Catherine Liddle

So when hundreds of people in a community that small

come out en masse.

It absolutely changes everything.

Everybody's talking about it on Facebook.

It's at scale, even though we're a smaller community.

The other time we've seen it in recent moments has been the alleged bombing attack in Borloo.

And again, that was something completely ignored by mainstream media, pretty much ignored by mainstream media and everybody else, until the community picked it up more broadly and Australians said, did something horrific just happen?

Correct.

Yes, correct.

That is what I'm talking about.

And again, completely ignored.

And if it hadn't been for the National Indigenous Times, it wouldn't have been anywhere, really.

So it was a conversation more broadly from Australians that said something really horrific has just happened.

Why are we not paying attention to it?

So I would hope that it's a turning point.

I really would.

And I think what we saw with Australia mourning more generally is there is a genuine concern and a genuine love for our children.

And I think what Australians saw was despite this horrific story that is often told about Aboriginal children, Aboriginal people fight very hard for their children.

Aboriginal people love their children and are fierce about their children and will do anything to find them.

And maybe for the first time ever, because the amount of tension that