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Triple A Murri Country, 98.9FM

A not-for-profit, community-controlled multimedia organisation in West End, owned by the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association. It went to air on 6 April 1993 as the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander radio station in an Australian capital city, and is now one of the largest Indigenous community-controlled media organisations in the country.

Alongside country and Indigenous music it carries news, and conversations with Elders, artists and community leaders. Its current affairs program Let’s Talk is hosted by Indigenous journalists, academics, activists and Elders, and is the only national Indigenous current affairs program researched, produced and broadcast in Brisbane. Episodes are available as a podcast if the broadcast hour does not suit.

First Nations Telegraph

Australia’s first free online national First Nations newspaper, founded and run by Rhonda and Stephen Hagan, an Aboriginal family from Toowoomba. It publishes daily: news, editorials, opinion, features, community stories and sport. Being Queensland based, it picks up state and regional stories that the national outlets often pass over.

The wider Queensland radio network

Beyond Brisbane, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community radio covers much of the state. Bidjara Media broadcasts to Charleville and Cunnamulla. MOB FM is run by the Mt Isa Aboriginal Media Association. QRAM’s Black Star network reaches communities including Woorabinda, Hope Vale, Doomadgee, Napranum, Kowanyama, Lockhart River, Mornington Island and Aurukun.

Most are linked by the National Indigenous Radio Service, a satellite network of more than one hundred and twenty community stations across the country. First Nations Media Australia keeps the directory of who broadcasts where.

Koori Mail

Established in May 1991 and wholly owned by five Bundjalung Aboriginal community organisations on the north coast of New South Wales: the Bundjalung Tribal Society at Lismore, Bunjum Co-operative at Cabbage Tree Island, Buyinbin Co-operative at Casino, Kurrachee Co-operative at Coraki and Nungera Co-operative at Maclean. Every cent of profit returns to those organisations as dividends, or goes to sponsorship of Indigenous community events.

Published fortnightly in print and online, with a network of correspondents nationwide. The full back archive, from the first issue in 1991, is free and searchable through AIATSIS.

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IndigenousX

A wholly Indigenous owned and operated media, consultancy and training organisation, founded in 2012 by Gamilaroi man Luke Pearson. It publishes analysis, commentary and public interest journalism, and is built around the principle of self-determination: rather than one editorial voice, it platforms a wide range of First Nations writers and hosts. Some of its work is co-published with Guardian Australia.

National Indigenous Times

Founded as a fortnightly newspaper in February 2002 by Owen Carriage, who also founded the Koori Mail. It went weekly in 2011, entered administration in 2015, and was relaunched as an online masthead in February 2016 under new ownership. It is staffed and owned by both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, with predominantly Aboriginal writers and columnists, and leans towards politics, business and justice reporting. It now publishes a monthly newspaper alongside daily online stories.

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• Scholarship launched to bolster pathways for First Nations AFL coaches
• Overcrowded housing linked to Northern Territory diphtheria outbreak, researchers...
• SA Police: Aboriginal death in police custody to be treated with 'utmost importan...
• Drua excited for Mooar given new coach's high hopes

NITV, National Indigenous Television

Relaunched by SBS as a free-to-air channel in December 2012, NITV describes itself as made by, for and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. NITV News runs six days a week, presented by Natalie Ahmat with a team of Indigenous journalists around the country, and is available on television, online and on demand.

Two current affairs programs are worth knowing by name. Living Black, hosted by Walkley Award-winning Western Arrernte woman Karla Grant, reached twenty-three years on air in 2026 and is the longest-running Indigenous current affairs program in the country. The Point is hosted by Wuthathi and Meriam man John Paul Janke, who is also National Indigenous Affairs Editor at SBS and NITV.

ABC Indigenous

The national broadcaster carries Indigenous affairs reporting across news, radio and its online coverage, including regional bureaus that reach communities the commercial media rarely visits. Useful alongside the community-owned outlets rather than instead of them, particularly for breaking national stories.

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• From eggs to seafood to spices and spirits, testing reveals truth behind labels
• Snowy 2.0 worker ordered to use broken drill that hit him, court hears
• Child rapist jailed over 'persistent attempts' to groom and abuse 12yo boy
• Max King's season is over after first AFL game in two years

Guardian Australia, Indigenous affairs

Guardian Australia runs a standing Indigenous affairs desk rather than covering the round only when a crisis makes it unavoidable, and co-publishes work with IndigenousX. Free to read, though it asks for voluntary support.

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• Family of Indigenous man who died in custody launch legal action over decision not to charge police
• Connected under the Milky Way: new exhibition shares Indigenous astronomical knowledge from Australia to So...
• Bennelong in London review – Indigenous warrior meets the actor playing him in this funny, clever play
• Historic $350m NSW funding boost helps launch new Aboriginal family program to help children ‘tell their ow...