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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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
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.
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.
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.
Ray of light in family’s search for justice
The first full inquest into the horrific deaths of two teenage Aboriginal girls in Bourke will probe why the white defendant walked free
How Louise Bourgeois spun her father’s affair into a cannibalistic artwork
Louise Bourgeois’s feelings of rage towards her father – and her governess – were reflected in her art as she emerged from a traumatic childhood to become, late in life, one of the world’s leading artists.
Noosa delivers on style and substance
The Noosa alive! festival has grown into an ambitious, must-see 10-day event spanning literature and ballet, opera, classical, jazz, rock and folk music.
Pharaohmania: How you can come face-to-face with Ramses II
The Australian Museum’s Ramses II exhibition has sold an astonishing 100,000 advance tickets and features one of Ancient Egypt’s finest royal coffins. Here’s what else you can expect to see.
Why AI could be humankind’s ‘last invention’
Ahead of his Australian tour, renowned philosopher and author AC Grayling delives into a family murder that still haunts him, why we should eat mealworms and the dangers of AI.
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