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The Boy on Boxing Day

IT IS Boxing Day, 1982, a young indigenous boy jumps the back fence of his Dundas Valley home to scurry off to Eastwood station — he is on a mission to borrow money for his mother — minutes later his brother goes after him, but is never seen again.Bradford Pholi Journalists Jake McCallum and Mary Anne Taouk investigate the devastating life of a young boy that slipped through the cracks, long before his disappearance. NewsLocal  
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