Indigenous
King Charles drops cancelled word ‘walkabout’ from Australian tour
The King will drop the term “walkabout” from his October tour as Buckingham Palace seeks to avoid offending Indigenous communities.
- by Michelle Griffin
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Uranium
The mining bonanza and the mystery millions
Lucrative uranium mines are at the centre of a furore about where tens of millions of dollars in royalties have gone.
- by Riley Walter
In the shadow of a mining giant, children crawl in poison
Blood lead levels in children under five are on the rise again despite decades of remediation efforts in a town built on one of Australia’s richest mines.
- by Angus Thomson and Rhett Wyman
My ancestor knew more about atrocities against Aboriginal people than he let on, inquiry told
Atrocities during the Frontier Wars must be honestly acknowledged, a writer and a landowner have told the state’s truth-telling commission.
- by Tony Wright
Travis turns heads when he wears this feather. But there’s a grim prediction behind it
They’re majestic in flight, a big talker and a really fussy eater, which is part of the reason the red-tailed black cockatoo is endangered.
- by Justin McManus
Red-tailed black cockatoo
Age photographer Justin McManus joined the annual count of the red-tailed black cockatoo, an endangered bird that has enormous cultural significance
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Indigenous justice
‘A failure has occurred’: Perth teen takes own life at youth prison
There are calls for the police minister to resign as a youth has taken his own life inside the Perth facility; the second ever to do so, with both tragedies occurring within the past year.
- by Jesinta Burton, Claire Ottaviano and Holly Thompson
Meet the supergroup giving the middle finger to the Aussie music industry
New hip-hop supergroup 3% are taking an urgent, raw and honest approach to topics such as land reparations and Indigenous deaths in custody.
- by Gemma Grant
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Justice
Mother’s disgust after WorkSafe refuses to lay charges over Veronica Nelson’s death
A coroner found that Nelson, 37, would still be alive if prison staff had responded to her cries for help. But WorkSafe closed the case without any charges.
- by Erin Pearson
‘Nonsense’ or ‘rigorous’: Premier and Plibersek in blow-up over $1 billion gold mine
Minns has doubled down on his criticism of federal Labor Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek, saying he believed the decision to knock back the proposal had been made in error.
- by Max Maddison and Nick O'Malley
‘Help your mob’: The psychologist building an ‘army’ to tackle Indigenous suicide
She grew up in the only Aboriginal family in a remote Pilbara mining town. Now Tracy Westerman is fighting for the lives of at-risk youth in communities like hers.
- by Victoria Laurie