The Australian Women's Register

Summary

Kirstie Parker is a Yuwallarai woman from New South Wales with more than twenty years experience in journalism and communications, which has included stints on ABC Radio, the West Australian newspaper and a weekly regional newspaper in far north Queensland.

As well as working for media outlets, she has:

• been Media and Communications Manager at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra
• run the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre (AILC)
• been the Director of the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute – Tandanya in Adelaide
• been the Director of Public Affairs for ATSIC
• been the media adviser to a Federal Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs

Since July 2006, she has been the Editor of the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander newspaper, the Koori Mail.

Events

• 2003

  For contributions to the Indigenous community and Australian Life

  Awarded the Centenary Medal
• 1980