This is MY MUM I used to see her hiding behind trees in the laneway watching my brother & I at lunch time at school Not long ago I realized why she did that She was terrified we would be taken away This is every
#Aboriginal
#TorresStraitIsander
#Womens
#Mum
fear
#MeToo
#Genocide
5/5 At the end of the trip, Mohamed thanked me. I gave him my card for if he wanted to know more.
Today, I received this message from Mohamed.
The last few days have been so hard, but this message has given me hope again
#voteyes
#UluruStatementfromtheHeart
As Aboriginal women we never stop fighting 4 our kids our freedom&lives. Kerri Anne every one of us at the March fight everyday on a national scale BUT u only chose to see us & speak about us when it benefits u to dehumanize us
#studio
-10
@DjirraVIC
YES I want change
YES its time to make a difference
YES its time to be heard
YES it’s time for truth
YES its time for a more equitable future
YES This this is a new chapter not the final word
YES this is about trust
YES it’s time to
#VoteYesAustralia
#VoteYes
#itstime
The
@ulurustatement
is an invitation to ALL people in this country to
#unite
Its an invitation to step forward to walk with us to set us in a new direction for future generations.
As an Aboriginal woman, I know this is where we need to go. Pls don’t be silent
#VoteYes2023
This is me at 10yrs old with my brothers Shaun (left) and Ryan (middle)
#MeAtTen
. Aboriginal kids belong in their communities thriving in culture and identity not behind bars. Join us in calling on govts across the country to
#RaiseTheAge
of criminal responsibility 🖤💛❤️
We are so proud of Terri our very first
#Aboriginallawyer
to be admitted to practice while working
@DjirraVIC
. We invest in
#Aboriginalwomen
in everyway Terri wearing our
#possumskincloak
made by our elders ❤️ and with the wonderful Kate another great lawyer working with us ❤️
**MEDIA STATEMENT
The Opposition Leader
@PeterDutton_MP
must stop politicising Aboriginal women & children's safety & listen to
@DjirraVIC
& the many other orgs working at the frontline for more than 20yrs
NO to more Royal Commissions YES to hearing our solutions
The power of listening to our voices. When you listen, informed decisions are made 👇🏿
Mohamed told me he was voting NO when I first stepped into his uber - I knew that this was going to be an interesting hour long journey & then THIS TEXT MESSAGE the next day 🖤💛❤️
#VoteYes
This is me and my two brothers 👇🏿
We are Aboriginal. Growing up we were targeted by police - criminalized. Kids - belong in community with our family and thriving in culture - not in prison.
#RaiseTheAge
to at least 14
@DjirraVIC
@Change_Record
#MeAt13
Why I am voting
#Yes
“Aboriginal women’s safety has not been prioritised by governments – we have been sidelined, shut out and excluded.
I am voting YES so that our voices are heard and our experiences inform the policies that impact on our lives.”
#YES23
#VoteYesAustralia
We’re so thrilled that our Co-Chair – Cobble Cobble and South Sea Islander woman and international human rights lawyer
@mdavisqlder
– has won the Powerhouse category of the
@marieclaireau
2023 Women of the Year Awards.
Self represented Bail denied, Dead in prison in less than 2 days. The family deserves answers. Prisons are violent and unsafe. Women inside are fearing for their lives. Free them now so they can be with their families
@IndigenousX
@DjirraVIC
@MerikiKO
Colonisation did not just happen at a point in time. Children taken, women murdered, our people treated as sub human.
It’s still happening
I want change.
I want a new chapter.
I want to be heard.
I am voting
#YES2023
Too many of my school teachers told me I’d never amount to anything ..... I bet they didn’t get to the UN to call out governments breaches of
#humanrights
.....
#BLM
#BelieveInYourself
Courtney Ugle is a star on the footy field. But there is much more to her hard-won strength than meets the eye.
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this story contains images of people who have died.
#Indigenous
#AFLW
Thoughts are with Natalina's four siblings after their sister's alleged murder.
#countingdeadwomen
Chinatown murder accused was released from inpatient facility a week ago via
@theage
Bailed for killing an Aboriginal woman. Yet bail is refused for an Aboriginal woman who shoplifts (and then she dies in prison) When will our lives be valued. When will we be safe in our own country
@DjirraVIC
#veronicanelsonwalker
#MsDhu
THREAD 1/4 I changed a NO VOTERS MIND to
#Yes
in 15 mins with speaking OUR TRUTH at the polling booth while waiting for family to vote
#YES
She challenged me & I answered questions. I thanked her & sent her in her way to vote. Inviting her to come and see me after 14/10.
3/5 I asked WHY and this is what I heard
Aboriginal people don’t want it.
It will divide the county.
My conversion with him was over an hour. I explained that 80% of our people want a voice.
#VoteYes23
She nailed it 👇🏿 I was forced out of school at 15 .....the only job I was worthy of was detailing cars ...... I returned to do my law degree when I was 30 .... shit was not given to me or my brothers ... or my mum and dad ....
We never want to see kids unsafe. There are no words for this tragedy I’m am tired of seeing our women, mothers blamed before questions asked. Let’s ask where are services when needed & funding in community to support mums.
#budget2019
@IndigenousX
@JennaPrice
Once upon a time we had to sign away our Aboriginality to have any rights in this country AND today we have to prove it and again it’s the ‘white authorities’ holding the power - the investigation.
Today, I stood with many others in the Victorian Aboriginal
community Controlled sector, calling for change. The
@ulurustatement
is an invitation for the Australian people to walk with us. It’s simple,
#VoteYes
to recognize us and hear us
@janine_coombs
#VoteYES23Australia
My
#mum
painted this for me about 20 yrs ago I was finishing my LLB & thinking about my direction - I knew deep down there was something more for me AND I think Mum while painting this with each stroke of the brush & every dot sensed what my direction was to be
@DjirraVIC
I am an Aboriginal woman and I am done with being viewed through a deficit lens……. I want change. I want my mum to see this change - my mum has endured so much and feared more than other women, mothers in this country could ever imagine. We must
#VoteYesAustralia
1/2 THREAD I am so sad but I feel strong in knowing that I did all I could possibly do to change the narrative.
The NO lies and misinformation prevails
The NO games prevails
The NO divide prevails
NO doesn’t get to mourn our people
Racism is not just in sport
@DjirraVIC
received objections to opening our new office just outside of Melb - we don’t want Indigenous drinking problem.
I think u are the problem mate! by the way we have been here since the beginning of time
#racism
2/5 When I got into his car, I asked him if he wanted more information about the Referendum and he said NO and that he will be voting NO along with his family and community.
#VoteYes
Correction - BUT great news! Terri is the 3rd
#Aboriginallawyer
to gain admission while working
@DjirraVIC
We have also had Natalie (our MILDURA lawyer). And me too - I was the first 🙄😳 OMG exhaustion!
We are so proud of Terri our very first
#Aboriginallawyer
to be admitted to practice while working
@DjirraVIC
. We invest in
#Aboriginalwomen
in everyway Terri wearing our
#possumskincloak
made by our elders ❤️ and with the wonderful Kate another great lawyer working with us ❤️
There are so many who are suffering in silence&isolated -I dropped food on a naturestrip yesterday for an
#Aboriginalmum
who has 5 kids. all sick & being tested . The fear on her mums face palpable. She won’t see your messages here but i can pass them on ❤️❤️
@DjirraVIC
Tonight, as part of the
@safestepsFV
Candlelight Vigil we light a candle for every Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander woman who has died as a result of family violence.
#LightACandle2021
Tonight, as part of the
@safestepsFV
Candlelight Vigil we light a candle for every Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander woman who has died as a result of family violence.
#LightACandle2021
So this happened today. I have my name set in stone in
#melton
where I have lived for most of my life. Local Women Paving The Way. I am deeply honoured to be named with such amazing and inspiring women out here in the west
@DjirraVIC
#melton
#west
#localwomenpavingtgeway
THREAD
1/7
@DjirraVIC
always was and always will be a
#YES
.
YES to Aboriginal women’s safety.
YES to Aboriginal women’s voice and visibility.
YES to Aboriginal women’s self-determination.
YES to Aboriginal women informing government policy and laws.
I am so grateful & excited to share the success of my app in receiving a
#churchillfellowship
to speak with First Nations women from different parts of the world to inform the establishment of a business model for
@DjirraVIC
expansion
@ChurchillTrust
Anyone who put up their head for “Yes” was brutalised. We were labelled communists, greedy elites, puppets of the United Nations and promoters of a racially divided Australia. None of this is true.
@DjirraVIC
Violence against
#Aboriginalwomenandchildren
is a national emergency that is true. Our women exp violence at the hands of men frm many different backgrounds. the white system govt perpetuates it. We have been calling for investment
@NationalFVPLS
no $ since 2014 from federalgovt
So many of our people have made a life long commitment to reach this moment in time. A successful
#Referendum
will bring us together and will be a big turning point for all of us
Please
#WriteYes
#voteyes
#YES
It couldn’t be simpler. “No leaves us nowhere, yes breathes in new air. That’s why I’m voting yes.” 👏🏽 Join Australian music legend Paul Kelly in sharing your support for a better future today!
#VoteYes
#VoiceToParliament
#HistoryIsCalling
How special My mum did this especially for me. The detail - dragonfly because that’s our dreaming, the Women’s spirit, the Dilly Bag significant to Aboriginal women, shells because I’m a saltwater girl. I will treasure
#kukuyalanji
#mum
❤️
...family violence lives in every community. Violence against women happens in Fitzroy North and western Sydney, just as it happens in FitzroyCrossing and the WesternKimberleys. Aboriginal communities are NOT more violent
@NationalFVPLS
@DjirraVIC
Our
@DjirraVIC
head office on Hoddle street in Abbotsford
History is calling
Djirra says
#Yes
We know well over 100,000 people commute on this busy arterial everyday
Grab a selfie or snap a shot and tag me and
@DjirraVIC
on socials if you see it
Parents next is financial abuse by the government. It targets women, single mums and First Nations women. This plan must abolish it. It must do away with punitive programs now
#WomensSafetySummit
@NationalFVPLS
@DjirraVIC
Pads and tampons are just as essential as toilet paper and soap.
So from this week, we'll start supplying them in our public schools – free of charge.
It's an Australian first. And it's the right thing to do.
We hear on the ground that our people want a
#Voice
We want to feed our solutions into government and this will make a practical difference on the ground.
Enough is enough - non Aboriginal people on high paying salaries DO NOT KNOW WHATS BEST FOR US
#VoteYes
Thank you to the Day family for their advocacy on abolishing
#publicdrunkeness
Your strength and resilience in such devastating circumstances is acknowledged 🖤💛❤️ Now it’s time for all governments to act and implement all other recs from the
#RCIADIC
@koorimailnews
@DjirraVIC
This is not about political preference, it’s about about the people of this country
#Yes23
It’s about finally recognizing us and walking with us and feeling privileged in doing so
#VoteYes23
#VoteYes
This NAIDOC Week we honour Antoinette Braybrook, a 2020 Victorian Honour Roll of Women inductee. An Aboriginal woman born on Wurundjeri country, Antoinette is a lawyer who gives a voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who experience family violence.
#HonourHer
She was born
In the river land
Born of her mother, into her mother's hands
She was free, as the river was wild
She was so innocent,
Such a beautiful child
Then they took her away
From Paradise
Where everything was beautiful
And very nice
Vale Archie Roach
With Ruby now ❤️
We are the oldest continuous culture in the world-on white evidence 65,000yrs. Today 60,000 people stood with us on
#Naarm
@yes23
walk. We can do this together-side by side and listening 🖤💛❤️
@DjirraVIC
🧵Today is the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
#IDERD2023
. ‘Harmony Day’ was created by the Howard Government - the focus on ‘harmony’ diverts attention from the
#IDERD
and the devastating impact racism has on our people
#Abolishharmonyday