalgoorlie, the Goldfields town bordered by the Western Desert from where they draw their heritage, culture and inspiration. ‘Yabu’ means Rock/Gold in their language, Wongatha.

    Yabu is more than just an Indigenous band; they provide a message through song, a vehicle of inspiration that has inspired children through to adults to achieve all that they can. They believe there is nothing more important than encouraging today’s youth to have self-worth and chase one’s dreams.

    Listen to Yabu Live on Big Brekky..

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    in CAAMA Programs Radio on March 4 2010.

    CAAMA Radio Morning News 3/03/2010

    CAAMA Radio News Team: Paul Wiles, Minugka McInerney , Steve Gumerungi Hodder.

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    • Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam will visit the Proposed Site of the Commonwealth Radioactive waste dump.
    • A Job scheme which aims to employ up to 50 thousand of Australia’s most disadvantage people… is reaching its half way mark

    in CAAMA News Radio on March 3 2010.

    CAAMA News 3rd of March 2010

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    in CAAMA CAAMA Radio Online News Radio on March 2 2010.

    CAAMA Radio 1st March 2010

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    CAAMA Radio: Paul Wiles, Steven Gumerungi Hodder, Celestine Rowe and Marissa Wollogorang

    • Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard expected to defend a new national education currilculum today with widespread criticism that it contains too much focus on Aboriginal identity and history.
    • Liberals want to scrap the key welfare unit which supports the disadvantaged, mentally-ill, homeless and Aboriginal young offenders.
    • The Aboriginal flag was raised in Shoalhaven City Council’s chambers for the first time at a ceremony.
    • Sports.

    in CAAMA CAAMA Radio Online News News Radio on March 1 2010.

    CAAMA Radio news 26th February 2010

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    CAAMA Radio news team: Steve Gumerungi Hodder, Celestine Rowe and Minungka McInerney.

    • Australia reportedly having a bad repuation as a racist country.
    • U.N. says the Australian Government needs to consult with Aboriginal communities.
    • A Federal Government is helping to reinstate CDEP in an Aboriginal community.
    • Sports.

    in CAAMA CAAMA Radio Online News News Radio on February 26 2010.

    CAAMA Radio Morning News 25/02/2010

    CAAMA Radio News Team: Paul wiles,  Steve Gumerungi Hodder, Celestine Rowe, Minugka McInereney.

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    • Australia will face the UN Human Rights Commision in Geneva in September accused of racilally discriminating against indigenous communties.
    • A leadin Australian environmental group says the Rudd Labor government is pursuing the same divisive and secretive approach to nuclear waste storage as the Former Liberal Governemnt.
    • Leaders on the Remote APY Lands in the North- West of South Australia say the SA Government has commited to funding renal dialysis services on the lands.

    in CAAMA News Radio on February 25 2010.

    CAAMA Radio 24th February 2010

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    CAAMA Radio: Steve Gumerungi Hodder, Celestine Rowe, Minungka McInerney and Paul Wiles.

    • Nuclear waste coming to the Northern Territory.
    • A Central Australian Shire will not accept a N.T. Government contract to carry out ongoing housing maintenance because of a gag clause.
    • An Aboriginal community in despair due to the scrapping of CDEP.
    • Sports.   

    in CAAMA News Radio on February 24 2010.

    CAAMA Radio Morning News 23/02/2010

    CAAMA Radio News Team: Paul Wiles, Steve Gumerungi Hodder, Celestine Rowe, Minugka McInerney.

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    • Federal minister for indigenous affairs has inspected building work in an alice springs town camp.
    • Northen Territory Council of social services says there is an absolute housing crisis in the Northern Territory and vunerable territorians are being turned away.
    • The Territory’s Tourism Minist is urging Aboriginal Territorians to get more involved in the industry.

    in CAAMA News Radio on February 23 2010.

    CAAMA Radio 22 February 2010

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    CAAMA Radio: Paul Wiles

    • Town camp revamp funding under fire.
    • A Central Australian Aboriginal human rights says Aboriginal people have the right to determine their own lives.
    • A new visting accommodation centre for Aboriginal is welcomed by Tangentyere Council.
    • Sports.

    in CAAMA Radio on February 22 2010.

    CAAMA Radio 19th February 2010

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    CAAMA Radio News Team: Paul wiles, Steve Gumerungi Hodder, Minugka Mcinerney, Celestine Rowe

    • Nuclear in N.T.
    • Child protection needed in Aboriginal communities
    • Aboriginal music legend Ruby Hunter dies
    • Sports

    in CAAMA Radio on February 19 2010.

    CAAMA Radio 18-02-10

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    in CAAMA News Radio on February 18 2010.

    CAAMA Radio Morning News 17-02-2010

    CAAMA Radio News Team: Paul wiles, Steve Gumerungi Hodder, Minugka Mcinerney, Celestine Rowe

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    • “If u say sorry than mean it..” Jeff Mc Mullin to PM Kevin Rudd.
    • Central Australian Aboriginal Leaders say that their people are being made to work for monsy to be put on their basic cards.
    • Aboriginal Rights Campainger says racism generated by the NT Intervention is causing much of the anti social behaviour in Alice Springs.

    in CAAMA News Radio on February 17 2010.

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