The Latest Breaking News from Thomas Mayor

Afternoon Update: Nationals spark Indigenous voice row; Daryl Maguire charged; and China’s escalating protests

Voice campaigners say the Nationals are ‘out of touch’ with regional Australia

The Guardian - AU · Nov 29, 2022

National party ‘out of touch’ with regional Australia on Indigenous voice, campaigner says

Thomas Mayor has spent 18 months travelling around the country speaking about the Uluru statement and says rural people agree with it

The Guardian - AU · Nov 29, 2022

AEC embarks on mailbag trial to close remote community voting gap

The AEC is poised to test an expansion of its powers in a bid to enrol thousands of First Nations people missing from the electoral role within remote communities.

ABC News · Sep 13, 2022

We learnt early that white ghosts can lie. Australians are ready for truth and reckoning

In this Griffith Review extract Thomas Mayor writes about how his people have a different history of Captain Cook’s ‘discovery’ of the Torres Strait. Now is the time for truths to collide and come together

The Guardian - AU · May 20, 2022

Trent Dalton shares the love as Newcastle Writers Festival emerges COVID pandemic

Newcastle Writers Festival asks "What does the world need now?" and answers with big love and big ideas.

Newcastle Herald · Apr 2, 2022

Indigenous advocate calls for independent investigation into NT Police shooting in Palmerston, near Darwin

A Darwin-born Indigenous activist believes "genuine fear" is rippling through the community after an Aboriginal teenager was shot multiple times by police on Tuesday in a suburb south of Darwin.

ABC News · Mar 9, 2022