Glynn, Freda (1939 - )

Freda Glynn is co-founder of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association Group of Companies (CAAMA).

Freda Glynn spent her early childhood in and around Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. She was one of forty children to be evacuated from Alice Springs during World War Two following Japanese advances into the Pacific, particularly the bombing of Darwin and Katharine. With her mother and sister, she travelled via Melbourne to a Church Missionary Society evacuee camp in the Blue Mountains.

In 1980, with John Macumba and Philip Batty, Freda Glynn co-founded the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association Group of Companies (CAAMA). CAAMA incorporates Imparja, the first Aboriginal commercial television station, which commenced broadcasting in 1988 in Alice Springs and was chaired by Glynn for a time. Imparja was responsible for broadcasting Urrpeye, an Aboriginal current affairs program. Freda Glynn also established the first licensed Aboriginal radio station, Radio 8KIN FM, broadcasting in regional languages. In 2002, she played Grandma Nina in the short film Shit Skin, a drama about a young man who takes his grandmother back to the place of her childhood so that she can reconnect with her surviving family. In May of that year, Glynn received the Award for Contribution to Indigenous Media at the Third Tudawali Indigenous Film and Video Awards held at the Sydney Opera House.

Events

c. 1980 - c. 2000	Career in journalism active
2002	Tudawali Indigenous Film and Video Awards - Award for Contribution to Indigenous Media

Australian Women Exhibitions

• The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html. [ Details... ]

Documentary Films

• Burum, Ivo, Satellite Dreaming, Tony Dowmunt, CAAMA Productions, Australia, 1991. (Also available at http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/satellite-dreaming/clip2/) [ Details... ]
• McGowan, John, Six Australians, Freda Glynn, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, 1984. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

• Glynn, Freda and Philip Batty, 'The development of Aboriginal radio and television in Central Australia (paper presented at the Twelfth General Conference of the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils in Beijing, 1997)', Newsletter of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, vol. 17, no. 3, 1998, pp. 34-43. [ Details... ]

Videorecordings

• Boseley, Nicholas, Shit Skin, Kimba Thompson, Sally Riley, Sista Girl Productions, Australia, 2002. [ Details... ]