Indigenous Health Worker Calls Out ‘Misinformation’ About Australia’s Northern Territory COVID-19 Response

Indigenous Health Worker Calls Out ‘Misinformation’ About Australia’s Northern Territory COVID-19 Response
Howard Springs Quarantine Facility in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia on Oct. 23, 2020. McTiernan/Getty Images
Steve Milne
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An Australian Indigenous health worker currently in a COVID-19 quarantine facility in the Northern Territory (NT) has called online posts critical of the territory government’s outbreak response “disgusting.”

Social media posts have attacked the NT government over the evacuation of residents from Indigenous communities, likening it to the policies used under the Stolen Generation period, where Indigenous children and young adults were taken from their families and communities under duress.

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