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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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NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker at the Howard Springs facility near Darwin. Picture: Pema Tamang

NT top cop to remain on leave for at least two months

Jamie Chalker won’t return to work as planned after a Supreme Court judge set down his employment dispute to be heard in June.

Kristin Shorten and Matt Cunningham

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA , NewsWire Photos. MARCH 16TH 2023 Bruce Lehrmann walks out of the supreme court in Sydney . Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Flavio Brancaleone

Legal ‘tension’ over Higgins rape case

The inquiry into Bruce Lehrmann’s prosecution was sparked by an explosive complaint from the ACT DPP.

Kristin Shorten

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6/4/23: Widow Julie Black at Clovelly Beach, she is suing Civil Aviation Safety Authority in the NSW Supreme Court next month. After six years locked in litigation with CASA, and failed mediations, Julie is suing Civil Aviation Safety Authority in the NSW Supreme Court next month over the death of her pilot husband David Black who was killed when the wing fell off his aircraft while fighting bushfires on the south cast in 2013. John Feder/The Australian.

‘Wings don’t just fall off aircraft’

A decade after pilot David Black was killed during a fire-bombing mission near Ulladulla, his widow Julie is taking her protracted legal battle to the NSW Supreme Court.

Kristin Shorten

Nation

Matt Wright attends Darwin Local Court to answer charges relating to the death of his Ã¢â¬ÅOutback WranglerÃ¢â¬Â co star Chris Ã¢â¬ÅWillowÃ¢â¬Â Wilson in February 2022.Picture; Glenn Campbell

Wrangler hints at crash pilot drug use

Netflix star Matt Wright is suggesting that his pilot was under the influence of drugs at the time of a Northern Territory chopper crash that killed his Outback Wrangler co-star Chris “Willow” Wilson.

Kristin Shorten

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Zachary Rolfe stands proud after he is found not guilty of all charges. Picture: (A)manda Parkinson

‘Surprised’ Rolfe to fight police sacking

Police officer Zachary Rolfe, who was found not guilty of murdering an Indigenous man, has been formally dismissed by the Northern Territory police.

Liam Mendes and Kristin Shorten

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

Croc-wrangling TV couple’s brawl over chopper use

Netflix stars Matt and Kaia Wright have landed themselves in a new legal wrangle over their helicopters.

Kristin Shorten and Liam Mendes

EXCLUSIVENation

Northern Territory Water Police officer in charge Senior Sergeant Sandi Mellon with Superintendent Daniel Shean. Picture: Supplied

Chopper crash: cop’s job on line

The Northern Territory Police Force has threatened to sack the first female boss of its Water Police Unit in connection to the fatal chopper crash that killed Outback Wrangler cast member Chris “Willow” Wilson.

Kristin Shorten

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Hand over Lehrmann inquiry material, AFP told

The AFP has been publicly reprimanded for refusing to hand over crucial material to the inquiry into the handling of Bruce Lehrmann’s discontinued alleged rape case.

Kristin Shorten

ICAC, Ombudsman alertedNation

Police Graduates- Car photo:Back left - right. Nadine Caulfield, Emma Wetherall (ALICE) Front left - right: Kellie Moir, Alicia Humphrey (ALICE), Keryn Goymer(ALICE), Genevieve Rogers, Jennifer Pocock and Joanna Darby

NT Detective charged with assaulting women

Detective Senior Constable Keryn Goymer faces nine charges relating to alleged incidents between 2016 and 2019.

Kristin Shorten

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Northern Territory Children's Commissioner Colleen Gwynne speaks after the juvenile justice royal commission final report was released in Darwin on Friday, November 17, 2017. She says political leadership and bipartisan support is needed to ensure the implemented recommendations can achieve longstanding change. (AAP Image/Lucy Hughes Jones) NO ARCHIVING

Watchdog ‘at fault, but it’s not a crime’

An NT judge directed a Supreme Court jury to find Colleen Gwynne not guilty of corruption because the Crown could not prove the Children’s Commissioner’s conduct was criminal.

Kristin Shorten

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