Bridget Brennan
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News Breakfast and Indigenous Affairs @abcnews | Former Europe Correspondent | Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung | Former fellow at @risj_oxford
Oxford
Joined March 2009
RT @hughriminton: “I was punished for my political beliefs” - broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf after winning her unfair dismissal case agains….
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RT @_melissamackay: Northern Territory Labor MP Marion Scrymgour says the federal government needs to show leadership around black deaths i….
abc.net.au
Northern Territory federal MP Marion Scrymgour slams current and former governments for "taking their eye off the ball" regarding Aboriginal deaths in custody, while a grieving grandfather tells...
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RT @lewis_goodall: An astounding press conference from Justin Trudeau. Cites Trump wanting the Canadian economy to collapse to make it easi….
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RT @EdwardPentin: The Vatican said this evening that the Pope’s condition “continues to be critical” and this morning he had a long “asthma….
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RT @arusbridger: So it's over. Murdoch "offers a full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex." Finally admits unlawful activities c….
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RT @lewis_goodall: It’s a sign of how far the GOP has become simply the Trump party and democratic norms and guardrails have completely wea….
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RT @TheLyonsDen: BREAKING: Foreign Min Penny Wong & Amb Kevin Rudd just been to White House & met Trump nat security adviser Mike Waltz. It….
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RT @lewis_goodall: Just the most astounding bit of TV journalism imaginable. @clarissaward is a titan.
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RT @nakarithorpe: A statue of music legends Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter has been erected at Atherton Gardens in Fitzroy. The place where….
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The statue is in Atherton Gardens, Fitzroy, known to many in Victoria's Aboriginal community as a gathering place and where members of the Stolen Generations reunited with their families.
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RT @DrLisaWheildon: “The government “noted” its 10 recommendations aimed at preventing further violence, but said they were up to all level….
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As NT police say they are ‘overwhelmed’ by the scale of the violence, a federal allocation of $180m sits untouched
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RT @limlouisa: The Guardian’s @NourHaydar on Australian newsrooms: “It was obvious who got the assumption of objectivity and who didn’t.” h….
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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.
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RT @NickKristof: The UN reported that an average of 10 children lose a leg in Gaza each day.
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RT @nakarithorpe: More First Nations children are being removed from their parents than ever. In the midst of the spike, a new report show….
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A new report shows only 6 per cent of child protection funding goes to Aboriginal-run organisations, despite these groups often posting better outcomes.
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"For the first time, an Australian government sat opposite a collective of Aboriginal communities in a bid to negotiate a treaty, in recognition of their sovereign rights over land colonised without their consent."
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For the first time, an Australian government has sat opposite a collective of Aboriginal communities in a bid to negotiate a treaty, in recognition of their sovereign rights over land colonised...
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RT @FerrierSteph: I had the privilege of meeting two remarkable teens, Tianna and Raya, who fought and beat leukaemia during covid lockdown….
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