Blak MPs give First Nations women hope we might be listened to

‘The fact that we now have 10 First Nations members of federal parliament, and more in state and territory governments, means we are inspiring the confidence of the communities we live in.’ Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

I am writing this article after a week in isolation with Covid, two years of the pandemic, nine years of a Coalition government and over 250 years of colonisation, dispossession and First Nations’ resistance. I, like many of you, am tired. But I am also hopeful and determined that now is the time for change.

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