Jarred Cross   

Jarred is a Melbourne-based journalist with a portfolio of Indigenous news and affairs reporting on The Wire radio, with Sydney’s 2SER and health campaigns broadcast on community radio stations in remote NSW Indigenous communities. Jarred joined NIT in 2022 after three years in broadcasting. Now working from Wurundjeri Country, Jarred reports on a range of topics and affairs with particular focus on sport.
Giant skink brings Kaurna creation story to Naarm
Tucked into the busy streets of Naarm's inner-north, Northcote Town Hall is home...
Jarred Cross 6 Sep 2025
'Ganbu Gulin: wudhanu yuwanguth' opens FUSE Festival on Wurundjeri Country
City of Darebin's annual festival celebrating creativity stretching across its s...
Jarred Cross 2 Sep 2025
First Nations-led debut feature film secures funding as SA's Film Lab: New Voices selection
Yankunytjatjara sisters and filmmakers Pearl and Lilla Berry will premiere their...
Jarred Cross 12 Aug 2025
Screen NSW launches second round of First Nations Fellowship to support "lasting impact on the screen industry"
Screen NSW and SXSW have partnered on a program to boost the career of a success...
Jarred Cross 6 Aug 2025
Arrente stories and culture come to Naarm via red centre gallery exhibition
In the chill and grey of mid-winter Naarm, prominent Eastern Arrernte artist and...
Jarred Cross 25 Jul 2025
Yorta Yorta artist captures meaning behind 'special' First Nations netball tournament

Before the best emerging Indigenous netballers in the country come together with state and territory bragging rights on the line next month, Alkina Edwards has no trouble deciding on how to embrace th...

Jarred Cross Jul 24, 2025
Ngali Shaw set for stage in Tony Award-winning musical 'In The Heights'

Ngali Shaw is still wrapping his head around having secured a role in a modern mega-hit penned by one of musical theatre's biggest names. Shaw hits the stage as Benny in Lin Manuel-Miranda's quadruple...

Jarred Cross Jul 16, 2025
NAIDOC Dance to take over Naarm nightlife institution

For Barkindji, Narungga and Wotjobaluk artist DJ Fosters, music and culture cross over on a two-way street. Fosters (Henry Purcell) is one name on the lineup set to take over one of Australia's, maybe...

Jarred Cross Jul 1, 2025
King Stingray to headline bumper night of First Nations music at art gallery's NAIDOC Week event

Fresh from international touring, King Stringray will headline a bumper line-up celebrating NAIDOC Week at the Art Gallery of New South Wales next month.

Jarred Cross Jun 14, 2025
"It's not Aboriginal art. It's art": Powerful truth-telling exhibition explores 65,000 years of history

Expansive in scale and its traversing across the continent, traditions and time, '65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art' takes caveat away from how generations upon generations of tradition...

Jarred Cross May 31, 2025
Wiradjuri artist's road from passion to career, inspired by family and Country

In her former years, Wiradjuri artist Lauren Freestone's dad's house was like "his own little gallery", though she didn't envisage herself going down a similar path - let alone making it her career wh...

Jarred Cross May 8, 2025
Kobie Dee to headline ACT Reconciliation Day event

Gomeroi rapper Kobie Dee will headline a major Reconciliation Day event on Ngunnawal Country. The Australian Capital Territory has recognised the first Monday after or on May 27, the start of National...

Jarred Cross Apr 23, 2025
Indigenous comedians join forces for hour of sketches at Melbourne International Comedy Festival

After a string of hit shows in recent years, Dane Simpson is getting out of his comfort zone, with a friend by his side, at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Jarred Cross Apr 8, 2025
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