Malarndirri McCarthy’s net worth

Melarndirri Barbara McCarty was born April 19, 1979, is an Australian politician and former journalist and has also been the senator for Nothern Territory since 2016.

She holds an office as an assistant Minister in the Albanese Government.

McCarthy was raised with her mother in Borroloola, on the McArthur River.

She boarded in Alice Springs and at St Scholastica’s College, Sydney, where she was school captain in 1988.

McCarthy is a former Australian Broadcasting Corporation newsreader and journalist who began her cadetship in 1989 and worked across Australia as a news and current affairs television and radio reporter.

In 1993, after a trial run at presenting the late news from Sydney, she was appointed as weeknight newsreader for ABC News in Darwin.

She co-established Borroloola’s first community radio station, B102.9FM-The Voice of the Gulf, in 1998, with assistance from the ABC, and also set up the Lijakarda Cultural Festivals and Media, Arts & Training Centre for Yanyuwa, Kudanji, Garrawa & Mara people from Borroloola.

In 2005, McCarthy was appointed to the NT Legislative Assembly for the division of Arnhem.

She was re-elected unopposed in 2008 and was thereafter appointed to the ministry by Paul Henderson.

She held a number of portfolios over the following four years but lost her seat in Labor’s landslide defeat in the 2012 election.

McCarthy afterwards returned to the media as a presenter for NITV and SBS News.

She re-entered politics as Labor’s lead Senate candidate in the Northern Territory in the 2016 federal election.

Malarndirri McCarthy’s net worth

Melarndirri has been mentioned among other richest and most popular politicians in Australia.

Her net worth has not yet been provided however experts estimate that she is expected to be worth between $2-$5 million.