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Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

“Nationally in 2024, 44.5% of children aged 0–⁠17 years old in out‑of‑home care were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander – an increase of 4.5 percentage points since 2019.” www.pc.gov.au/closing-the-...

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Proportion of children in out-of-home care (0–17 years old) that are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Closing the Gap supporting indicator: Out-of-home care (Driver). Socio-economic outcome area 12: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are not overrepresented in the child protection system.

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Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective @paytherent.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

What does it mean to contribute to Pay The Rent? * it honours the Sovereignty of Aboriginal people * a more just way of living on this stolen land * transfers money on a grassroots to grassroots basis to support land justice and sovereignty campaigns You can get involved today: paytherent.net.au

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Pay The Rent | Saying Sorry Isn't Enough

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Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective @paytherent.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Many people will have seen the 1996 AIATSIS map - but do you know what it represents, and what it doesn't show. Most importantly is it still useful?

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Rajni Shah (they, them) 🍉 @rajnishah.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

"We wake in solidarity so that in the future we can wake in liberation." Beautiful short film on Blackfulla-Palestinian solidarity from the Institute for Collaborative Race Research. Take a minute to watch this and remember what we're rooting for. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hFg...

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Shared fight: Blackfulla-Palestinian solidarity

YouTube video by Institute for Collaborative Race Research

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Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective @paytherent.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

You can make a difference! If you are running an event, why not fundraise for Pay The Rent? Add a link to our website or include this image.

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💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 11/12/2024

Bloody hell More than 3,000 Aboriginal children in Victoria sought specialist homelessness services in 2023-24 One in five Aboriginal Victorians accessed the specialist, nearly 15 times the rate of non-Aboriginal clients. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

More than 3,000 Aboriginal children in Victoria sought specialist homelessness services in 2023-24

Data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has revealed one in five Aboriginal Victorians accessed the specialist homelessness services in the 2023-24 reporting period, nearly 15 times the rate of non-Aboriginal clients.

In the 2023-24 period, 3,156 Aboriginal children in Victoria accessed specialist homelessness services, which accounted for 13% of all children seeking support.

Darren Smith, chair of the Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Forum and CEO of Aboriginal Housing Victoria (AHV) said:

Homelessness was an unknown concept before colonisation, yet today it is an entrenched reality for Aboriginal people in Victoria. These are not just numbers; they represent families, children, and Elders denied the fundamental right to a home.

For too long, housing has been seen as a “commodity” rather than essential infrastructure; a foundational basis that provides safety, promotes participation, and sustains connections to community. It is time to turn around decades of underinvestment in our community.

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Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective @paytherent.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A statue of Uncle Archie and Aunty Ruby has been erected in Atherton Gardens where Uncle Archie was reunited with his biological family for the first time, as did many Aboriginal survivors of the Stolen Generations. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

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Statues of music legends Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter unveiled at a Melbourne park

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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Kate Bolam, PhD @katebolam.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is such an important listen. Thank you to Daniel and everyone involved.

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Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective @paytherent.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Bundjalung writer Melissa Lucashenko’s amazing run of literary prizes for her latest novel Edenglassie continues,with the Mark and Evette Moran Nib prize. She has given away has given away a substantial amount of her prize money. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

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Melissa Lucashenko reveals she is giving away her prize money after winning another $40,000

Author of sweeping historical novel Edenglassie continues run of wins with Mark and Evette Moran Nib award

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Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective @paytherent.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If you are into gift giving during the holiday season, why not choose something that will make a difference and contribute to Pay The Rent? Be part of grassroots support for First Nations communities and causes. Here's a poster with QR code to use ...

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Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective @paytherent.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

As the inquest into Kumanjayi Walker's death resumes, a lawyer for the Northern Territory police has said that it is “absolutely undeniable” that Zachary Rolfe is a racist. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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‘Absolutely undeniable’ Zachary Rolfe is racist, Kumanjayi Walker inquest told

NT police lawyer Ian Freckelton KC tells inquest into death of 19-year-old it is ‘important to call it as it is’

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Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective @paytherent.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

"That the deaths of Aboriginal women in the NT does not evoke the same reaction [as non-Aboriginal women interstate] is indicative of systemic racism in the way their voices go unheard" www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

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Amy Creighton @gomeroi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This is my granddaughter and her baby boy Keidy. They have lost everything except the pyjamas they were wearing. I know times are touch so any help, no matter how small will be genuinely appreciated. 💜 gofund.me/a99623aa

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Donate to Help Jaydo & Keidy get back on their feet, organized by Kameisha Riley

Hi my name is kameisha , im asking for any funds you have to help my bestfrie… Kameisha Riley needs your support for Help Jaydo & Keidy get back on their feet

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Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective @paytherent.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Since 2000, 81 women in the NT have died as a result of domestic violence, 93% of them Aboriginal. Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) calls on the Territory government to implement election promise plan to tackle the crisis. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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‘This is our horror’: the grim stories driving the Northern Territory’s reckoning with domestic violence

Since 2000, 81 women in the NT have died as a result of domestic violence, 93% of them Aboriginal – a landmark inquiry is looking at what went wrong

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Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective @paytherent.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

"Treaty is about better lives for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victoria." Read Rueben Berg's speech at the ceremonial opening of Treaty negotiations with the Victorian Government. www.firstpeoplesvic.org/news/this-wi...

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"This will be your Treaty" — Rueben Berg Speech — First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria

Thank you Premier for participating in the gift exchange. All the Assembly Members and I were up in Shepparton last week and we met with Timmy Church, a proud Gunditjmara man of the Kerrupmara clan an...

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Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective @paytherent.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If you're a new follower, Paying the Rent is about non-Indigenous people honouring the Sovereignty of Aboriginal people; it is a somewhat more just way of living on this stolen land. We are a First Nations governed collective that funds grassroots First Nations causes & campaigns. paytherent.net.au

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Pay The Rent | Saying Sorry Isn't Enough

We live, work and play on land that was forcibly taken from Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people. On this stolen land, systems & institutions have been built that are structured to exclude and oppress.

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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This is scorching and should be top of the reading pile for every journo, pollie or well-meaning whitefella. Grateful to Amy McQuire and UQP for the things I learned - and also grateful for the sections that singed my skin.

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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The federal senate of so-called Australia has censured Senator Lidia Thorpe for her bodacious truth-telling at a function for England's latest monarch. This colony has always hated strong Blak sovereign women. #Mobsky has Sen Thorpe's back! www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

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'Shame on you all': Lidia Thorpe responds after Senate censures her over King Charles protest

The independent senator interrupted a reception for King Charles and Queen Camilla in Canberra last month.

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