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Rosemary NeillSenior Writer, Review

Rosemary Neill is a senior writer with The Weekend Australian’s Review. She has been a feature writer, oped columnist and Inquirer editor for The Australian and has won a Walkley Award for feature writing. She was a dual finalist in the 2018 Walkley Awards and a finalist in the mid-year 2019 Walkleys. Her book, White Out, was shortlisted in the NSW and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards.

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Copy pic of Cindy Smith who tragically died 30 years ago on The Mitchell Highway just outside of Bourke when a car rolled killing her and her cousin Mona-Lisa Smith and the driver Alexander Grant got off despite having drunk 30 beers and without justice being served. Picture: Adam Taylor

Families finally heard by a system that failed

For the families, justice will never be complete. It is scandalous that it has taken more than three decades for a full inquest to be held.

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Copy pic of Mona-Lisa Smith when she was 15. Fiona Smith at the grave site of her younger sister Mona-Lisa Smith who tragically died 30 years ago on The Mitchell Highway just outside of Bourke when a car rolled killing her and her cousin Cindy Smith and the driver Alexander Grant got off despite having drunk 30 beers and without justice being served. Picture: Adam Taylor

‘Manslaughter charges should’ve been laid’

Manslaughter charges should have been laid against white man who escaped jail sentence after two Indigenous girls died, says a senior NSW cop.

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INQUIRERInquirer

Outgoing National Museum of Australia director Mat Trinca. Picture: Martin Ollman

Give the people more bang for their blockbuster bucks

Mat Trinca says taxpayers should have greater opportunity to see publicly funded exhibitions.

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Art scandalNation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA. JULY 23, 2023: Aboriginal Australian artist, curator, writer Brenda L Croft at home in Canberra. Picture: Martin Ollman

‘Egg on the face after hopes of hush-up’

Prominent Indigenous professor Brenda Croft has welcomed two new investigations into South Australia’s APY Arts Centre Collective.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA. DECEMBER 14, 2023: National Museum of Australia Director Mathew Trinca with Discovering Ancient Egypt curator Dr. Daniel Soliman at the NMA in Canberra. Picture: Martin Ollman

Museum boss delivers blockbuster farewell

There were ‘mixed emotions’ for National Museum of Australia director Mat Trinca on Thursday as he launched his final blockbuster after 10 years of running the Canberra institution.

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COURTSNation

Copy pic of Cindy Smith (left) and Mona-Lisa Smith (cousins) who tragically died 30 years ago on The Mitchell Highway just outside of Bourke when a car rolled killing her and her cousin Mona-Lisa Smith and the driver Alexander Grant got off despite having drunk 30 beers and without justice being served. Picture: Adam Taylor

Bourke cops’ control of evidence ‘a nightmare’

A former crime scene expert has described NSW Police’s flawed preservation of crucial evidence and a remote road crash site at which two Indigenous teenage girls died as ‘a nightmare’.

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30/11/2023: Bourke inquest into Mona Lisa Smith, 16, and Jacinta Rose Smith, 15, who accepted a lift from a 40-year-old white excavator driver in December 1987 and never returned home. Mother of one of the girls June Smith.

Daughter ‘bashed after car crashed’

June Smith, the mother of a 16-year-old Indigenous girl who died hours after accepting a lift from a middle-aged white man, has told an inquest her daughter was brutally bashed, and did not die in a car accident

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I didn’t believe most of what the accused said about crash: ex-cop

A former police officer has told an inquest he didn’t believe ‘a large majority’ of what Alexander Ian Grant told him about a devastating accident that killed two Indigenous girls 36 years ago.

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June and Fiona Smith in Bourke near the site of the tragic car accident where June's daugheter Mona-Lisa and her cousin Cindy died over three decades ago. The state coroner has finally announced an inquest to investigate their deaths. PIC: Bronwyn Wood

Police probe ‘shoddy, unprofessional’

A former police officer who investigated the deaths of two Indigenous girls in 1987 was told to ‘hop back in your car and piss off back to Sydney’ by a local cop when he arrived at the crime scene.

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Accused child killer ‘lied to police’: ex-cop’s bombshell

A man previously acquitted of killing two Indigenous girls in a horrific car accident – and of molesting the younger girl’s body as she lay on the road – made a crucial admission before changing his story, a new inquest has heard.

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