Indigenous advocate Larissa Behrendt is a lawyer, writer, filmmaker and more, and helped to topple Collingwood CEO Eddie McGuire

Australian Financial Review · Janek Drevikovsky · 2026-11-05 02:32 UTC

Indigenous advocate Larissa Behrendt is a lawyer, writer, filmmaker and more. Some say she was the first Australian ever cancelled for a tweet. She disagrees.

Larissa Behrendt is no stranger to the sort of episode that “shows you who your friends are” – the sort that the Indigenous academic, lawyer and writer endured in the aftermath of 2007, when the federal government marched its troops into the Northern Territory.

This was “the intervention” – John Howard’s emergency response to reports of widespread child abuse in Aboriginal towns. Alcohol was restricted, benefits were cut, police numbers surged. The Racial Discrimination Act was suspended – shamefully, Behrendt says.

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