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. Wikipedia
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