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[ABC News @abcnews]

#BREAKING: Western Australian police are searching for a 10-year-old girl who has been missing from Perth for three days.https://t.co/37EFwAlKlp

[Wazza from Melbourne @Melbourne_says]

Confirmed: The president of the Victorian RSL says that Welcome to Country will be back in 2027 at the dawn service. 👏🏼

The president highlighted that the few who made a noise didn't even stay for the service.

Good wins again! ✊🏼

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Indigenous Australians fought and died for this country in two world wars. Even though they were not allowed to vote.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

I received this message via Instagram DM this week:

“G’Day. I listened to your dialogue on ‘Conversations’ last week… As a retired Mental Health Nurse [NZ Scotland WA] I found your comments interesting… I note you state you are a ‘Proud Nyamal Woman.’ I would remind you half of your genes came from your SCOTTISH FATHER… This, I would suggest is where you gained your inspiration, passion, self belief, and psychological stamina to achieve your goals. Why do you not acknowledge this but always push the indigenous barrel??”

I’m sharing this not because it’s unusual. I’m sharing it because it’s not.

Aboriginal people are the only cultural group in this country whose identity is routinely challenged, questioned, and policed by strangers. If I told you I was Greek, you’d say “that’s great, tell me about it.” If I told you I was Italian, you’d ask where my family was from. But when I say I’m a proud Nyamal woman, I get asked: “Yeah, but how Aboriginal are you?”

This person listened to a single radio interview and decided he knew enough to tell me that my achievements come from my “Scottish side” — not from the culture, community, and identity that has shaped every part of who I am and the work I do. He didn’t just question my identity. He ranked it. He decided which half of me was worth something.

Let me be clear about something. No one gets to allocate where my strength comes from. No one gets to divide me into the parts they’re comfortable with and discard the rest. And no one gets to tell me that I’m “pushing the Indigenous barrel” for being proud of who I am.

This is what identity-policing looks like. It’s not always overt racism. Sometimes it comes wrapped in “I found your comments interesting” and a suggestion that you should be grateful for the “right genes”.

Aboriginal people deal with this constantly. We are asked to justify, quantify, and prove our identity in ways that no other culture in this country is subjected to. And it has real consequences — it undermines cultural identity, it isolates people from community, and it reinforces the very assimilation mindset that once required my mother to attend court in Port Hedland in 1964 just to obtain a citizenship certificate in her own country.

I spoke about this exact issue in conversation with Stan Grant at the Sydney Opera House. The fact that I received this message the same week I posted that video on my platforms tells you everything about how far we still have to go.

I am a proud Nyamal woman. That is not a barrel I push. It is who I am.
#AboriginalIdentity #IndigenousAustralia #CulturalIdentity #IdentityPolicing #FirstNations #AboriginalPride

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

ICE IS STILL HOLDING 3 GUYS FROM MY TRIBE.

THE OGLALA LAKOTA NATION.

YES, ICE IS GOING AFTER NATIVE AMERICANS NOW.

[JansLife @JanetsLife_]

Taraji P. Henson as Janet Jackson for Halloween. #JanetJackson

[Chiefo 🪖 @Master_Chiefo]

Cooked for @Crochetelo_

Check out the live version at https://t.co/OFi6I44CHB

We continue to do more 🚀

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The 'ridiculous' $1,000 weekly shop for remote Cape York community - ABC News
This needs more coverage than it receives.
These communities are being taken advantage of every single day with the price of food and living out of control. https://t.co/hmPKRJ6qLH

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!

WATCH: Dr Tracy Westerman AM, Founder & Chair of Jilya, introduce the inaugural Jilya Indigenous Psychology Conference — a powerful gathering of voices, stories, and solutions led by Indigenous psychologists supported by the Dr Tracy Westerman Indigenous Psychology Scholarship Program 🖤💛❤️
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📅 5 December 2025
📍 Perth, WA
This landmark event will showcase game-changing presentations.
This is more than a conference — it’s a movement.

https://t.co/WMeMwNrGgy

Only 200 seats left -many sold at pre sale! Don’t miss out!

#JilyaConference2025 #IndigenousPsychology #DrTracyWesterman #AboriginalExcellence
#MentalHealthMatters

[Shaboozey @ShaboozeysJeans]

As of August 2025 there are only 177 certified diamond songs in the history of the RIAA & Because of y’all I have one of em…and that’s freakin’ wild! Thank you!

[Buzzing Pop @BuzzingPop]

Cardi B becomes the first woman to have Janet Jackson featured on an album.

[Dr Josie McSkimming @JosieMcskimming]

‘Residents are "horrified" after a property developer copped a "slap on the wrist" fine for illegally clearing hundreds of trees in a native wildlife corridor to build his dream 6 bedroom, 8 bathroom mansion in Sydney's south, without approval.’
What?? https://t.co/iaDabBrP3a

[Miss Polly 🖤💛❤️ @MissPolly62]

Gough Whitlam was a legendary man, and his legacy will live on forever.

[Snoop Dogg @SnoopDogg]

We ready!!! @AFL c yall next month

[Patrick Mills AM @Patty_Mills]

We're taking one ball to every outdoor court in the Hawaiian Islands before the season starts.

Impossible? Maybe. But Eddie would go.

Follow the journey. Every shot adds mana, every stop tells a story.

@HawaiiMBB #RootsAndReach

[Nakari Thorpe @nakarithorpe]

A 15yo Aboriginal boy subject to a child protection order died by suicide in a residential care home south of Brisbane last weekend.

Advocates are calling for his death to be investigated by an inquiry into the state's "broken" child protection system https://t.co/iuckAD3TGh

[Nakari Thorpe @nakarithorpe]

NT Police say the cause of Kumanjayi White's death remains "undetermined" more than 2 months after he died in police custody at an Alice Springs supermarket

He died after restrained by plain-clothed officers following an alleged confrontation with guards https://t.co/IopELAOQ4k

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

How do you close the gap in Indigenous suicides and mental health?
Identify the unacceptable gaps and fix them…you would think.
Mental health is not even in the close the gap targets.
How has something so fundamental to closing the gap not being achieved?
Your best opportunity of reducing the burden of disease as defined by the World Health Organisation is to “define the problem”-as your first activity.

So if you haven’t defined the problem, then there is no problem.
How can you close a gap if you’re not even measuring a gap?
So how have I through my personal business addressed these unacceptable and critical gaps?
The first is that I designed the first clinically and culturally validated screening tool for at risk Aboriginal people via my PhD in the year 2003.

The second is that I published the first paper on Indigenous youth mental health and suicide behaviours prevalence.

This has all been done through funding it myself.
A sad reality when these two issues are so vital to closing the gap for our highest risk communities.

https://t.co/MZSMiZdHE5

[Nakari Thorpe @nakarithorpe]

A coroner has found the death in custody of Heather Calgaret was the preventable result of inappropriately prescribed medication

The coroner found the doctor who prescribed buprenorphine should have done more to ensure she could tolerate the dose https://t.co/KpL5h0itrx