Carol Dowling is a Badimaya/Yamatji woman whose family comes from Coodingnow & Wydgee Stations in the Central West of Western Australia. She is the long serving chair of Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation and former Chair of Noongar Radio 100.9FM in Perth. Ms Dowling is also an award winning radio documentary producer. She holds a Masters in Indigenous Research and Development from Curtin University and her doctoral thesis in Social Sciences focuses on the impact of colonialisation upon five generations of women in her family. In 2011/12, Ms Dowling completed a major documentary series for the federal health department on Aboriginal child ear health in her community. Her series is a two-time finalist in the National Community Broadcasting Association of Australia awards and winner in 2013. The documentary series highlights the lived experience of Aboriginal families in Noongar country (south west of Western Australia) who live with the impact of Otitis Media in the lives of their children while promoting its prevention and treatment to Aboriginal audiences in Western Australia. She also won the Australian Human Rights Commission award for radio for this series in 2013.
