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Journalist & presenter of @guardianaus daily news podcast Full Story. Previously @thefeedsbs @nitv Ngiyampaa Wailwan ♥️🖤💛 Laura.Murphy-Oates@theguardian.com
May 24, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
Feels like the right time for me to bring up a panel a former workplace/ media org asked me to do on "Indigenous identity" that changed my career and is part of why I stopped working in TV 1/9 My bosses wanted a strong conservative voice (who I won't name) on the panel, which I objected to, but they put them on anyway. When I objected again they said it was too late - flights were booked. So I spent days researching, making sure I had answers to any tricky topics 2/9
Apr 8, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
This is a powerful episode & is part of the update to the Guardian's Deaths Inside database by Lorena @callapilla & @NickEvershed . Every person in this country should read the below article, but I'll thread some key facts below theguardian.com/australia-news… According to our analysis, Indigenous people who died in custody were more likely to not have been charged with any crime ( with 54% of deaths occuring while on remand, in protective custody, or while being arrested or pursued)