NPA gets back up transmitter
QRAM is committed to providing 24 hour services to all of our communities. This is especially important during the wet season in Northern Australia. During the wet, lightning strike and […]
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Spotlight On QRAM Black Star
QRAM and BlackStar are under the Spotlight during December, on the website of the Office of the Registrar Of Indigenous Corporations and also in their monthly magazine the ORIC Oracle. For the […]
Eclipse in Cairns
They came in their thousands like pilgrims to the promised land; riding in buses and 4 wheel drives to converge on the land of the Kuku Yalanji people, who two […]
Black Star Remembers
Remembrance Day (11 November) marks the anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War (1914–18). Each year Australians observe one minute silence at 11 am on 11 November, […]
Normanton and Burketown keen for Black Star
Visitors to QRAM this week were on a mission to have the Black Star radio service extended into Normanton and Burketown. Francine George from Karumba and Susan Sewter from Mornington […]
AFTRS Training at Pormpuraaw
QRAM partnered with AFTRS: the Australian Film Television and Radio School, to deliver radio training in Pormpuraaw recently. Gilmore Johnston from QRAM and Carly Wallace, and Martin Corban from AFTRS delivered the […]
What’s this Black Jocks?
Black Jocks is a monthly Indigenous radio almanac produced in Cairns by QRAM. The journal is an aide for broadcasters and provides a daily insight into Australia’s past history of […]
Lockhart River Joins Black Star Network
Lockhart River in Cape York in now the 10th Indigenous radio station to join the Black Star radio network. The Indigenous owned and operated remote Queensland network of stations can […]
Remote Bush Mob Meet For Annual Festival
The annual IRCA Remote Media Festival is a place for bush media to get together and have fun. It’s a place of sharing culture from their own place and also […]
Napranum No 8 on Black Star
Napranum is a combination of two Aboriginal languages meaning “meeting place of the people”. The history of Napranum is consistent with the dispossession of Aboriginal peoples across the country where […]
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