For the first time in our history, a black woman becomes minister for Indigenous Affairs. Historic moment for @LindaBurneyMP
- Hundreds of Aboriginal people now infected with COVID, including children and hearing some elders hospitalised. Absolutely terrifying situation, this should have never happened.
- If Kristina Keneally loses her seat, is this the end of "parachuting", and will Labor take cultural diversity within its party more seriously?
- Evonne coming out has absolutely finished me 😭😭😭
- Huge, huge news. The High Court has just ruled that Aboriginal people in remote housing can be compensated for distress and disappointment suffered due to dilapidated housing.
- This beautiful face, I can’t stop thinking of Cassius. ❣️❣️❣️
- Completely heartbroken. Archie told of our pain, our love and our survival as blackfellas. We loved him so dearly. His sons Amos and Eban say he was “healer and a unifying force”. Rest in power with the ancestors. ❤️🖤💛
- This is the most distressing story I think I’ve ever read, the allegations are grave and traumatising. It demands your full attention. Reporting by @rustyjacko
- 🧵 Over the weekend there has been a number of reprehensible pieces published by The Australian. Is this seriously the standard we’re going to walk past, Australian journalists?
- Have seen lots of people say ‘please don’t share the Today Show clip’. Sorry, nah, racism doesn’t miraculously disappear when you just look the other way. Might be convenient for white people to pretend it’s not amplified on our top TV programs - others don’t have that luxury.
- After a determination by the Yolngu community, the family of late actor David Gulpilil give permission for him to be referred to by his full name. "David wanted people to know his name, remember his work, and know his immense legacy to Australian cinema and Australian culture."
- If you're a journalist covering the scrutiny on Lidia Thorpe in the Senate but not the dozens of dead Aboriginal women missing and murdered (12 this year alone), or the landmark NT Coroner's report calling this issue our "national shame", then I just have no words for you.
- I've never seen such an outpouring of grief and strength - all at once - after hearing Kumanjayi's loved ones speak outside the NT Supreme Court today. This community has led with love every day for the past two-and-a-half years.
- Lockdowns are awful, we all know that. But are we really going to tell First Nations communities to “learn to live with the virus” when there is a critical vaccination gulf emerging? When we’ve got people isolating in tents out the front of overcrowded houses?
