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Douglas SmithIndigenous affairs reporter

Douglas Smith is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster – including being part of the team that won a Walkley Award in 2023 for the podcast Dying Rose, which investigated the police response to the deaths of six Indigenous women around Australia. Douglas has worked for SBS and NITV as a video journalist, and now covers Indigenous affairs for The Advertiser.

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SA News

Worrying sign for Yes campaign as Adelaide casts its first votes

The Advertiser exit polls conducted at five voting locations across Adelaide on day one of pre-polling show how many have already said Yes and No.

Dying Rose

Police wall of silence ‘lets families down’ after six women’s deaths

While investigating the harrowing deaths of six Aboriginal women, The Advertiser was met with a wall of silence from authorities. Indigenous leaders say that needs to change.

EXCLUSIVEDying Rose

Dying Rose podcast - Lasonya Dutton - Keith Dutton holds up photos of Lasonya and her brother Keith Jnr and other families members. Picture: Dijana Damjanovic

Coroner intervenes after podcast unearths new evidence

A distraught dad was left with haunting unanswered questions after his daughter’s body was found being eaten by dogs – but now he has fresh hope for answers.

SA News

Uncle Raymond Finn is a Wangkangurru man living in Sydney, and a member of the Stolen Generations, who was taken and placed at the Colebrook Boys home in Blackwood. He is a staunch advocate for the Yes vote, and returned to the site which is now a park which recognises the harm done to those stolen generations. 13 September 2023. Picture Dean Martin

‘Don’t do anything Aboriginal’: They took my voice at Eden Hills

Stolen Generations member Raymond Finn says he was hesitant about the Voice at first.

Dying Rose

Charli Powell was found dead in a men’s toilet block near Queanbeyan, just outside of Canberra, on February 11, 2019.

Former cop lashes police over teen’s death in men’s toilet

A former cop has slammed the investigation into 17-year-old Charli’s death – and revealed how her violent boyfriend, in jail for 76 unrelated offences, reacted in court.

Dying Rose

Charli Powell, 17, was found dead in a men's toilet block in Queanbeyan, NSW.

Abusive boyfriend saved tragic teen as ‘slut’ in his phone

A 17-year-old girl was followed to school, harassed and saved in her boyfriend’s phone as “slut” before her death in a men’s toilet block, a court was told.

Dying Rose

Charli Powell was found inside a men's toilet block in Queanbeyan, NSW.

Shocking police reaction to teen girl’s death in men’s toilet

Charli was just 17 when she was found dead in a toilet block by her abusive boyfriend. What police did next left her mum horrified and angry.

VIDEODying Rose

Shanarra Bright for Dying Rose podcast. Picture: Supplied

Cops dragged out screaming brother as Shanarra’s body lay metres away

A mum claims her family has endured “years of trauma” after police barged into their home and arrested her son – moments after his sister took her own life. Listen to the podcast episode.

VIDEODying Rose

Justin Goldsmith was arrested while his sister Shanarra Bright Campbell laid dead.

‘Don’t hurt my son’: Mum’s desperate plea in shocking footage

A desperate mum called triple-0 to save her daughter – instead, cops stormed her home in a “traumatising” ordeal, with the young woman’s body just metres away. See the video.

Dying Rose

Shanarra Bright Campbell laid dead while her brother was arrested just metres away.

Harrowing arrest footage as sister lay dead

Shocking video has captured a man’s violent police arrest just metres from the body of his 23-year-old sister who just killed herself.

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