Co-producer on ABC's Little Yarns podcast, a co-listening podcast series for pre-schoolers. Little Yarns is all about the diverse languages, stories and Countries of Indigenous Australia.
Writer of "Mum Shirl" episode, season eight, for ABC's Fierce Girls podcast. Fierce Girls is a podcast aimed for kids between 7-11 year olds (and the young at heart), telling the stories of bold, adventurous Australian women.
Writer of "Queenie McKenzie" episode , season seven, for ABC's Fierce Girls podcast. Fierce Girls is a podcast aimed for kids between 7-11 year olds (and the young at heart), telling the stories of bold, adventurous Australian women. Queenie McKenzie – the girl who became a living treasure - Fierce Girls - ABC Radio
Working with ABC News Story Lab, as a community consultant, on their huge national project, called Deep Time Australia Project. A project, producing a digital timeline that explores the 65,000+ years of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history; as a way of celebrating the depth of the oldest culture that's still going. As a community consultant, I engaged with traditional owners of various communities across the Northern Territory and the Gulf of Carpentaria about the the stories in their areas. Their voices were the heart of the project.
MCR is the central hub of where radio signal is received and distributed to transmitters across the Northern Territory.
Our responsibilities include delivery of signal to all our listeners, operation of all studios, broadcast equipment and technology in all conditions in the NT; to ensure network continuity and program and quality requirements are met.
I am currently still working in content -land with ABC Local Radio Darwin as well.
Plan and produce daily content for the Territory Afternoons program between 2-4pm.
Producer and presenter Saturday Mornings program to Darwin and Top End audiences between 0830- 1100. This includes the very popular gardening talkback segment.
Producer and presenter of the Saturday and Sunday programs.
Including:
- Afternoons Presenter during October 2016
- Mornings Presenter on ABC Darwin Web Stream during August 2016
- Co-hosted a National NAIDOC special with Territory identity Charlie King at the start of NAIDOC week (July 2016), which included many local Indigenous leaders and personalities, on the theme Songlines.
In conjunction with my role as an Operational Specialist in MCR; over the last few years, I have also been creating content for Local radio and online audiences.
Below are some examples of my past work online:
http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2011/07/06/3262543.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/02/17/3433042.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2012/11/08/3628468.htm
Note: All photographs and written stories produced by me.
A one week intensive radio and online training course
As an ABC Local Radio Indigenous Trainee; I received on the job training with some of the most experienced and talented content makers of the industry
Year 12 NTCE
Short story published in the "Unlimited Futures" anthology of speculative, visionary fiction from a collection of First Nations writers and Black writers, reflecting visionary pasts, hopeful futures and the invisible ties between First Nations people and Black people Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black Fiction - Fremantle Press
Highly commended for two manuscripts; receiving a creative development fees to develop new work.
Shortlisted for the QLD Poetry Festival Awards; in the inaugural Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize, named in tribute to Australia’s earliest published Aboriginal poet, Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Poem titled: Words in the Wind". Both sections of the inaugural competition were judged ‘blind’.
Finalist in the 2020 National Photographic Portrait Prize, for her photograph "Alithia's Tree" Alithia's tree, 2019, National Portrait Gallery
Author of Brother Moon, a children's picture book, published by Magabala Books Magabala Books
Awarded a 2016 Australian Indigenous Creator Scholarship; resulting in a mentorship with a specialised editor, to assist in the development of three additional manuscripts.
The black&write! Kuril Dhagun Indigenous Writing Fellowship - Highly Commended for three children’s picture book manuscripts