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February 2023
The spirit can not rest til the body is found: Remembering Ms Bernard
It has been ten years today since Kokoberra woman Ms Bernard was last seen. Her family are still searching for her.
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January 2023
November 2022
Digging deeper into data on Disappeared Aboriginal women
60 percent of Aboriginal women disappeared from urban centres; 80 percent of Aboriginal women were disappeared away from their communities
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#JusticeforCassius; Mourning Filep Karma
Across the country, thousands turned up in solidarity with the family of Cassius Turvey. Meanwhile, in West Papua, our Indigenous brothers and sisters…
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Amy McQuire
October 2022
Across this landscape of disappearance, black mothers cry for their children
This week has been one of profound grief across the breadth of this country
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On the ethics of True Crime
Centring victims of violence in the wake of Netflix's Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
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Amy McQuire
November 2021
PODCAST: The criminalisation of mental illness
Listen now (39 min) | In this special edition, I bring you the latest episode of 'Curtain The Podcast' where Martin Hodgson and I interrogate the courts…
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Shattered Glass: The Death In Custody of Mark Mason Snr
Mark Mason Snr was shot by a cop in Collerenebri in 2010. His family never received a proper investigation, and 11 years later, his four children are…
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Newsworthy cases: Where is the 'care' for missing black children?
Blackfellas expressed relief, just like the rest of the nation, over the finding of Cleo Smith. But with that relief, came questions: why aren't our…
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October 2021
Friday Reads #2
And another update for the future of Presence
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"A license to kill": Family mourn Aboriginal woman JC
The police officer who killed Aboriginal woman JC in Geraldton has been acquitted of her murder and manslaughter.
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