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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

They are under-resourced, over worked, under staffed but still open each day to serve our people. Thanks for having me you mob, there's a lot of work to do and I am standing with you.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

An important visit to Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Services today, where we met Julie Tongs and the team. Real community controlled Aboriginal services deliver on the ground to our people.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A future where they won’t watch their Country being destroyed. A future where their families will be given the opportunity to not just survive but thrive. A future where we can finally live the way we were always meant to.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I want to see a future where younger generations will be able to enjoy their Land without needing to fight profit-hungry governments and resource-thieving companies.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. On this day we are meant to be celebrating the achievements of First Peoples around the world. But for so many of us, our lives are spent resisting colonial powers.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We are hearing from Kind Enterprises that racism itself never seems as offensive as the calling out of racism.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Player Peter Hood says kids should just be kids and should not have to face this racist abuse on the field or in their lives. Sometimes, Fitzroy Stars players wonder whether they should play for mainstream clubs instead to not be targeted as much.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Fitzroy Stars players were targeted by racist abuse during a game in February, but the Northern Football Netball League tribunal handed down a not guilty verdict. That is devastating to players and the community - there are no consequences for racist abuse.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

She also says that the major sporting organisations have a monopoly over Blakfullas and when you do say something, you get kicked off the team.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Marissa Williamson-Pohlman, the first Aboriginal woman to represent this country at the Olympics for boxing, says that institutions celebrate Blak excellence when it is convenient, but abandon us when it matters most.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Truth-telling should happen in every state and territory, as well as on the federal level. It just depends on whether governments are brave enough to make it happen.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We heard from Co-chair Djaran Murray Jackson that hopefully, chapter treaties might be able to address health, justice, housing and other areas affecting our people's everyday lives.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I asked about how Treaty can address how the state keeps perpetrating Genocide because at the moment, the systemic issues are not yet tackled.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The racism inquiry is now in Melbourne for its two last hearings. Today has a key focus on media and sports, but we're starting off with Gellung Warl's (the First Peoples Assembly) appearance this morning. Follow along here www.youtube.com/live/QyNYDeY...

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Joint Standing Committee on ATSIA | Melbourne, VIC | 06/08/2026

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Next we heard from Jim Everett, Aaron Everett and Ruth Langford who are working to protect culture, community and Country. Ruth is facing imprisonment for protecting country.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

First up: Tasmanian Regional Aboriginal Communities Alliance and First Peoples (Tasmania) Aboriginal Corporation who are ripping apart Meta's evidence from last week. Racist comments are not moderated. Racist bots target Aboriginal people's posts as soon as they go up.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Today the Inquiry into racism, hate and violence directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is hearing from witnesses in Nipaluna (Hobart). www.youtube.com/live/_fw5W6b...

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Joint Standing Committee on ATSIA | Hobart, TAS | 05/08/2026

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Pam and Latisha are two of ten complainants that have lodged this case before the United Nations Human Rights Committee, to declare it is unlawful for Australia to continue approving coal and gas exports, without a plan to prevent dangerous climate harm and keep people safe. Please watch this video:

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Hard Truths: the Australian coal + gas exports case | Launch

YouTube video by Hard Truths Case

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Recently I met with two complainants from this human rights case against the government, for failing to protect us from climate pollution by Australia’s coal and gas corporations.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Healthcare is in a crisis state in the Torres Strait. We are hearing the Torres Model of Care was dismantled because it worked. It was replaced with an model based on emergency medicine. At the terminal stage, health care comes too late. The system is set out to let our people die.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

He is saying that governments want to maintain the margin of Genocidal value and our deaths promotes a sense of victory in them.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Professor Phillip Mills giving very strong evidence now, calling out that the system has no interest in improving the health of First Peoples. It is built that way and policies have always been designed in a way that commodifies our deaths

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We are hearing that there is a huge funding shortfall for the region. The way funding is distributed by the federal government means there is not much that can reach the ground. Multiple layers of racism drastically impact everything in the region.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

There is a massive housing crisis here and the Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council is calling for an identified funding stream for First Peoples within the Housing Australia Future Fund.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

While $0.50 fares in regional centres of QLD are available, communities here have been fighting for freight subsidies and better public transport infrastructure for many years, with their please not being heard.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council is telling us that nowhere else in the country are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities amalgamated into a single council and this has created a lot of challenges.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We are also hearing that there is not enough support to future proof against the impacts of climate change. Relocation is not an alternative for the islands. If the islands sink, the people will sink with them.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It is not on Islanders to adapt to western ways. It is time to take control of their own destiny to maintain the integrity and vision the Elders have left behind.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We are starting the day hearing from Elder Getano Lui that mainlanders think they know what is best for Torres Strait Islanders but it has to stop. People have to look, listen and adapt.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We know this leads to further targeting of our people and racist and violent criminalisation.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Meanwhile, 'Cairns Safer Street Taskforce' is controlled by government and agencies and has no input from First Peoples, no input on following cultural protocols.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We're hearing from North QLD Land Council and Edmonston Storms that there is a huge problem with youth incarceration in the area.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Queensland LGBTQIA+ Alliance says that there is an absolute lack of funding for First Peoples LGBTQIA+ groups, especially so for Sistergirls and Brotherboys, who are facing highest levels of discrimination and racism.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Every dollar put into supports in schools gets a manifold return. Children being kept in schools are less likely to enter the prison system, more likely to find employment and have long-term better life outcomes. www.youtube.com/live/02ERC65...

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Joint Standing Committee on ATSIA | Cairns, QLD | 30/07/2026

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Our children with disabilities enter detention instead of classrooms, and prisons instead of universities. This is not because of a lack of potential but because of the system.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

First Peoples children with disability are too often being suspended or excluded from schools rather than given appropriate supports to enable them to fully participate in the education system. They then move into foster care, residential care and eventually into the so-called youth justice system.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We heard from Queensland Advocacy for Inclusion and Mob 4 Mob, who are saying racism and ableism are related and feed into each other to destroy lives.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There needs to be real accountability: actual consequences for harmful actions, not just silencing of those that experiences them.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We are hearing from young people that truth-telling is where healing starts and that everyone should understand our history better. Now that we all call this place home, how do we live together?

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The way Meta handles racism towards First Peoples is not taking their responsibility seriously. It is just to tick a box. Our people deserve better.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If this does not addressed with urgency, we’re going to see a generation of young people with mental health issues. Sadly, there is already a high number of suicides amongst young people here

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

They are trying to build strong leaders of the next generation but are constantly being put down, constantly being asked to prove themselves. Government and social media is reinforcing racist, violent narratives and it has real impacts.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We started the day hearing powerful young voices from Deadly Inspiring Youth Doing Good.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

He says that institutions act as the guardrails of colonialism: they decide who receives, is believed; who is punished and silenced.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Mr Carl Fourmile says racism not only an individual act but embedded in structural institutions and it effects people in every aspect of their lives, making them feel lesser than. It's causing what used to be called colonial exhaustion and is now termed 'Blak fatigue'.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

These organisations make people feel heard, and they are then able to address the needs of the community.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ms Nicole Huxley is giving powerful evidence. She says our community-controlled organisations don’t just provide services but are there for people to have a shoulder to cry on.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The results have been very widespread across peoples lives and have enabled racism to grow.

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