Thread by @iMusing

there is no data on Aboriginal and Tortes Strait Islander women so your report is jeopardised - Veronica Gorrie👏🏼👏🏼 #QandA

and what about police violence, says Gorrie. Aboriginal women are falsely identified as perpetrators by police.

This happened to my niece. She was thrown in the wagon - it was a wake - and driven 90 kms away “for her safety”. She was terrified. They could have killed her.

it’s because they don’t give a shit about us they do not care about Aboriginal women - Gorrie.
Yes it is.
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we can do our own survey and solve our own problems - Gorrie #QandA

you’re brought into this world Black and broke due to colonisation - Gorrie. What about people on cashless debit card? They have no cash to spend. Is that in the report?Summers: no.
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“your book too”👀#QandA

Indue. And #ParentsNext. And the Family Court. It is abusive.

Yes indeed. Are we not going to mention patriarchy? #QandA

“my hope for the national plan”.

We should talk about more than hope - Trioli. #QandA

Summers: governments could put the sole parent payment back up to at least the single aged pension rate right now. And #RaiseTheRate
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Gorrie: does your recommendations include taking single Aboriginal mothers off the Indue card?
Summers: no.
Aly: the Labor government is abolishing the Indue card.
Gorrie: when?
Aly: it is in train.
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Gorrie: the Labor government should defund the police, and put that money back into community. And defund prisons. Right now, the WA government is moving Aboriginal children into an adult prison. That is happening right now #QandA

and on what the WA government is doing to incarcerated Blak children as we speak.

https://twitter.com/JacyntaKrakouer/status/1544934289993007105

Trioli: what is a bad victim?
Gorrie: we’re not the right kind of victim because we’re not the white victim. White is right right.
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what are the settings that your community need?
Gorrie: We don’t call police because we know one of us will be arrested. We call family. The policy settings should be more funding for Aboriginal organisations, like Djirra.
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Djirra donations here

djirra.org.au

speculative anecdata about potential future violence that did not happen, for television audience consumption.
Gorrie: but is that proven?
[A: no]
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what should we do?
Gorrie: give victims more money. Set them up to succeed and not to fail.
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