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Freda Glynn was born on 24 August, 1939 in Woodgreen Station, Northern Territory, is an Australian Indigenous media group founder. Discover Freda Glynn's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 24 August, 1939
Birthday 24 August
Birthplace Woodgreen Station, Northern Territory
Nationality Australia

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Parents Alf Price (father)Topsy Glynn (mother)
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Children Erica Glynn Warwick Thornton

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1916

Freda's mother, Topsy Glynn, was born around 1916, the daughter of a "half-caste" stockman called James Glynn and an unnamed Aboriginal woman.

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

1919

After Topsy's mother was killed, around 1919, Ron Purvis Sr persuaded the NT police commissioner Robert Stott to put Topsy in to the "Half-caste Institution Alice Springs" (The Bungalow, then at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station), although she was not technically "half-caste", on condition that Purvis employed her on Wood Green Station as soon as she had completed her schooling there, which he did.

Glynn gave birth to two daughters on Atartinga /Wood Green.

1936

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

Freda's father was Rona's father's brother, Alf Price.

They are both granddaughters of Isobelle Violet Price (Hesketh), the first lone woman to run a station, after her husband Fred, telegraph master of Alice Springs Telegraph Station, had died.

Freda never knew her father.

1939

Alfreda "Freda" Glynn (born 24 August 1939), also known as Freda Thornton, is a Kaytetye photographer and media specialist.

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

Alfreda Glynn was born on 24 August 1939 at Wood Green Station (Atartinga), 150 km north of Alice Springs, the daughter of Alf Price and Topsy Glynn, a housemaid and cook for a Mr R. H. Purvis (Ron Purvis Sr).

Topsy was again admitted to The Bungalow on 12 Sept 1939, when Freda was just three weeks old and Rona was three years old, as there were post-birth health issues to be attended to, the authorities were trying to determine who Freda's father was, and owing to "the promiscuous manner in which Topsy was giving birth to half-caste infants at Wood Green station it was...considered to be in the girls best interests for her and her children to remain in the Institution".

Topsy was not keen to return to the station, as she was employed by Purvis "as housemaid and cook and had also done stockwork and windmill repair work around the station and in return had only received clothing and rations", and was happy working as a laundress at the institution.

1940

However, by November 1940, Topsy was again working for Purvis at Wood Green under an agreement similar to that which governed the employment of half-caste girls in the township.

1942

Following the bombing of Darwin in February 1942, there were military orders to evacuate The Bungalow, so Topsy went to find work on a farm in New South Wales with her girls.

However bad circumstances there caused her to leave, and she was taken in by a couple in the Sydney suburb of Vaucluse as a domestic.

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

In late May 1942 a number of other children from The Bungalow were escorted to Mulgoa via Adelaide (and possibly Melbourne as well).

1949

Glynn and her family were returned to Alice Springs in 1949, when she was 10 years old, and they lived at St Mary's Hostel, under the care of Sister Eileen Heath.

St Mary's was run by the Australian Board of Missions, and provided accommodation and schooling for Aboriginal children who had been either placed there by their parents or by the Director of Native Affairs.

Several returning evacuees were placed there after the war.

1953

In 1953, both Freda and Rona are listed as wards of the N.A.B., with Freda a school student while Rona was employed in Alice Springs.

The accompanying photo shows Rona – the tallest girl in the back row – and Erica, to her left, during this time.

1956

After leaving school, in 1956, Glynn worked at Trish Collier's photographic studio in the darkroom; she was one of the first Aboriginal girls in Alice Springs to get a job other than as a domestic or cleaner.

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

She also worked as a cleaner, and raised five children during this time.

1977

In 1977, after gaining a community development qualification from the South Australian Institute of Technology, she started work as a community development adviser for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs.

1980

In 1980, after much consideration, 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.

Following this Glynn became an advocate for Aboriginal media and was appointed as a committee member of CAAMA when it was chartered on 12 May 1980; this again was a voluntary position.

During the early 1980s, CAAMA also mailed out around 300 audio cassette tapes each month to remote rural communities, containing news that affected them, along with health information, interviews, music and stories.

After Imparja was established, a three-year training grant was provided by the government, which provided training for Indigenous students in journalism, film, and other aspects of media.

Two of Glynn's children, Erica Glynn and Warwick Thornton, and her granddaughter Tanith Glynn-Maloney, along with many other now well-known names in the industry, such as Trisha Morton-Thomas, Rachel Perkins, and Steven McGregor, got their initial training at CAAMA.

Following her time at CAAMA, Glynn continued to work in media.

1981

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

During this period CAAMA grew exponentially and they established:

2002

In 2002 Glynn played Grandma Nina in the short drama film Shit Skin, about a young man who takes his grandmother back to her childhood community, in order to reconnect with her surviving family.

2018

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

Glynn is the matriarch of a filmmaking family.

Two of her children, Erica Glynn and Warwick Thornton, are both successful filmmakers, as are two of her grandchildren: Dylan River and Tanith Glynn-Maloney.

2019

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