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Kristin ShortenInvestigative Journalist

Kristin Shorten is an award-winning investigative journalist who began her media career at The Courier-Mail newspaper and reported for various News Corp mastheads before joining The Australian. Kristin has written, produced and directed documentaries including Voodoo Medics, The Boy in the Blue Cap and Yuendumu. She has also written, produced and hosted podcasts including Voodoo Medics, My name is Cleo and Yuendumu: The Trial. In 2019 Kristin was named West Australian Journalist of the Year for her investigation into the death of Father Joseph Tran and has twice been named West Australian Freelance Journalist of the Year for her work on the unsolved murder of Gerard Ross. In 2022 she won a News Award and NT Media Award for her reporting on the fatal police shooting of Kumanjayi Walker at Yuendumu. Contact Kristin here: shortenk@theaustralian.com.au

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Chris 'Willow' Wilson graphic with helicopter crash

Items missing from site of fatal Outback Wrangler crash

A couple of red jerry cans, that were full of fuel, are among the crucial evidence missing from the site of the fatal Northern Territory chopper crash that killed Netflix star Chris Wilson.

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Chris ‘Willow’ Wilson. The 34-year-old father-of-two was tragically killed in a helicopter crash in a remote part of West Arnhem Land last Monday while collecting crocodile eggs. Pictures - Supplied

‘I didn’t change my story’: Croc egg collector backs fuel claims

Tim Luck doubles down on statements he made about the fatal NT chopper crash that killed Netflix star Chris Wilson.

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2013: Seven produced another segment about rising star Matt Wright for its Sunday Night program in which journalist Edwina Bartholomew was slung beneath a helicopter before being dropped into 15-foot cane grass near a crocodile nest with Wright.

Casual CASA’s alarming lack of croc mission checks

A federal investigation into a fatal chopper crash has revealed that CASA allowed operators to sling a person beneath helicopters for 15 years without a single risk assessment.

Kristin Shorten

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Troy Thomas’s Robinson R44 Clipper II – registered VH-ZGY – crashed off the top of his boat High Calibre, which was moored at Raft Point off the Western Australian coast, causing significant damage to the vessel. Picture: ATSB/WA Police.

Pilot involved in crash off boat before Broome chopper deaths

The high-profile West Australian tourism operator who died in a Broome chopper crash that killed a 12-year-old girl was the pilot in another serious incident in the Kimberley – that was not reported to authorities despite everyone on board being injured.

Kristin Shorten

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Fatal chopper crash findings to be released

The national transport safety investigator will this week release its long-awaited final report into the high-profile chopper crash that killed Netflix star Chris Wilson.

Kristin Shorten

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Pilot Troy Thomas with Ernie Dingo while filming 'Going Places with Ernie Dingo' at Horizontal Falls.

Crash site not given approval for flights

Award-winning WA tourism operator Troy Thomas used an industrial property in the Kimberley as a helicopter landing site – without council permission – for at least four years before it became the scene of a fatal crash.

Kristin Shorten

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Images relating to the July 4, 2020 helicopter crash where pilot Troy Thomas and other passengers died. 12yo Amber Millar.

Unlicensed pilot did medevacs before fatal crash

A high-profile tourism operator, whose private pilot licence had expired, was performing commercial medical evacuations off the WA coast before the fatal crash that killed him and 12-year-old Amber Millar.

Kristin Shorten

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Outback Wrangler Matt Wright and his wife Kaia. Picture: Instagram

Chopper users lose legal wrangle

Netflix stars Matt and Kaia Wright have lost their bid to have enforcement action over the use of helicopters at one of their sprawling Top End homes set aside.

Kristin Shorten

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Coroner refuses to probe WA chopper crash deaths

A WA coroner is refusing to hold an inquest into the death of a 12-year-old girl who was killed in a horrific helicopter crash in the Kimberley despite repeated pleas from her devastated parents.

Kristin Shorten

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Preferred image of Kumanjayi Walker for media use, as requested by the family.

No end in sight for inquest after Rolfe’s recusal bid

The coronial inquest into Kumanjayi Walker’s death has been indefinitely postponed following Zachary Rolfe’s application to have the NT Coroner recuse herself.

Kristin Shorten

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