Dr Amy McQuire

Biography

Dr Amy McQuire is a Senior Lecturer at the Carumba Institute. She is a proud Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman from Rockhampton in Central Queensland.

She has  over 17 years experience working as a journalist in Aboriginal and independent media, and co-hosts the investigative podcast Curtain the Podcast with Yuin lawyer Martin Hodgson. Amy's work interrogates the role of media in reproducing violence against Aboriginal women, specifically looking at the cases of disappeared and murdered Aboriginal women and girls. She completed  her PhD  into media representations of violence against Aboriginal women at the University of Queensland, and was awarded Lowitja Institute's  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year 2023 for this work.

For her journalism, she has won the Clarion award for Indigenous affairs reporting and was nominated for a Walkley for Indigenous affairs reporting. In 2023, she was awarded the Hilary McPhee award for brave essay writing by Meanjin . She has also been an Ochberg fellow at the Dart Centre for  Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University, and was awarded a Substack Fellowship.

Her first children's book  Day Break was published by  Hardie Grant Children's Publishing in 2021, and her first non-fiction book Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media was published by University of Queensland Press (UQP) in 2024.