Lifeline's national crisis support hotline for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has recorded a surge in calls following the March for Australia protests.

13YARN, the 24/7 number run by Indigenous crisis supporters, receives an average of 91 calls each day, or 33,215 calls a year, according to new data from Lifeline today.

The figure is up from last year's average of 65 calls each day, or 23,725 calls a year. 

The crisis line recorded its busiest year since launching in March 2022 in October, off the back of the March for Australia protests and the alleged attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne on August 30.

Thousands of people protested against immigration nationwide on the same day that a group of neo-Nazis, including prominent white nationalist Thomas Sewell, st

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