Victoria Laurie
Victoria Laurie is a senior reporter and feature writer who has written for Good Weekend, The Australian, The Bulletin, The Monthly, HQ, Australian Geographic and The Weekend Australian Magazine.
‘Help your mob’: The psychologist building an ‘army’ to tackle Indigenous suicide
She grew up in the only Aboriginal family in a remote Pilbara mining town. Now Tracy Westerman is fighting for the lives of at-risk youth in communities like hers.
- by Victoria Laurie
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Ken Wyatt is not known for anger. But when he read his family’s government files ...
The former minister for Indigenous Australians thought he knew everything about the heartache of his people. Then he read about the treatment of his forebears.
- by Victoria Laurie
This WA Indigenous program is a ‘remarkable’ success. So why is it battling for government funding?
An Indigenous pioneer in child intervention has urged the federal government to fix a funding impasse that could result in 30 jobs lost and 1000 children facing scaled-down services.
- by Victoria Laurie
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Biodiversity
Peat swamps in WA’s south were deemed ‘endangered’. They’re still smouldering after a prescribed burn
Patches of subsurface peat in endangered swamps north of Denmark are still smouldering weeks after a WA government department set fire to the area as part of a prescribed burn.
- by Victoria Laurie
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Indigenous culture
Researchers working to protect sacred sites to be charged same ‘crippling’ fee as mining companies
WA’s amended Aboriginal Heritage Act brings with it new costs that threaten research that could prevent another Juukan Gorge.
- by Victoria Laurie
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