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Nakari Thorpe

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Presenter & Indigenous Communities Reporter @abcnews | Ambassador @fredhollows | Gunnai Gunditjmara Gooreng Gooreng | RT/likes ≠ endorsement

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A 24-year-old disabled Aboriginal man from the remote Yuendumu community has died after he was restrained by police at a supermarket in Alice Springs, Central Australia aje.io/mp5q5i

A 24-year-old disabled Aboriginal man from the remote Yuendumu community has died after he was restrained by police at a supermarket in Alice Springs, Central Australia aje.io/mp5q5i
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A 24-year-old disabled Aboriginal man has died after allegedly being restrained by police inside a supermarket in Alice Springs. The man’s grandfather Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves has released a statement “demanding answers and justice”. SBS News NITV sbs.com.au/news/video/nt-…

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The full statement from Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves. “He needed support and not to be criminalised because of his disability.”

The full statement from Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves. 

“He needed support and not to be criminalised because of his disability.”
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"The town's at breaking point and there's so much sadness and chaos happening around Alice Springs." Senior leader Michael Liddle says the town of Alice Springs is 'at breaking point' after the death in custody of a 24-year-old Warlpiri man. abc.net.au/news/2025-05-2…

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Hundreds have gathered for a vigil outside a Coles supermarket in Mparntwe/Alice Springs where a 24-year-old disabled Warlpiri man died in police custody earlier this week. nit.com.au/30-05-2025/182…

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In an emotional vigil in Alice Springs, Warlpiri elders say now is the time for truth, encouraging witnesses of a young man's death in custody at a local supermarket to come forward. The 24yo died after he was restrained by police following an altercation abc.net.au/news/2025-05-3…

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Kumanjayi White, a vulnerable young Warlpiri man with a disability, is dead in Reconciliation Week, at 24 years old. Yet it's almost 35 years since the Royal Commission into Black deaths in custody, and the country is so far behind, something must change abc.net.au/news/2025-05-3…

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Crowds gathered for candlelit vigil in Sydney after death in custody of a young Warlpiri man in Alice Springs last week. Kumanjayi White's family said he was vulnerable, had disabilities and lived away from home because he needed supported accommodation abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…

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3 June marks Mabo Day. A day that commemorates Mer Island man Eddie Koiki Mabo and his successful efforts to overturn the legal fiction of terra nullius, or ‘land belonging to no one’. 📌Learn more: reconciliation.org.au/commemorating-… #Reconciliation #NRW2025 #BridgingNowtoNext

3 June marks Mabo Day. A day that commemorates Mer Island man Eddie Koiki Mabo and his successful efforts to overturn the legal fiction of terra nullius, or ‘land belonging to no one’. 

📌Learn more: reconciliation.org.au/commemorating-… 

#Reconciliation #NRW2025 #BridgingNowtoNext
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A former Coles supermarket worker in Alice Springs says it was clear an Aboriginal man who died in police custody at the supermarket last week had a disability and needed extra support. 24-year-old Kumanjayi White died after police officers restrained him abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…

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"We can't go on like this, we can't live like this. My jaja [grandson] was killed for no good reason." Hundreds of people have come together at vigils in Alice Springs & interstate to mourn Kumanjayi White & demand "justice" 10 days on from the his death abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…

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Another death in custody is being investigated by NT police after an Indigenous man died at Royal Darwin Hospital on Saturday. The 68yo had been in ICU since May 30, having earlier been "taken into protective custody" by AFP officers at Darwin airport. abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…

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An Aboriginal man who died after police prevented him from boarding a flight was a senior Wadeye Elder who lobbied for bilingual schooling and better education funding for his community. nit.com.au/09-06-2025/184…

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Indigenous legal services say the prime minister is "missing in action" and should convene a national cabinet meeting over rising Aboriginal incarceration rates and deaths in custody abc.net.au/news/2025-06-1…

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The remains of 10 Indigenous Australian ancestors that were kept in Japanese institutional collections have been returned to their traditional custodians. nit.com.au/12-06-2025/185…

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Tane Chatfield died by hanging in Tamworth correctional centre in 2017. He had been on remand for two years, awaiting trial, and innocent in the eyes of the law. He was placed into a cell that had an obvious hanging point. It should not have been there. theguardian.com/australia-news…

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Songs Inside is a music workshop program working with women in prisons, helping them access creative outlets and find purpose. A documentary telling their story has just won a prize at Sydney Film Festival. ab.co/4n1GeTl

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More than 3000 people are expected to join the final day of a 500km walk to mark the closure of Australia's first formal truth-telling process. The 4-year Aboriginal-led inquiry will become Victoria's longest-ever state-run royal commission ending June 30 abc.net.au/news/2025-06-1…

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WA Police has disciplined an officer who pushed a man to the ground in Broome earlier this year but will not release details of what action has been taken. It’s Internal Affairs Division began investigating the matter in February when video emerged online abc.net.au/news/2025-06-1…

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Bobbi was denied access to an Aboriginal midwifery program in her last pregnancy – and nearly lost her life Indigenous women report experiencing racism, inadequate care and lack of consent in maternity wards and are 3x more likely to die during childbirth theguardian.com/australia-news…