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Over 2 million more #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander peoples than originally believed, may have been killed because of the #colonisation of Australia, according to a new study.

#AUSPOL #FirstNations #ATSI #Indigenous #AUSTRALIA #Indig #Colonialism #SettlerColonialism #Genocide #Massacres
September 18, 2026 at 11:17 AM
reasonandrevolt.bsky.social
#Victoria #Treaty
#Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Indigenous #FirstNations
November 22, 2024 at 6:04 AM
lightonthehill.bsky.social
I have just reached 90 followers! It's great to be on @bsky.app | #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander #FirstNations voices are critical in the next decade of #history with a #ClimateEmergency and #Fascism and #Populism putting a strain on #Democracy #ListenToBlackVoices #WritingCommunity #writers
December 17, 2024 at 2:14 AM
lightonthehill.bsky.social
My opinion piece on #LibbyMettam and her culture war during the #WesternAustralia state #election this March: nit.com.au/11-03-2025/1... she is a vile individual | #racism #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #auspol @australianlabor.bsky.social
WA Liberals' culture war goes out with a whimper
The 2025 Western Australian state election was about many things to many people. For the majority, it was about cost of living, housing, appropriate hospital care for mothers and their babies, and you...
nit.com.au
March 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
pc.gov.au
Analysis from Dilin Duwa shows that #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander businesses employ 1/5th of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the workforce, while constituting less than 1% of total firms Australia-wide.
Read more: www.pc.gov.au/closing-the-...

#Employment
September 23, 2026 at 3:09 AM
reasonandrevolt.bsky.social
#Literature #Writing #Fiction
#WritingPrize #Writers #books #essays #manuscript
#Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Indigenous #FirstNations
#IndigenousWriters #AboriginalWriters #TorresStraitIslanderWriters
dranitaheiss.bsky.social Dr Anita Heiss @dranitaheiss.bsky.social · Feb 2
Bundyi Publishing announced today the Bundyi Writing Prize that will be awarded to an outstanding unpublished manuscript of adult fiction by an emerging Aboriginal and/or
Torres Strait Islander writer.

www.simonandschuster.com.au/p/BundyiAUPr...

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February 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
kirabsimpson.bsky.social
Hand woven hoop earrings with - oh what's this...
... rhinestones in Torres Strait Islander flag colours
💚🤍💙

#weaving #jewellery #rhinestones #bling #Indigenous #torresstraitislander #islandtime
February 17, 2025 at 6:06 AM
medianet.bsky.social
🔢 Today's Press Release Bulletin from Medianet 🔢
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#Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #EarlyLearningCommission #Climate #Foodservice #Environment #pressrelease #pressreleasedistribution #australia #australianews #media #journalists #NewsletteroftheWeek
February 19, 2026 at 3:53 AM
lightonthehill.bsky.social
People in #Panama have had enough | #Noongar Australians and #FirstNations Australians must unite to denounce #Trump and his #Fascism #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #ListenToBlackVoices #ListenToIndigenousVoices #Blacksky #AboriginalSky @meidastouch.com | #Australians need to #StandForDemocracy
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Jan 1
Huge protests have broken out against Trump in Panama after his threats to conquer the sovereign nation.
WOAH!!! HUGE Protest In Panama over Trump THREATS
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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January 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
reasonandrevolt.bsky.social
#InvasionDay protest in #Naarm ( #Melbourne):
10am January 26 @ Parliament House, Spring St.

#Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Indigenous #FirstNations
#NoPrideInGenocide #NotADateToCelebrate #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe
#Solidarity
January 21, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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They cost the federal government $150,000 a year. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price - the Shadow Minister for Government Efficiency - has said, if elected she'll axe the ceremonies. #auspol #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Indigenous #FirstNations
Nine things that cost more than Welcome to Country ceremonies
Welcome to Country ceremonies, which are budgeted at $450,000 over three years, are in the sights of Shadow Minister for Government Efficiency Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
www.sbs.com.au
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 AM
lightonthehill.bsky.social
I am unsurprised that #PeterDutton wants to undermine #FirstNations #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander #Sovereignty and #SelfDetermination | he has proven himself a #Racist and devoid of morality, integrity | the promise of an alternative referendum was obviously a lie nit.com.au/10-12-2024/1...
Peter Dutton 'unfit' to be PM after flag comments, Malarndirri McCarthy says
Indigenous leaders have lashed Peter Dutton's plan to no longer fly the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander flags at press conferences if he becomes Prime Minister, arguing he is seeking to divide pe...
nit.com.au
December 10, 2024 at 2:55 AM
reasonandrevolt.bsky.social
#StopAboriginalDeathsInCustody
#StopIndigenousDeathsInCustody
#Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Indigenous #FirstNations indigenousx.com.au/aboriginal-d...
Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Soar in NSW: A Growing Crisis of Injustice and Indifference – IndigenousX
indigenousx.com.au
November 21, 2024 at 4:08 AM
tallandtrue.bsky.social
Celebrating #NAIDOCWeek with #Indigenous inspired posts and stories from Tall And True: Reflecting on NAIDOC Week (2020). 🖤💛❤️ #NAIDOC #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Australia www.tallandtrue.com.au/blog/reflect...
Reflecting on NAIDOC Week (2020)
NAIDOC Week is a celebration of Indigenous Australian culture and survival. It's also an opportunity for Australians to reflect on history.
www.tallandtrue.com.au
July 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
reasonandrevolt.bsky.social
#InvasionDay #SurvivalDay #NoPrideInGenocide #IndigenousMusic🖤💛♥️#NotADateToCelebrate #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Indigenous #FirstNations

7. Barkaa - Blak Matriarchy
youtu.be/5J-2ervgSfc?...
Barkaa - Blak Matriarchy (Official Video)
YouTube video by BarkaaVEVO
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January 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
tallandtrue.bsky.social
Celebrating #NAIDOCWeek with posts and stories from Tall And True: The Songlines (2017). "It may seem strange that an English writer introduced me to a foundation of #Indigenous #Australian culture." 🖤💛❤️ #NAIDOC #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Australia www.tallandtrue.com.au/blog/the-son...
The Songlines
The book's focus and beauty is Chatwin's search for a definition of Songlines for Indigenous people. He learns they are more than "maps".
www.tallandtrue.com.au
July 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
lightonthehill.bsky.social
Long Weekend Reflection - what have you done for a First Nations Australian this week at work, in the classroom, or personally? And what are you going to do this week coming? 🖤💛❤️ #FirstNations #Blacksky #Indigenoussky #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #LabourDay
March 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
justjudith.bsky.social
Meet #DavidUnaipon, a proud #Ngarrindjeri man, well known for being a spokesperson for improving the conditions & rights for #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander people.
He made many significant contributions to #science & #literature.
#Raukkan
#FirstNations
#Indigenous
David Ngunaitponi (Unaipon)
David Unaipon was an inventor, writer, orator and campaigner. He spent much of his life transforming the minds of White Australia in the hope that one day Aboriginal people would be seen as equals.
aiatsis.gov.au
November 19, 2024 at 4:53 AM
reasonandrevolt.bsky.social
🧵#InvasionDay2025
🖤💛♥️
#IndigenousMusic #ProtestSongs & other music!
#InvasionDay #SurvivalDay #NoPrideInGenocide #NotADateToCelebrate #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe
#Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Indigenous #FirstNations

1. BIRDZ - Bagi-la-m Bargan ft. Fred Leone
youtu.be/878H2fkw3L8?...
BIRDZ - Bagi-la-m Bargan ft. Fred Leone (Official Video)
YouTube video by BIRDZ
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January 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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#Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander women experience a higher burden of #hyperglycaemia in pregnancy.

Study in #Australia shows aspects of care for women with hyperglycaemia in #pregnancy improved in the NT and QLD following a multi-component health systems intervention.

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Care provided to women during and after a pregnancy complicated by hyperglycaemia: the impacts of a multi-component health systems intervention
Aspects of care for women with hyperglycaemia in pregnancy improved in the NT and FNQ following a multi-component health systems intervention.
www.thelancet.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
reasonandrevolt.bsky.social
#Women #Girls #Children #NorthernTerritory #Prisons #HumanRightsAbuses #HumanRightsViolations
#Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Indigenous #FirstNations

nit.com.au/23-11-2024/1...
Treatment of NT prisoners a 'national crisis,' justice advocates warn
The treatment of inmates in Northern Territory prisons is a 'national crisis,' according to a leading justice organisation.There has been criticism levelled at the Territory's carceral system, with da...
nit.com.au
November 24, 2024 at 6:03 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
&"This All Come Back Now", edited by Mykaela Saunders is a 2022 anthology of #FirstNations #SpeculativeFiction by 22 #Aboriginal & TorresStraitIslander writers! Read how they subvert Western rationalism in imaginative ways & reclaim & tranform the #specfic genre

#Postcolonialism
The speculative short fiction anthology "This All Come Back Now" on a lime-green chair
November 15, 2024 at 8:00 AM
reasonandrevolt.bsky.social
"the [AIATSIS] map tries to give an idea of the richness and complexity of the overlapping ties to places, and between peoples, that were developed over millennia".

#Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Indigenous #FirstNations
#Culture #Language
www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...
EXPLAINER: Where did the AIATSIS map come from?
Its colourful patchwork is a familiar sight now, but how was it developed, and what does it actually show?
www.sbs.com.au
December 24, 2024 at 3:44 AM
reasonandrevolt.bsky.social
#InvasionDay #SurvivalDay #NoPrideInGenocide #IndigenousMusic🖤💛❤️#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Indigenous #FirstNations

11. Treaty - Yothu Yindi youtu.be/Jf-jHCdafZY?...
Yothu Yindi - Treaty (Original Version)
YouTube video by Yothu Yindi
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January 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
reasonandrevolt.bsky.social
#InvasionDay #SurvivalDay #NoPrideInGenocide
#IndigenousMusic🖤💛❤️
#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Indigenous #FirstNations

10. Better In Blak - Thelma Plum youtu.be/ExMjEwymQ3A?...
Thelma Plum - Better In Blak (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Thelma Plum
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January 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM