The WA Government is refusing to answer even the most basic questions relating to the events leading up to the suicide death of a 10-year-old Indigenous boy in their care.
Hannah Cross
Housing Minister John Carey has defended the Government’s record on social housing evictions amid a Supreme Court case.
Jake Dietsch
The Department of Communities would be barred from evicting children into homelessness and prevented from easily terminating tenancies if a bombshell Supreme Court challenge launching this week is successful.
Josh Zimmerman
The national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children says the WA Government is yet to formally respond to a report that flagged a child protection system facing significant pressures.
Burned out child protection workers – often afraid for their physical safety – are being forced to operate in a ‘perpetual state of crisis’.
Aboriginal Legal Service WA boss Wayne Nannup has lambasted the State Government over the death of a 10-year-old boy, saying the trauma experienced by vulnerable Aboriginal children in care is ‘extreme’.
Liberal Leader Libby Mettam said the ‘utterly incomprehensible’ case where a 10-year-old boy took his own life underscored the extreme pressure being felt by the frontline workers.
Premier Roger Cook would support expediting a coronial inquest into the suicide of a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy who died in the care of the Department of Communities.
Liberal MLC Peter Collier plans to meet with the family of an Indigenous 10-year-old boy who took his life while in State care.
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has unleashed on Anthony Albanese and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney, saying they have ‘failed’ in protecting Indigenous children.
Katina Curtis, Hannah Cross and Caitlyn Rintoul
A 10-year-old Indigenous boy has taken his own life while in the care of the State Government.
State leaders and bureaucrats still don't have a good grasp on the concept of Aboriginal self-determination, a former Victorian department official says.
Holly Hales and Callum Godde
Historical land use agreements in Victoria were set up to exclude traditional owner groups from their share in billions of dollars in revenue, a minister says.
Adrian Black
The clean-up bill for the famed Argyle diamond mine will be about $270 million more than Rio Tinto originally planned, but the mining behemoth’s financial commitment to traditional owners is unshaken.
Adrian Rauso
The coroner in Cleveland Dodd’s inquest says he is satisfied with the way the nurses and guards on duty tried to save the teenager’s life but was damning in his assessment of the notorious prison unit.
Rebecca Le May
The nurse on duty on the night the teen fatally self-harmed was so affected by what she’d seen at Unit 18 that she kept a diary for her ‘own mental health’, testifying the facility was ‘like a war zone’.
Cossack, a former pearling town in the Pilbara, is closed for the foreseeable future and traditional owners say the State Government is to blame.
Explosive revelations about misconduct by the most senior officer on duty when Cleveland Dodd fatally self-harmed have emerged.
Some of the guards on duty at the notorious Unit 18 on the night Cleveland Dodd fatally self-harmed had previously faced disciplinary action for breaching professional standards, his inquest has also been told.
The start of works to remove 180 Hyde Park trees infested with the polyphagous shot-hole borer is an emotional experience for locals.
Daniel Smith
The youth custodial officer who found Cleveland Dodd hanging in his cell says he didn’t run to alert authorities because he has arthritic knees and didn’t call for help as he was in shock.
Aboriginal advocates have blasted the Victorian government over its response to an inquiry into the child protection and criminal justice systems.
Callum Godde
From humble beginnings sleeping under the stars in Fitzroy Crossing to walking the halls of decision making in Australia as an advocate for Indigenous women, June Oscar has made a profound impact.
Emma Garlett
The descendant of an early settler has called for the removal of monuments to her forebears, as Victoria's truth telling commission continues.
Adrian Black and William Ton