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McCarthy is a former [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] newsreader and journalist who began her cadetship in 1989 and worked across Australia as a news and current affairs television and radio reporter. In 1993, after a trial run at presenting the late news from Sydney, McCarthy became the weeknight newsreader for ABC News in Darwin. |
McCarthy is a former [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] newsreader and journalist who began her cadetship in 1989 and worked across Australia as a news and current affairs television and radio reporter. In 1993, after a trial run at presenting the late news from Sydney, McCarthy became the weeknight newsreader for ABC News in Darwin. |
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McCarthy co-established Borroloola's first community radio station, B102.9FM The Voice of the Gulf in 1998 with assistance from the ABC, and also set up the Lijakarda Cultural Festivals & Media, Arts & Training Centre for Yanyuwa, Kudanji, Garrawa & Mara people from Borroloola.<ref>http://www.nt.alp.org.au/people/nt/mccarthy_malarndirri.php |
McCarthy co-established Borroloola's first community radio station, B102.9FM The Voice of the Gulf in 1998 with assistance from the ABC, and also set up the Lijakarda Cultural Festivals & Media, Arts & Training Centre for Yanyuwa, Kudanji, Garrawa & Mara people from Borroloola.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nt.alp.org.au/people/nt/mccarthy_malarndirri.php |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-12-28 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907210512/http://www.nt.alp.org.au/people/nt/mccarthy_malarndirri.php |archivedate=7 September 2008 |df= }}</ref> |
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McCarthy has two adult sons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://territorylabor.com.au/Our-Team/Federal/Malarndirri-McCarthy |title = Malarndirri McCarthy, Senator for Northern Territory |access-date = 13 August 2016 |publisher=Territory Labor}}</ref> |
McCarthy has two adult sons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://territorylabor.com.au/Our-Team/Federal/Malarndirri-McCarthy |title = Malarndirri McCarthy, Senator for Northern Territory |access-date = 13 August 2016 |publisher=Territory Labor}}</ref> |
Revision as of 01:58, 31 May 2017
Malarndirri McCarthy | |
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Senator for the Northern Territory | |
Assumed office 2 July 2016 | |
Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly for Arnhem | |
In office 18 June 2005 – 24 August 2012 | |
Preceded by | Jack Ah Kit |
Succeeded by | Larisa Lee |
Personal details | |
Born | 1970 (age 53–54) Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia |
Political party | Australian Labor Party |
Occupation | Politician |
Malarndirri Barbara Anne McCarthy (born 1970), an Australian politician and journalist, is a Yanyuwa woman from Borroloola in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory. As a Labor politician, McCarthy represented Arnhem in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly between 2005 and 2012. In 2016, she was elected to the Australian Senate. A presenter with SBS/NITV News based in Sydney, McCarthy won the Multicultural and Indigenous Media Awards 2014 Journalist of the Year and in 2013 won the inaugural Deadly Award for Journalism of the Year.
Background and early years
Born in Katherine in 1970, McCarthy attended school in Borroloola, Alice Springs and St Scholastica's College in Glebe, Sydney, where she was school captain in 1988.
McCarthy is a former Australian Broadcasting Corporation newsreader and journalist who began her cadetship in 1989 and worked across Australia as a news and current affairs television and radio reporter. In 1993, after a trial run at presenting the late news from Sydney, McCarthy became the weeknight newsreader for ABC News in Darwin.
McCarthy co-established Borroloola's first community radio station, B102.9FM The Voice of the Gulf in 1998 with assistance from the ABC, and also set up the Lijakarda Cultural Festivals & Media, Arts & Training Centre for Yanyuwa, Kudanji, Garrawa & Mara people from Borroloola.[1]
McCarthy has two adult sons.[2]
Career
Early political career
Malarndirri McCarthy, then known as Barbara McCarthy, became the Member for Arnhem in 2005 when she was preselected to replace the retiring member Jack Ah Kit. Considered by many[who?] political pundits as a star recruit for Chief Minister Clare Martin and the Australian Labor Party, she received 73.9% of the two-party preferred vote, a 12.5% increase on Ah Kit's result.[3] As a result of her election McCarthy became one of ten women in the 25 seat assembly, considered at the time to be in the top 10 in the world in male to female ratio in a parliament.[4] McCarthy was also as one of five indigenous candidates elected, properly reflecting the population ratio of indigenous people in the Territory.
Her first term was highlighted by crossing the floor, with two other ALP members, to vote against the government's decision to divert the McArthur River to allow more mining developments, on spiritually cultural and environmental grounds, in her home country of Borroloola.[5]
In August 2007 on the sudden death of her mother, who had been a strong advocate for the Borroloola people's struggle for land rights, language and culture and who despaired at the river diversion, Barbara McCarthy added her Yanyuwa name of Malarndirri, out of cultural respect for her mother. She was re-elected unopposed in the 2008 election.
Immediately following the election McCarthy was promoted to the ministry and from August 2008- November 2009 was the Minister for Children and Families, Child Protection, Statehood, Women's Policy, Senior Territorians, Young Territorians and the Minister Assisting the Chief Minister on Multicultural Affairs.[6]
In December 2009 a Cabinet re-shuffle took place as a result of a Labor Cabinet Minister leaving the NT Labor Government and was not replaced in the Cabinet.
McCarthy's portfolios then doubled and she was tasked to implement major reforms in the areas of Local Government, Regional Economic Development & Indigenous Development, while keeping the Women's & Statehood portfolio, Tourism was also added to her brief.
At the 2012 election McCarthy was defeated by Country Liberal Party challenger Larissa Lee amid Labor's collapse in the remote portions of the Territory.
Interim years
McCarthy won the 2013 Journalism Story of the Year Deadly Award for her story on two Perth Noongar brothers, the Thorne Brothers who were in Saudi Arabia. Shayden Thorne had been arrested on terrorism charges in Riyadh, while his brother Junaid was in hiding after protesting his brother's innocence. Both Shayden and Junaid returned to their families in Perth.[7][8][self-published source?]
McCarthy also was a member of the NITV team's Walkleys nomination in 2014 for the Innocence Betrayed documentary based on the Bowraville murders ongoing investigation. In 2013 she received two Walkley nominations for her story on Mercedes-Benz that filmed its advertisement on Wave Rock in Western Australia, a place of deep cultural significance to Aboriginal custodians. The General Manager of Mercedes-Benz flew to Wave Rock to personally apologise to custodians.[9][self-published source?]
McCarthy was a journalist and presenter at SBS/NITV News and presented NITV News Week in Review on SBS1 2.30pm on Fridays and on NITV on the weekend. In addition she worked part-time at St Ignatius College, Sydney and assisted the development of the First Nations' Unit program and taught a cross cultural program at the Catholic school.
Federal politics
Following the resignation of Nova Peris, McCarthy was invited by Labor to nominate as a candidate for the Senate at the 2016 federal election, representing the Northern Territory.[10] She was subsequently endorsed as the Labor candidate despite not being enrolled to vote in the Northern Territory.[11]
McCarthy went on to win a Senate seat at the 2 July federal election bringing a much higher primary vote and a swing of near 7-percent to the Australian Labor Party.
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
{{cite web}}
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suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Malarndirri McCarthy, Senator for Northern Territory". Territory Labor. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
- ^ "2005 Northern Territory Election. Electorate Results. Election Results. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)". Retrieved 24 January 2017.
- ^ Hinde, S. (22 June 2005). "Women hit top 10". Northern Territory News. p. 5.
- ^ http://bulletin.syd.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=326792print=true
- ^ http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/08/18/5302_ntnews.html
- ^ "ABC, NITV win at Deadly Awards". TV Tonight. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ McCarthy, Malarndirri (8 March 2013). "NITV News interview mother of Shayden Jamil Thorne" (streaming video). NITV News. SBS News. Retrieved 18 March 2015.[self-published source?]
- ^ McCarthy, Malarndirri. "Mercedes-Benz apologises over Wave Rock video". NITV News. SBS News. Retrieved 18 March 2015.[self-published source?]
- ^ "Malarndirri McCarthy puts hat in the ring for Nova Peris Senate seat". ABC News. Australia. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ "Election 2016: Peris replacement Malarndirri McCarthy not enrolled to vote in NT". ABC News. Australia. 1 June 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- 1970 births
- Living people
- Indigenous Australian politicians
- Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia
- Women members of the Australian Senate
- Members of the Australian Senate
- Members of the Australian Senate for the Northern Territory
- Australian Labor Party members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
- Members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
- Australian television journalists
- ABC News (Australia) presenters
- People from the Northern Territory
- Australian women in politics
- ABC journalists associated with the Australian Labor Party
- 21st-century Australian politicians
- 21st-century women politicians