Beck Thompson

Indigenous Nurse, Artist and Educator working as a Remote Area Nurse in Aboriginal Communities I have a unique perspective on Indigenous Health (opinions own)

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

My first article….
Regardless of the referendum outcome, there are some conversations we need to have. It is well past time to Close the Gap.

With the Voice, we’re on the road to better health and wellbeing – Croakey Health Media https://t.co/wLtc80fzXL

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

@LynoreGeia I think a lot of people started posting less after the referendum too. The level of abuse has been pretty steady since then, no real let up.

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

Still me, still in Arnhem Land but thought it was time for a new pic. Never had a work ‘head shot’ before. Still kicking it Remote Nursing Style tho 😊. #NewProfilePic

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

Always Was Tonight employed satire to hold a mirror up to Australia, reflecting both historical truths and present-day manifestations of colonisation. Anger directed at the program is not at the satire itself, but shame upon recognising one’s own reflection in the mirror it holds

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

@RavenZech2 @grok Eythylmercury or methylmercury?
Thimerosal which contains traces of the non harmful ethylmercury was removed for all childhood vaccines in Australia - 2000 and the USA - 2001. Due to public concern resulting from antivaxer misinformation.
Also it was NEVER in the MMR vaccine.

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

@e_simpson31 @RealMarkLatham And me ‘pal’, have a lovely evening 😊

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

@e_simpson31 @RealMarkLatham You can say what ever you like and when you do so in a public forum other people have the right to respond. So yes I dare to exercise my right to say what’s on my mind, a right that you apparently support. Or does that right only apply to you?

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

@e_simpson31 @RealMarkLatham I get that you are just trolling but there were no boots in the pictures Mark took, Just women dressed in professional attire and trying to not be objectified and secretly photographed in their workplace. I right everyone has. And it wouldn’t matter what they were wearing anyway.

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

What about the Australians suffering the worst electricity insecurity in the country?
Remote Communities in the NT where electricity is prepaid, 91% of homes experienced at least 1 disconnection per year and 74% had their power disconnected more than 10 times over the same period

[Jim Chalmers MP @JEChalmers]

Three hours of free electricity a day, under Labor.

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

I appreciate that this is on brand for Mark but a bit rich coming from the guy who argued his right to privacy over his 2006 attack on a photographer and who in 2025 doesn’t extend the same right to privacy to his female colleagues in the chamber photographing them covertly.

[Real Mark Latham @RealMarkLatham]

Down here on assignment.
First time at these Surry Hills police stations.
Scene of the great Nathalie Matthews humiliation when released from her jail cell on serious revenge porn charges.
Wonderful TV footage.
She brought the police and media into her world (for absolutely no valid reason) and then herself paid the price.
Big mistake. Huge.

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

@troycassardaley I recon the croc isn’t that big it’s just that that boat is tiny. As you can see, it is only capable of carrying 3 brain cells at a time.

Looks like they are up this way - really not keen on answering the 000 call that seems inevitable if they continue like this 😂

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

@pm4pmIV Hey! It will be a gentle return to start with as I juggle work and life too. But I will be here when I can. The build up making us all tired atm and of course when the nurses are tired - que the outbreak of a virus which inevitably we all catch 😊

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

So, I took a year off. Back now.
A year of working, time in Edinburgh sharing and learning with other clinicians who work in extreme medicine topped off with some writing. Also more family/personal crisis than one needs in a year. But I’m back baby, look out! What did I miss? 😂

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

@RealMarkLatham @MikeCarlton01 I would have thought that it was actually the role of elected members to NOT ignore members of the Australian public. You know - the whole representative democracy thing.
Definitely not the flex you thought that was.

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

I read the ‘paper’ not a paper but a submission from a lobby group with terrible references from other lobby groups and opinion pieces from newspapers. Academically not a piece of balanced literature.
But I try to keep an open mind and so I asked some midwives if in fact some late term abortions do result in a live birth that is then left to die and they tell me that although it is rare, both have seen it at least once in their careers.
I have given it some thought tonight and I think my position is that; it is a woman’s right to choose to carry a pregnancy or not, however in the instance of a foetus that is viable, the resulting child should become a ward of the state, receive appropriate medical treatment and be put up for adoption. So in essence any abortion beyond 24 weeks would need to include signing a document to that effect - signing over any parental rights to allow for adoption.
The fact is that the vast majority of terminations occur before a foetus is viable and regardless of the viability, no woman should be forced to carry a child to term against her will or if it may damage her health to do so - ever.

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

@Melissa10081119 @frankfort63 @steveando1975 @Peter_Fitz You can’t report the numbers of something that does not exist.
There is NO SUCH THING as a “live birth abortion” 🤦🏽‍♀️

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Everyone wants to lock up a 10 year old

Until it’s their 10 year old

But those making these decisions know it will never be their 10 year old

Ask Aboriginal parents what it’s like parenting Aboriginal kids.

They have to teach them to “make themselves small (Cassius Turvey’s mum); “be weary of police”-all the things that shouldn’t be a concern for children

But here we are

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

Gov says under 16 years old - not mature enough for social media.
Yet all Australian jurisdictions apart from the ACT allow 10 year olds to be incarcerated.
The NT has taken a small step for government but a giant leap for mankind - BACKWARDS.
With presumption of remand over bail increasing in several states also.
My question is simple; even for those ok with incarcerating 10 yr old children, how do you feel about incarceration of 10 yr old children who are then found to have been innocent?
What if it were your child?
How would your 10 yr old baby cope with being separated from you, locked up, kept in a cell for up to 22 hrs a day, away from school, family, friends and a prime target for much older inmates?

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Boy has my blocking function had a massive workout today.
Good morning to those of you who have empathy for 10 yr old children who -87% have not been convicted of a crime and spend an average of 71 days in prison without conviction on remand. When they get in front of a magistrate most are found innocent of a crime.
And around 93% have post traumatic stress but Govts don’t do basic mental health screening when they come to prison.
Most of these kids being thrown in prison who are innocent of crimes are Indigenous but “youth crime epidemic; Aboriginal people can’t parent our kids blah blah blah”
Oh and they are also regularly isolated for up to 22 hrs in their prison cells and self harm as a result-but all good -let’s throw em in a boot camp too.
As for the parents ask Cleveland Dodd’s parents and many other ABORIGINAL parents who desperately tried for the system to release their kids who are ON REMAND-ie NOT CONVICTED of a crime.
But-no; no racism here. It’s all about Aboriginal people being more likely than white people to be criminals-no police have ever racially profiled an Aboriginal person-ever…pity the stats say the complete opposite of that fantasy.

Have a lovely Sunday -those who have compassion for babies being put in prison

The rest of you will just be blocked so enjoy your 30 seconds of posting racist nonsense

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

@LettersfromTim You were informed by a litany of intentional lies and mistruths designed to protect people’s political reelection prospects. I respect the result - because I am acutely aware that our country is divided along party lines and the assumption that ‘their side’ wouldn’t mislead them.

[Beck Thompson @BlaktruthBeck]

@MetallicTroll @OMGTheMess I never actually said that I agreed nor disagreed with the policy.