Indigenous justice
These artists first picked up a brush in prison. It changed their lives
Connecting with their culture through art while in prison has proven revolutionary for hundreds of Indigenous people.
- Kerrie O'Brien
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Actor Tasma Walton is linked to Indigenous tribe, judge rules
The judge also apologised for significant online abuse the 51-year-old suffered during investigations into a native title dispute in Melbourne.
- Erin Pearson
‘It would be easier not to know’: Kate Grenville’s eye-opening road trip
A niggling childhood memory sends the writer on a journey of discovery about her land-grabbing forefathers – and what she finds is deeply troubling for her.
- Kate Grenville
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- Northern Territory
Landmark High Court case paves the way for $700 million native title claim
The court’s ruling on Wednesday exposes the federal government to compensation claims over land in the Northern Territory.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
Patrick was getting into trouble, but in a remote corner of the NT, he’s learning to be a leader
Mustering cattle, bush medicine, making beauty products from plants and learning about Country. At Seven Emu Station, Indigenous teenagers are learning new skills and keeping out of youth detention.
- Jack Latimore and Justin McManus
‘Matter of urgency’: Coroner calls for closure of WA youth prison unit
Coroner Philip Urquhart called for the justice department to be stripped of its role overseeing young people.
- Aaron Bunch
Drugs, bikies, a serial killer: How did six men vanish from the outback without a trace?
Wes Lockyer is one of six Aboriginal men from WA’s remote north to have disappeared in recent years. His family want the police and pollies to do more to find them. And the public to care.
- Tim Elliott
- Magazine
- Good Weekend
The December 7 Edition
Vanished without trace: mystery in the desert | The art of (filming) kindness | Politicians and our love/hate cycle | Margaret & Josh Pomeranz
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- Courts
‘A long time coming’: Indigenous leader Geoff Clark jailed for stealing $1m from his ‘kingdom’
Indigenous leaders from the tiny mission in regional Victoria wept and embraced outside court after the judge found Clark had “emphatically betrayed its trust”.
- Erin Pearson
An Indigenous woman and a colonial descendant have come together in an unlikely alliance
‘We would get healing’: A push is on to overhaul place names celebrating white settlers who played a part in Aboriginal massacres and dispossession.
- Benjamin Preiss
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