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Price delivers a tearful speech for Kumanjayi Little Baby in the Senate.

‘She should still be here’: Jacinta Nampijinpa Price breaks down in parliament over death of niece

In an emotional speech, the NT senator used her condolence speech to demand a national reckoning over violence, neglect and abuse in Indigenous communities.

  • Rob Harris

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Illustration  by Jozsef Benke

When Kumanjayi Little Baby died, Australia noticed. Too often we don’t

Too many Indigenous deaths pass with little attention or outcry. Let’s hope this is a turning point.

  • Sean Kelly
Police release CCTV footage showing an angry crowd breaking into an Alice Springs service station
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Alice Springs crowd rushes servo

Police release CCTV footage showing an angry crowd breaking into an Alice Springs service station

There’s a better way to do ‘forced and tokenistic’ Acknowledgements of Country

People may feel forced to be “woke” or politically correct. It’s time to go beyond this and get personal.

  • Jioji Ravulo and Lynette Riley
Uncle Ray Minniecon at church in Glebe on Sunday.

Uncle Ray Minniecon served in the army. His brothers and grandfather fought in wars. None of this stopped the booing on Anzac Day

In the distressing hours after he was booed at the dawn service in Martin Place, the elder’s phone lit up with two important calls.

  • Bevan Shields
Belinda Nicholls was found dead by police on Monday morning. She has been remembered as a loyal friend and a beautiful soul.

‘She always hoped for a better life’: Indigenous mother found dead in Melbourne’s east

A man has been arrested in relation to the death of Belinda Nicholls, after her body was found at a house in Bayswater.

  • Angus Delaney and Alexander Darling
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Crowd members carry “Free Joel Davis” posters, referring to the jailed neo-Nazi leader.

Neo-Nazi chants at anti-immigration rally, Invasion Day protest draws thousands

Chants of “white man fight back” were taken up by the March for Australia crowd. Across the CBD, Indigenous protesters directed their ire towards Pauline Hanson.

  • Patrick Begley, Amber Schultz and Jessica McSweeney
Benny Zable and Tarneen Onus Browne, represented by the Human Rights Law Centre, are filing a legal and constitutional challenge to police search powers in the Federal Court.

Police search powers were invalid and unlawful, Federal Court rules

The court agreed with a challenge by the Human Rights Law Centre that Victoria Police erroneously declared Melbourne CBD a ‘designated area’.

  • Rachel Eddie and Lachlan Abbott
Maulboyheenner and Tunnerminnerwait, a painting  by Marlene Gilson

Timme, hanged in Melbourne in 1842, rides a canoe home in spirit

Timme, also known as Maulboyheenner, was hanged, aged 27, in Melbourne. More than 180 years later, his spirit has returned to the place of his birth in Tasmania.

  • Tony Wright
An additional extension of the declaration prohibiting marches could capture Invasion Day protests.

Police warn protesters not to march as ban extension looms

Tensions are building between police and demonstrators ahead of planned rallies in Sydney on Friday and Sunday.

  • Jack Gramenz