She joined the department in 2019 as a Development and Investment Manager, where she managed a slate of projects from Feature Film, TV Drama Series and children’s animation to documentaries, including We Are Still Here (a co-production between Australia and New Zealand), award-winning TV drama Total Control series 2, Little J & Big Cuz 3, Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky and a new TV crime drama True Colours. 

Angela Bates hails from Country New South Wales and is a proud Aboriginal and Maori woman. She has a background in journalism and has worked at CAAMA, the ABC, SBS, and NITV. One of her proudest achievements is setting up the first nightly National Indigenous News service in 2008 as its inaugural Executive Producer, overseeing its rapid growth including the free-to-air launch in 2012. 

She has a Master of Arts Screen: Business and Leadership from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS).  She spent a year in Winnipeg, Canada, in 2015 and 2016 working for the World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network hosted by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN).