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Correspondent #SouthAustralia @SBSNews | via @abcnews Got a story? [email protected] | views my own.

Tarntanya | Adelaide
Joined February 2010
PM announces Indigenous Voice Referendum for October 14 at a Yes campaign on #Kaurna country, Adelaide. An emotional day for many @SBSNews
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“I am down but I will get back up. And you can come at me again and I will meet you with the love of my people.” Stan Grant delivers a powerful message on Q+A before taking a break from the media. #StanGrant #QandA #WeStandWithStan
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Thanks @SBSNews @petadoherty @StaynerThomas for covering whats happening in #Xinjiang (Glad it's not wall to wall royal coverage everywhere)
#Adelaide's Uighur community rallies at Parliament House demanding action after reports Muslim minority groups are starving to death in China's #Covid lockdown. fb.watch/fxcKQ-u8jo/ via @SBSNews @SophieHRW @Sophiemcneill @meclarke114 @KathLanders #Uyghurs
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Life in the firing line. Civilians who live and work in the Woomera missile testing range’s “prohibited area”. Via colleague @petadoherty (with some photos from me). #defence #space #rockets #wpa #auspol
Meet the Australian farmers tending to sheep and dodging rockets as they work on land the government uses to test missiles. bit.ly/3xFgHI3
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Coming to you live from the great state of South Australia with the latest on the state election aftermath + federal implications. 📺 Tune in @SBSNews 6.30pm with @petadoherty . ✌🏽
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Voters have also gone to the polls in the South Australian state election. @petadoherty @ShubaSKrishnan #SAVotes #Auspol
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A record number of people in South Australia have cast their ballots in advance, with more than 303,000 people pre-poll and postal voting and this may be the reason why… @SBSNews #savotes
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With just a few days until parliament returns furious negotiations are taking place over the Federal Government's plans to require voters to bring identification to the polling booth. Whether the changes go ahead will rest with the Upper House. @ShubaSKrishnan explains.
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#BREAKING Southern Tasmania, including Hobart, entering a snap three-day lockdown from 6pm tonight. @s_maunder will have the latest from Tas tonight. @SBSNews
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The state’s upper house has backed Fella’s Bill, named after Wayne Fella Morrison who died after being made to wear a spit hood by prison guards in 2016. Via @petadoherty sbs.com.au/nitv/content/sout…
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What a moving coincidence that Didar in Persian/Dari/Urdu means ‘to see’!
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In 2012 I started working in the Community Detention Program in the sth east suburbs of Melbourne. Over the 4 years I saw the Dandenong area grow into a thriving multicultural hub. The Afghan people are kind & generous people, & are a wonderful addition to any cummunity
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I've had three young Taliban fighters ask me today whether I can get them to Australia. Not the kind of thing I expected to hear two weeks after victory in a 20 year war.
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South Australia becomes the fourth state to pass voluntary assisted dying laws. Yay! What a win for people power. Over to you Qld & NSW. @vadsaorg @gogentle_aus
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The front page of The World section in today’s @washingtonpost looks at the Australian struggle for justice for people like @latoya_aroha ‘s brother Wayne, who died in custody
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AND JUST LIKE THAT The termination of Pregnancy Bill 2020 in it amended form from HOA passes on voices, quite anti climactic in the Leg Co however 6 years of work behind the scenes we are leaping form our seats in joy!
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