Bridget Brennan (@bridgeyb) 's Twitter Profile
Bridget Brennan

@bridgeyb

News Breakfast and Indigenous Affairs @abcnews | Former Europe Correspondent | Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung | Former fellow at @risj_oxford

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linkhttp://abc.net.au/news calendar_today10-03-2009 05:19:02

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Melissa Mackay (@_melissamackay) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As a journalist who spent much of my seven years in the NT reporting on domestic violence, I cannot agree with this more. Where is the national outrage, when domestic homicide rates in the NT are seven times that of the national average?

Stephanie Ferrier (@ferriersteph) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I had the privilege of meeting two remarkable teens, Tianna and Raya, who fought and beat leukaemia during covid lockdowns. Now they want futures in the medical world to help other kids. Their story on ABC News Breakfast

I had the privilege of meeting two remarkable teens, Tianna and Raya, who fought and beat leukaemia during covid lockdowns. Now they want futures in the medical world to help other kids. Their story on  ABC News Breakfast
Nakari Thorpe (@nakarithorpe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

More First Nations children are being removed from their parents than ever. In the midst of the spike, a new report shows only 6 per cent of child protection funding goes to Aboriginal-run organisations. abc.net.au/news/2024-11-2…

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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." abc.net.au/news/2024-11-2…

Louisa Lim (@limlouisa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Guardian’s Nour Haydar on Australian newsrooms: “It was obvious who got the assumption of objectivity and who didn’t.”

The Guardian’s <a href="/NourHaydar/">Nour Haydar</a> on Australian newsrooms: “It was obvious who got the assumption of objectivity and who didn’t.”
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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.

Lisa Wheildon PhD (@drlisawheildon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“The government “noted” its 10 recommendations aimed at preventing further violence, but said they were up to all levels of government to implement. In response, the language from almost every corner has been blunt, and despairing: this is a crisis.” theguardian.com/australia-news…

Nakari Thorpe (@nakarithorpe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A statue of music legends Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter has been erected at Atherton Gardens in Fitzroy. The place where Uncle Archie reunited with his biological family for the first time, as did many survivors of the Stolen Generations abc.net.au/news/2024-11-3…

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“Syrians right now live in a constant state of happiness as well as fear from what our future is going to look like” My story speaking to Syrians about the turmoil of the last few weeks, including a young woman documenting her daily life on TikTok. abc.net.au/news/2024-12-2…

John Lyons (@thelyonsden) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: Foreign Min Penny Wong & Amb Kevin Rudd just been to White House & met Trump nat security adviser Mike Waltz. It's high level access on day 1 of a new administration. It flies in face of those who said Aus & Rudd would be frozen out. About to meet Sec State Marco Rubio.

Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s a sign of how far the GOP has become simply the Trump party and democratic norms and guardrails have completely weakened that the incoming president could issue pardons for insurrectionists who committed violence against police officers and the old party of law and order

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So it's over. Murdoch "offers a full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex." Finally admits unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for the Sun as well as the NotW. Some current and ex Murdoch big cheeses will be very relieved the case has been

Edward Pentin (@edwardpentin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Vatican said this evening that the Pope’s condition “continues to be critical” and this morning he had a long “asthmatic respiratory crisis” requiring “high flows of oxygen.” Blood tests showed a condition associated with anemia and so resulted in blood transfusions. “The

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An astounding press conference from Justin Trudeau. Cites Trump wanting the Canadian economy to collapse to make it easier for the US to annex his country.

Melissa Mackay (@_melissamackay) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Northern Territory Labor MP Marion Scrymgour says the federal government needs to show leadership around black deaths in custody and calls for an audit of recommendations from the Royal Commission. ABC News Carly Williams Bridget Brennan abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…