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Mystery, police flaws shroud Indigenous teen's train track death
A series of police blunders have kept the truth from the family of an Indigenous...
Stephanie Gardiner 30 Apr 2026
Migrant worker heat deaths spark calls for visa changes
Migrants brought to Australia to work in agriculture have died of dehydration, a...
Stephanie Gardiner 12 Sep 2025
Elder fails to defend trespass using sovereignty claim
A Wiradjuri Elder who tried to claim back land owned by a regional university ha...
Stephanie Gardiner 10 Sep 2025
'I miss everything about him' - Devoted family man remembered as inquest searches for answers
Paul Harris, who died at a small rural hospital after Q fever and a lung clot we...
Stephanie Gardiner 27 Aug 2025
Q fever and clot undiagnosed before Indigenous man's death
A rural health service and a doctor have offered their condolences to the family...
Stephanie Gardiner 20 Aug 2025
Hit-run death a symbol of Pacific migrant workers' sacrifices

Argen Kuni came to Australia with "a heart full of hope", determined to earn enough money to build a new home for his wife and two sons. The young father arrived from the Solomon Islands under the Pac...

NDIS provider pleads guilty over young Aboriginal woman's bathtub burns death

This article contains the name of someone who has died. A regional disability provider has admitted to serious safety breaches after the death of a young Aboriginal woman who was badly burned in a bat...

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Stephanie Gardiner Apr 29, 2025
NSW:Four decades of torment after teen's train track death

Mark Haines' siblings have spent every day of the last 37 years desperately missing their beloved older brother. Mr Haines, a happy and unassuming Gomeroi teenager who loved playing footy, was found d...

Blood discovered in car boot after Indigenous teen's mystery death

The uncle of an Indigenous teenager found dead on rural train tracks 37 years ago says he discovered blood in the boot of a nearby car wreck.

'Horrible' mistaken identity in train tracks death

The morning teenager Mark Haines was found dead on rural train tracks, a hysterical mother pounded on her son's front door. The woman was looking for her son Raymond Ervine, whose birth certificate wa...

'Not me': best friend denies role in train track death

The best friend of Mark Haines has denied any involvement in the Indigenous teenager's death on train tracks, telling the bereaved family: "I hope you get answers, I really do.

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Stephanie Gardiner Mar 31, 2025
Remote communities cut off from reliable power and information for 19 days, inquiry hears

Remote communities cut off from reliable power for 19 days also experienced an information black-out when telecommunications systems failed. When power went out across the outback after a freak storm...

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Stephanie Gardiner Mar 17, 2025
'We didn't do it': man denies rumours over teen's death

After Mark Haines' body was found on train tracks, rumours soon swirled around a country town about two brothers being involved in the teenager's death.

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Stephanie Gardiner Oct 29, 2024
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