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Patrick musters cattle at Seven Emu Station.

Patrick was getting into trouble, but in a remote corner of the NT, he’s learning to be a leader

Mustering cattle, bush medicine, making beauty products from plants and learning about Country. At Seven Emu Station, Indigenous teenagers are learning new skills and keeping out of youth detention.

  • Jack Latimore and Justin McManus

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Cleveland Dodd died after being held in Unit 18. His mother Nadene Dodd wants to ensure change is made. Picture: WAtoday

‘Matter of urgency’: Coroner calls for closure of WA youth prison unit

Coroner Philip Urquhart called for the justice department to be stripped of its role overseeing young people.

  • Aaron Bunch

Drugs, bikies, a serial killer: How did six men vanish from the outback without a trace?

Wes Lockyer is one of six Aboriginal men from WA’s remote north to have disappeared in recent years. His family want the police and pollies to do more to find them. And the public to care.

  • Tim Elliott

The December 7 Edition

Vanished without trace: mystery in the desert | The art of (filming) kindness | Politicians and our love/hate cycle | Margaret & Josh Pomeranz

‘A long time coming’: Indigenous leader Geoff Clark jailed for stealing $1m from his ‘kingdom’

Indigenous leaders from the tiny mission in regional Victoria wept and embraced outside court after the judge found Clark had “emphatically betrayed its trust”.

  • Erin Pearson
Keicha Day and Suzannah Henty

An Indigenous woman and a colonial descendant have come together in an unlikely alliance

‘We would get healing’: A push is on to overhaul place names celebrating white settlers who played a part in Aboriginal massacres and dispossession.

  • Benjamin Preiss
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Queensland Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry board members Ivan Ingram, Vonda Malone, chairperson Joshua Creamer, Cheryl Buchanan, and Roslyn Atkinson AO.

Truth-telling inquiry in limbo after minister cancels meeting

The future of a truth-telling inquiry is in limbo after the Queensland government postponed plans to discuss the Path to Treaty process.

  • Fraser Barton
Queensland Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry chairperson Joshua Creamer speaks to journalists.

‘Kick up the guts’: Indigenous Queenslanders devastated by decision to halt truth-telling inquiry

In one of his first decisions as premier, David Crisafulli pulled the pin on the hearings, a move that Indigenous groups say is a harmful step backwards.

  • Keira Jenkins
Since 2020, Victoria’s families department has received 66 reports of deaths from children inside or known to the child-protection system.

66 dead children, 5400 abuse claims: State’s child-protection system under blowtorch

The statistics covering the past four years have been reported as calls intensify for reform, particularly from the Indigenous community.

  • Kieran Rooney
Ilbijerri Theatre’s Big Name, No Blankets is performed at a Melbourne prison.

‘So hungry for something beyond four walls’: The musical bringing joy to prisons

Ilbijerri Theatre’s Big Name, No Blankets wowed audiences at the big festivals in Sydney and Melbourne. Now it’s winning over the toughest crowd of all.

  • Karl Quinn

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