11 Facts About Freda Glynn

Freda Glynn is known as co-founder of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association Group of Companies, which incorporates CAAMA and Imparja.

Freda Glynn was later described by the authorities as a "three-quarter-caste aboriginal".

The first of these was Rona Freda Glynn, born in 1936, whose father was Ron Price.

Freda Glynn stayed with her, while the Church Missionary Society helped to place Rona at an Anglican home at Mulgoa, west of Sydney, where Freda Glynn later joined her.

Freda Glynn had a number of other roles before she became involved in media.

Freda Glynn worked as a cleaner, and raised five children during this time.

In 1980, after much consideration, Freda Glynn joined John Macumba and Philip Batty in volunteering to make The Aboriginal Half Hour, the first Aboriginal radio program in the Northern Territory, where she began recording interviews around town, doing the program "links" and voice-overs as well as working on English language programming.

In June 1981 Macumba resigned as the director of CAAMA and was replaced by Freda Glynn, then known by her married name Thornton, with Philip Batty as the deputy director; the two worked together from 1981 to 1991.

In 2019 Erica Freda Glynn released her feature documentary, She Who Must Be Loved, about her mother; she was assisted by her granddaughter Tanith Freda Glynn-Maloney.

The film had its world premiere at the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival on 13 October 2018, which was attended by the family, and was screened at the 2019 Sydney Film Festival, at which Freda Glynn addressed the audience.

Freda Glynn showed her offspring and many others that "you can't tell anyone else's story"; Australia needs Indigenous storytellers, and CAAMA had enabled many of them to pursue their careers.