Indigenous Media

Fri 20th February 09 | 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Feel tent

hosted by | Reconciliation Victoria
Representatives from National Indigenous Television, National Indigenous Times, 3KND, The Koori Mail and Ms Jirra Harvey join for a presentation on sustaining Aboriginal Culture in the 21st Century.

Jirra Lulla Harvey (Yorta Yorta / Wiradjuri) is an advocate for Indigenous self-representation in the media and the arts. She was a National Scholar at the University of Melbourne, where she completed her Media and Communications Degree, has been the Victorian Correspondent for The Koori Mail, the Media and Communications Consultant for the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference: Education 2008 and has curated a number of contemporary Koori art exhibitions.

Angela Bates has 9 years experience in Indigenous media.  She began her journalism career at CAAMA radio, completing a cadetship before producing and presenting the Station's law program. Angela also
contributed to the CAMA's weekly news and current affairs program before moving to Koori Radio to produce and present the "Black Chat" program.
Angela travelled solo for several years breaking new ground as one of the country's first, current affairs' video journalists. With a small digital camera she filmed and reported stories in Aboriginal communities across Australia for SBS TV's Indigenous News and Current Affairs program, "Living Black".