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Masig Island volunteer leads push for stronger marine rescue services
Marine Rescue Queensland (MRQ) Masig Unit Commander Loice Naawi is working to st...
Joseph Guenzler 6 Nov 2026
Two arrested over separate alleged assaults on Tiwi Islands
A man has been arrested and charged with sexual assault on the Tiwi Islands, whi...
Dechlan Brennan 2 Nov 2026
Man charged over child abuse material in West Arnhem township
Northern Territory Police have charged a 29-year-old man in a West Arnhem Townsh...
Dechlan Brennan 29 Oct 2026
Inquest to be held into murder of Hawke children after grandmother's long campaign for truth
This report includes the names of Indigenous people who have died. After a long...
Giovanni Torre 15 Oct 2026
Leading legal figures continue push for inquest into murder of Pilbara children
This report includes the names of Indigenous people who have died. Two prominent...
Giovanni Torre 15 Oct 2026
Murder charge laid over death of 21-year-old Jayda Lou-Eve Allen Bonner

Warning: This story contains the name and images of an Indigenous person who has died. A man has been charged with the murder of 21-year-old Jayda Lou-Eve Allen Bonner.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 14, 2026
Open justice, victim safety debate as NT considers changing suppression order laws

The Northern Territory Government's proposal to allow the public naming of accused rapists and child sex offenders before they are committed to stand trial has drawn cautious criticism from legal grou...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 14, 2026
'It is never too late to speak up and seek support' - Yvonne Weldon comes forward as complainant in Mick Mundine historic assault case

Indigenous community leader and City of Sydney councillor Yvonne Weldon has come forward as the complainant at the centre of the sexual assault charges against Mick Mundine.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 9, 2026
Commissioner releases details of probe into child protection crisis in the Pilbara

Note: this report contains the names of people who have died. The National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People, Sue-Anne Hunter, released the Terms of Refe...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 9, 2026
Prominent Sydney Aboriginal leader Mick Mundine charged with two sexual assault offences

Prominent Sydney Aboriginal leader Mick Mundine has been charged with two sexual assault offences following an investigation. The 79-year-old chief executive of the Aboriginal Housing Company was arre...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 8, 2026
WA Premier won't commit to visiting town at the heart of child protection crisis

WA Premier Roger Cook will not commit to going to Port Hedland himself to take charge of a child protection crisis and see the conditions that have been described as a "national shame", The West Austr...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 8, 2026
Bishop's victims praised for bringing down powerful man

A former high-ranking Catholic fond of hosting alcohol-fuelled shirts-off parties will spend at least four and a half years behind bars for sexually abusing two young Aboriginal men.

WA Children's Commissioner set to release report on child protection system, rules out inquiry into murder of three young children in Port Hedland

Note: This article includes the names of people who have died. Western Australia's Commissioner for Children and Young People will release a report on the state's child protection system before the en...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 7, 2026
Former WA Governor joins Malarndirri McCarthy in call for inquest into murder of three Aboriginal children

This story contains details some readers may find disturbing, and includes the names of people who have died. A former WA Governor and former WA Children's Court president have joined federal Minister...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 5, 2026
Opinion: Our Aboriginal children are being failed by a system meant to protect them

Every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child deserves the chance to grow up healthy, strong in identity and Culture, connected to family, Community and Country and surrounded by the people who kn...

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Sheree Lowe Sep 17, 2026
Exclusive: We should be horrified by what the Closing the Gap report cannot tell us

There is one particular sentence in the Productivity Commission's latest Closing the Gap Annual Data Compilation Report that should alarm you. Not because of what it counts.

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Olga Havnen AM Sep 17, 2026
'Broken by design' - Kimberley report calls for the end of centralised housing maintenance model

A new report from Kimberley Community Legal Services following a year long survey of 166 public housing tenants has revealed widespread failures in the delivery of public housing maintenance across th...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 17, 2026
Still no plea from suspect in January 26 alleged terrorist attack

Liam Alexander Hall, the suspect accused of throwing a homemade bomb into a crowd at Perth/Boorloo's January 26 Invasion Day rally, has had no plea recorded following a committal hearing on Wednesday...

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NIT Sep 16, 2026
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