Koori Radio streams Indigenous and Black Australian music alongside talkback, news and community information live from Redfern, Sydney, run by and for Australia's First Nations community. Press play on Radio Shuffle and it streams instantly, free, with no account or app download required.
Grown Out of a Protest-Era Broadcast
Koori Radio traces its roots back to Radio Redfern, a station established in the early 1980s that doubled as a communication channel for the thousands of Indigenous people who gathered in Sydney for protests during that era, according to Wikipedia's history of the station. Radio Redfern's success inspired Cathy Craigie, Matthew Cook and Tim Bishop to found the Gadigal Information Service in 1993, an Aboriginal-owned and -operated media organisation built to carry that same mission forward on a permanent footing.
From Six Years of Work to a Sydney-Wide Licence
After years spent building toward a full broadcast licence, the Australian Communications and Media Authority granted Gadigal Information Service a licence to broadcast Koori Radio full-time across Sydney on May 25, 2001, with the station moving to its full-time schedule the following year. The station broadcast one of its most ambitious early moments during the 2000 Sydney Olympics, transmitting Indigenous voices across the city through the National Indigenous Radio Service while the world's attention was on the city.
Purpose-Built Studios in Redfern
In 2008, Australian government funding let Koori Radio renovate and move into purpose-built studios inside the Black Theatre in Redfern, a suburb the station calls "Australia's Black Capital," broadcasting 24/7 on 93.7FM and DAB+ from land belonging to the Gadigal people. Decades after Radio Redfern's informal broadcasts, that studio gave the station a permanent physical home to match the permanence it had already earned on air.
Award-Nominated Programming Today
The station's current lineup includes Blackchat and Live From Redfern, both finalists at the 2026 CBAA Awards in news and current affairs and Australian music respectively, with presenter Kirstyn Lindsay also nominated for Outstanding Presenter. Koori Radio also carries the live national broadcast of the Yabun Festival, one of Australia's largest celebrations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, held every January 26 in Redfern's Victoria Park.
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Koori Radio streams Indigenous and Black Australian music and culture live from Redfern, Sydney, carrying forward a broadcasting mission that started with Radio Redfern in the 1980s. Stream it free on Radio Shuffle, anywhere, any time, with no sign-up required.