A 17-year-old youth has pleaded guilty to murdering an 18-year-old mother-of-two whose body was found stuffed in a wheelie bin in Western Australia last year.
The body of Bethany was found outside a hospital in the mining town of Newman on May 6, 2020, just four weeks after she gave birth to her second child.
Bethany was a Martu woman whose traditional lands cover 13.6 million hectares in central Western Australia.
The woman s body with severe head injuries was found outside the hospital in Newman, 1,178 kilometres northeast of Perth at 4am on Wednesday, May 6, last year
Police believe she may have been stoned to death before her body was placed inside the bin and dumped outside the medical facility.
Radical Fix For Australia’s ‘Broken’ Family Court System Met With Resistance
Legal bodies and the federal opposition are vehemently opposing a “radical” move to merge the Family Court of Australia with the Federal Court.
One expert however says the merger is a step in the right direction and will provide “considerable benefits” to families navigating the system.
The Family Court of Australia has been the subject to four parliamentary inquiries over the past two decades seeking to address what former Law Council of Australia President Arthur Moses SC once described as “broken.”
Late last year, the federal government announced a new Bill which would merge both courts into one entity.