Book launch of "The Power of Indigenous Media: Black Witness" with Dr Debbie Duthie [In Conversation series]

In this Indigenous Conversations event, co-hosted Carumba Institute in collaboration with Library and the Faculty of Health - Associate Professor Debbie Duthie is speaking with the author Dr Amy McQuire to launch the book " The Power of Indigenous Media: Black Witness" and Professor Chelsea Watego.

From one of this country’s leading Indigenous journalists comes a collection of fierce and powerful essays proving why the media needs to believe Black Witnesses.

Described by the late John Pilger ‘one of the most exciting journalists I have ever worked with’, Dr Amy McQuire offers a searing indictment of the media’s failures in reporting Indigenous affairs – and a powerful corrective that shows how Black journalism can pave the way for equality and justice. Dr Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman from Rockhampton, Central Queensland. She is a prolific Aboriginal affairs journalist, academic, writer and commentator who has been published in Guardian Australia, the National Indigenous Times, The Saturday Paper, BuzzFeed News Australia, New Matilda, Vogue Australia, Marie Claire, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among others. She currently co-hosts Curtain The Podcast, which was named one of the top 25 true crime podcasts by New York’s Vulture magazine. In 2019 she won a Clarion Award and was nominated for a Walkley Award for her essay on the wrongful conviction of Aboriginal man Kevin Henry, and in 2022 she won Meanjin’s Hilary McPhee Award for brave essay writing for her piece on the disappearing of Aboriginal women.