Countdown to Yarrabah Radio Service
After many years of lobbying a Community TCBL license has been approved for the community of Yarrabah by ACMA, the Australian Communications Media Authority. The service is due to start broadcasting from […]
Tag Archives: Jim Remedio
Senator Jan McLucas drops in to QRAM
Jan McLucas, Labour Senator for North Queensland, dropped in for a visit and to have a look around QRAM and the Black Star network. The Senator had many questions about […]
Latest video: Lockhart River & Portland Roads
QRAM Manager Jim Remedio and Technical Consultant Gerry Pyne were multi-tasking on their October maintenance trip to Lockhart River. They not only connected the station into the Black Star network (see story here), […]
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 […]
Visit Kowanyama by video
Our latest video gives you a look around the community and radio station at Kowanyama, the ‘place of many rivers’, located on the western side of Cape York, facing into […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yarrabah memories
I was just a young apprentice last time I went to Yarrabah. It was the late 1950’s, early 60’s, and we took the boat round the Cape from Cairns. I […]
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