Jinparinya: The last place Wes Lockyer was seen
The nine homes in Jinparinya, more than 1200 kilometres north of Perth, where Wes Lockyer lived with his extended family.
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In the shadow of a mining giant, children crawl in poison
Blood lead levels in children under five are on the rise again despite decades of remediation efforts in a town built on one of Australia’s richest mines.
- by Angus Thomson and Rhett Wyman
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Voice to parliament
As a Palawa man, it’s sensory overload to cover Garma
Attending the biggest Indigenous festival in the country takes photographer Rhett Wyman back to another crucial moment in Australian history.
- by Rhett Wyman
‘Next thing I knew the water had lifted the house’: Eugowra homes reduced to mud and concrete
The small central western NSW town was littered with cars, scraps of wall and houses, while two people are missing after flash flooding turned it upside down.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos, Catherine Naylor and Rhett Wyman
Molong’s pool once glistened in a drought. Now it’s muddy and missing swimming flippers
The mammoth clean up that lies ahead of the Molong community is not unique to the area. It does, however, illustrate the challenges towns and their residents face as extreme weather events get more frequent and intense.
- by Laura Chung, Natassia Chrysanthos, Nick Moir and Rhett Wyman
Meet the grandmas of the Central Desert, saving one child at a time
Doreen Carroll was three when her 18-year-old mother was murdered and left in a creek bed. Her baby sister was found asleep nestled in the crook of her late mother’s arm.
- by Julie Power and Rhett Wyman
‘They are everything’: Objects of Australia’s Dreamtime find their way home from Manchester
Sacred cultural objects are beginning to be returned to country. But elders say it is a race against time before the knowledge of how they were once used, and where they belong, is gone forever.
- by Julie Power and Rhett Wyman
‘We’re people and we need justice’: Inside the vicious prison cycle
The final instalment of the Herald's justice series reveals how the unrelenting prison cycle is breaking Aboriginal families.
- by Ella Archibald-Binge, Nigel Gladstone and Rhett Wyman
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Indigenous justice
Aboriginal people twice as likely to get a jail sentence, data shows
Part two of the Herald's justice investigation reveals Indigenous people are twice as likely to go to jail than non-Indigenous offenders in some courts.
- by Ella Archibald-Binge, Nigel Gladstone and Rhett Wyman
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'I couldn't believe my eyes': The thin blue line between race and policing
In the first of a three-part series exploring the justice system, the Sydney Morning Herald examines the relationship between Aboriginal people and police in northern NSW.
- by Ella Archibald-Binge, Nigel Gladstone and Rhett Wyman
Aboriginal men and war veterans form unlikely bond in face of trauma
Living in various remote Indigenous communities across Cape York for the past 20 years, an army veteran noticed unsettling trends among both groups.
- by Ella Archibald-Binge and Rhett Wyman
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