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Overcrowded homes are putting immunocompromised elders at risk in WA's remote Pilbara, according to the local health service. Many people travel from remote communities to the mining town of Newman for renal dialysis, but have nowhere to stay when in town https://t.co/xpoNHLDorr

RT @abcnews: The documents detail hundreds of disturbing cases of babies and toddlers being forcibly dragged, pulled, kicked, force-fed, us…

"We've got to ask ourselves: how is it that 25–30-year-olds, or in this case a 31-year-old, are dying in our prisons while in the bloom years of life?" The is the 14th death in custody in Australia this year & the fourth to involve an Indigenous prisoner https://t.co/6H6IsYrdz3

RT @nit_times: A young Aboriginal man has died in custody in Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison in Western Australia. #AboriginalRights #…

"All it is is rocks in a paddock. Being a miner, a rock's a rock." A western Victorian farmer has disputed a charge that he destroyed a large Aboriginal cultural heritage site, telling a court he believed it presented a "safety issue". https://t.co/k8vEA9Q9cj

RT @AFL: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following post contains the name and image of a deceased person.…

Stuart's family says he asked for mental health support but he didn't get it. Days later he was dead https://t.co/MwW9tMb9vl

RT @abcnews: #BREAKING: Voters will go to the polls on May 3, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese set to call the federal election tomorro…

When Molly was hospitalised after her partner assaulted her, authorities took her baby away. Her situation is far from unique, as a new report into the massive and growing over-representation of Indigenous children in out-of-home care in WA shows https://t.co/aRsBfNlBRR

It has been more than 900 days since Clinton Austin was found dead in a Victorian prison cell. On the opening day of his inquest, Mr Austin's loved ones came to court hoping for answers. Instead, they sat through 2-hours of lawyers arguing over evidence https://t.co/1J5rOeibsO

A major investigation is underway, an Australian first, unearthing a long-buried history hidden from the national narrative. It’s called Yoorrook, the Wemba Wemba word for “truth”. https://t.co/BJiLhBpMSW

RT @abcnews: Next on Four Corners: Truth/Yoorrook Monday 24 March https://t.co/IaUzpxeILA

When Wanda Gibson was a girl, living in Queensland in the 50s, she would get three second-hand dresses for Christmas every year Her book inspired by those precious garments, Three Dresses, has won the $100k top prize at Victorian Premier's Literary Awards https://t.co/gUDC9hgmWg

The skull of a Tasmanian Aboriginal man taken during colonial times will return home after spending more than 170yrs in a Scottish university collection It’s believed to have been taken during the 1820s-30s & used for teaching in 19th-early 20th centuries https://t.co/FSIBz2gcBV

For remote Papunya in Central Australia, the nearest professional haircut is three hours away. But this week locals lined up at a shipping container for free haircuts to mark the opening of the town's first hair salon — delivered by students in training. https://t.co/IQfDGy0DNk

Aboriginal families are considering a formal complaint after they were forced to leave an Inverell pool by police. They allege all Aboriginal parents and children visiting the pool were targeted by staff and police. https://t.co/tURINuqVso

The discovery of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady, some of the most significant remains ever found, helped to re-write history. But how they, and 106 other remains, should be laid to rest has led to decades of division, secret burials & two federal court cases https://t.co/AFUOFigOID