Nessa Turnbull-Roberts
@TurnbullVanessa
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Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People. Author, Advocate, Lawyer. Fulbright scholar. Here for a better world❤️✊🏾
Gadigal Country, Sydney
Joined July 2014
It is with so much joy and excitement to share with you all the official cover & Now offering Pre-Orders for my Book “Long Yarn Short”.
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Solidarity with Māori Party MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke who rose to her feet inside the New Zealand parliamentary chamber and began to perform a haka and ripped up the piece of legislation that is currently dividing the nation. This is the strength of Indigenous people✊🏾
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We are globally in some scary times, but I know one thing. That’s love and humanity, action and change. I worry for the recent news in our country regarding our children and young people. The time for action is now, we can’t wait. Our children cannot wait!
Protecting Indigenous youth from institutionalisation. At 10-years-old @TurnbullVanessa was forcibly removed from her home. 16 years later, she advocates for and protects the voices of Indigenous youth through her role as Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People. Learn more about her extraordinary work by watching her full speech from #OYW24:
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The monarchy committed the first acts of domestic, family and sexual violence. Both on land and people. Stole our children. Displaced our people. Still has the bones of our ancestors. That alone sends shivers.
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However you choose to box Senator; you can never deny her strength and contribution for all our people.
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I just finished being in the youth prison. My youngest Aboriginal child is 12 years old. This is unacceptable. If we can raise the age for technology we can absolute ensure no child or young person is locked up in prisons.
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RT @suigenerisjen: We did it. 14 years of legal battles and we are finally taking him home to Australia to be reunited with @Stella_Assange…
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RT @FAREAustralia: FARE CEO @catgiorgi, @VicHealth CEO @SandroDemaio, @DRWaus Chair @Lizzie_OShea and Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torre…
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RT @FAREAustralia: @TurnbullVanessa says we need to focus on the mechanisms that drive young people to use harmful products, instead of bla…
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RT @mike_salter: In Canberra today for the domestic violence crisis roundtable - with @TurnbullVanessa and Regan Mitchell
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Change requires all of us and I can’t wait to take you on this yarn, in the book, the streets, the conference room, court room and all things in between. How goods a long yarn short.. you know them ones where it it was meant to be 10 minutes… but really. Story of my life..
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I come from the longest, living and still existing culture in the world. I’m proud of that, and I hope you can be too. We are storytellers, suriviors, healers and love nothing more than connection.
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I wouldn’t have survived running away from that system had it not been for your arms, spirit and connection to make this place better.
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The little people are our future, and I hope as adults we can merge into the love of never being silent for or on them, their rights, their safety, their future and their lives. I give gratitude to my ancestors and all who have supported, mentored and showed me love.
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RT @KZiwica: “Aboriginal women and families continue to be subject to the most horrific forms of violence. And when reaching out for suppor…
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