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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
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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Amy McQuire
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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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Amy McQuire
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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Amy McQuire
"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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