Living Legend of Radio
Everyone in Bamaga knows Amy McKeown. So does everyone across the Northern Peninsula region. In fact most people in the Torres Strait Islands who listen to Black Star Radio, and […]
Category Archives: Interviews
Premier a legend says Jackie Trad on Black Star
Deputising for the premier Anastasia Palaszczuk, Deputy Premier, Indigenous Affairs Minister and State Treasurer Jackie Trad was in Cairns today, following a regional trip to Weipa, Napranum, Mornington Island. Along […]
The extraordinary journey of the Eels
The eel has great significance to the first nations peoples of the south west of Victoria. Dennis Rose is the Gunditjmara Indigenous protected area coordinator. Talking to Black Star Breakfast and Morning […]
IT’S OK TO YARN ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH
Many of us find talking about mental health deeply uncomfortable. But we need to get over our discomfort and start having honest conversations about life’s challenges if we want to […]
Black Star and the Remote Media Festival on The Wire
The Remote Media Festival has been on all this week in the NPA, and the Black Star teams across the Cape and Gulf have been playing a big role hosting […]
Billy’s Got The Ticker
The election for the federal seat of Leichardt is hotting up, with the opposition LNP under pressure to release their policy costings. The endorsed Labor candidate for the seat, Billy […]
Jimmy Cliff Loves Black Star.
Jimmy Cliff is coming to Cairns on the 19th and 20th March, a big treat for his many fans in Far North Queensland. Gilmore Johnson from Black Star spoke to […]
Oswald leaves communities cut off
As Cyclone Oswald leaves communities across the Cape cut off, Russell Gibson, Black Star broadcaster from Hope Vale Radio 107.7fm has been busy interviewing people about the road conditions and damaged […]
Celtic Thunder on Black Star
Listeners on the Black Star Network will have an opportunity to see the world’s top-selling artists – Celtic Thunder – perform in Cairns, North Queensland, on January the 23rd, at the start of […]
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