Julie Nimmo

Julie was born in Sydney and is from the Wiradjuri nation. She was a producer/reporter for the SBS Television Indigenous news and current affairs program ICAM. Her particular area of interest has been social justice issues, with an emphasis on opinions at the grassroots level.

In 2000, Julie received a Walkley Award special commendation in the Indigenous category. The same year she was recognised by the Canadian equivalent with a BANFF Hors Concours for a story about the heroin and housing problems on "The Block" in the Sydney suburb of Redfern.

Julie has also tackled the vexed issue of the ever-increasing number of Aboriginal deaths in custody in Western Australia, as well as the ongoing struggle for justice and equality at an international level. She represented Australia on a panel of Indigenous journalists at the United Nation's Conference on Racism in South Africa.

Julie's ambition in life is to help convey the thoughts and opinions of her people with respect and dignity in whatever way she can.

Filmography

INTERVENTION, Katherine, N.T. » Produced by award-winning film maker Tom Zubrycki, (with ABC’s David Jowsey as Commissioning Editor) and written and directed by Julie Nimmo, The Intervention was shot over a an 8-month period and features the lives of ordinary community residents as they experience the Intervention first hand, as well as the various government and business workers who all come together to implement it...

PIONEERS OF LOVE » An epic story of Immigrant and Indigenous experiences in far north Queensland spanning across the 20th century. In the early 20th century, a small group of Russians, including members of the Illin family, fled from persecution in Tsarist Russia and settled in the Atherton tablelands in far north Queensland, calling their new home “Little Siberia”...