Malarndirri McCarthy
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Senator Malarndirri McCarthy |
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| Senator for the Northern Territory | |
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Assumed office 2 July 2016 |
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| Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly for Arnhem |
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In office 18 June 2005 – 24 August 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Jack Ah Kit |
| Succeeded by | Larisa Lee |
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| Born | 1970 (age 46–47) 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.
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.
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