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HORNELL — Mother Nature put a hold on Arkport/Canaseraga’s sectional baseball championship aspirations, but did little to slow its momentum this weekend.

There is a poignant symmetry between the Voice referendum legislation debate and the last hosting of Q&A by Stan Grant.

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Share on Twitter The Northern Territory government has passed its contentious new youth bail laws that critics warn will see the number of Indigenous kids ending up behind bars skyrocket. Under the changes, passed in parliament on Tuesday night, children accused of reoffending or committing serious breaches while on bail can be automatically placed on remand. However, a late amendment following widespread criticism from across the country means courts have the power to grant fresh...

More than 70 peak organisations have endorsed calls from Social Reinvestment WA urging the state to raise the age of criminal responsibility from ten to 14 years old.  The report ‘A Pathway to a Brighter Future for Western Australia’s most at risk children’ found almost 75 per cent of the average daily population in juvenile detention are First Nations children. Indigenous children make up just five per cent of young people in WA.  Social Reinvestment WA is urging the government to ref...

The Kimberly Land Council has dropped its CEO after he attempted to uncover information around the spending of millions of dollars in mining royalties.  Yawuru man Brian Wilkinson was just 12 weeks into his term as head of the council, one of the countrys oldest, when the board terminated his contract last week.  Mr Wilkinson, a former police officer, had been probing the financial dealings of the land councils associated trust, the Kimberly Sustainable Development Trust, which is the primary...

Leaked documents show ‘significant risk’ over Indigenous organisation’s millions We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Leaked documents show one of Australia’s oldest and best-resourced Indigenous corporations has been operating without a valid board of directors since 2017 and is unable to properly account for $28 million worth of transactions. The crisis at the Marra Worra Worra Aborigin...

Advertisement More than half of Australians support the minimum age of criminal responsibility being raised from 10, amid a growing international campaign for the change backed by legal experts, doctors and justice groups. In fact, polling commissioned by Amnesty International Australia reveals two-thirds of Australians already believe the minimum age of criminal responsibility is 14. A total of 56 per cent of Australians would support raising the minimum age to 14, with 33 per cent opposed and...

Share on Twitter In a "devastating" and "traumatic" period of just six days, Australia recorded three more Indigenous deaths in custody.  The death of a woman in her 50s on 5 March followed that of a man in his 30s on 2 March. It came to light through questioning in a state budget estimates hearing. It prompted an outpouring of grief across the country and sadness about how so many deaths could happen in such a short space of time, three decades on from a damning royal commission. ...