The Long Road to Woorabinda
Woorabinda The long Road June in Northern Australia is the best time of the year to travel long distances, and as people in the south rubbed the sleep from their […]
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Continued Health Campaign Support
QRAM has received an extension to the “Our Community Our Future Campaign” from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. The campaign will run for a further 12 months and […]
Position Available – Breakfast Announcer
Black Star is looking for a breakfast announcer/all rounder to join the most dynamic team in Indigenous radio. This position based in Cairns Queensland and the program will be broadcast […]
CAAMA Come For A Look At Blackstar
The legendary CAAMA Radio came and visited QRAM/Black Star, to see for themselves the innovative approach taken by QRAM to provide a modern radio broadcasting service to the remote Queensland services. CAAMA […]
Marngrook Team Visits Black Star
Marngrook footy show anchor Grant Hansen and one of the shows reporters Leila Gurruwiwi, dropped into QRAM and Black Star on their way to an event in Nhulunbuy. Leila was born in […]
Yarrabah Switches On To Black Star
With a flick of the switch, the transmitter booted up, the computer screen came to life, and the Yarrabah radio service began blasting out a great rock track, “Sweet Home […]
Sticks Inspires Us All
The star of the QRAM TAFE broadcast training course is Sticks from Pormpuraaw Radio. I asked Sticks how he got his name. ‘In Aboriginal culture” he said, “when a relative […]
Black Star Radio is coming to Normanton
All the hard work to establish a radio station has finally paid off for the Aboriginal community of Normanton. Funding has been approved by ATSI Affairs Queensland to build a […]
Broadcasters Earn Their Stripes
TNQ TAFE remote media training is again underway at QRAM training centre in Cairns. Students from over remote Queensland have completed their second one week block training session. The training […]
Zane weakens
The cyclone warning for Mapoon to Coen has been cancelled Zane is now a rain depression The forecast path shown above is the Bureau’s best estimate of the cyclone’s future […]
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