Turtle Island Pearls
At the mouth of the Escape River near Turtle head Island on the east coast of the Northern Peninsula, lives a pearling family, farming South Sea Pearls. The location is […]
Jute Theatre Dare to Dream
Jute Theatre Company have began a 10 communities tour with their production “Dare to Dream”. The team will cover thousands of kilometres to the communities and towns of Bamaga, Lockhart […]
Black Star covers CIAF and NAIDOC in Cooktown and Atherton
It was a big week for Black Star. We were on the road taking the station to the people, beginning at Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) for 3 days, then […]
$190 million stolen wages settlement
Its hard to imagine working for 10 years on a remote cattle station in the harshest conditions heat, rain, dust, sleeping in a swag, eating out back under a tree, […]
Atherton’s Got Talent
Atherton NAIDOC will launch the career of a Aziah Davis a young indigenous artist from the Atherton Tablelands. Aziah is a singer songwriter and was interviewed by Greg Reid on […]
Janina Harding Talks UP Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Its that time of the year again, when indigenous artists from across Queensland and people from all over the world converge on Cairns for the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. CIAF […]
Kapani Warriors fight it out in Aurukun
These guys are tough and they mean business, according to their mentor Dr Timothy White, they are not gammin game show participants all buffed up, they are the real deal. […]
Cultural Warrior Gives Greg Reid a language lesson
Harold Ludwick is from the Guugu Yimithirr nation, stretching from the Annan River, south of Cooktown, to Princess Charlotte Bay in the north. Thirty-two clan groups make up the Guugu […]
Greg talks to living Legend Beth Gott Ethnobotinist
Morning focus presenter interviewed well know ethnobotanist Dr Beth Gott who graduated in Botany from Melbourne University, later studying the life-cycle of Rye cereals at London University. On her return […]
Anaemia cause for concern throughout the Cape
Eat more natural bush tuckka, could be the recipe to avoid anaemia. Greg Reid, interviewing Kani Thomson and Dymema Lenard from Apunipima Health Council spoke about Anaemia and the causes, […]
