Protesters are doubling down on their intentions to go ahead with the rally even in the absence of an exemption despite warnings of fines for those who breach health orders.
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The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether men can be
banned from the courtroom, in a case that highlights one of the
many cultural issues faced by Indigenous Australians within the
current justice system.
The case centres around a 16-year old Indigenous girl, who was
strip searched by police after she allegedly threatened to harm
both herself and police officers.
According to the police, the girl produced items
from under her clothes when she was arrested in Wagga Wagga for
stealing a Mitsubishi Pajero.
A warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; this article contains references to people who have died.
I love walking through cemeteries. I love to read the gravestones. They are like the first and last page of a novel whose contents I will never know. Here lies many from my community; they were born, lived, and then lost. They were loved. This evening I am walking with my 11-year-old daughter and my husband through Mullumbimby’s cemetery. It is a quiet and beautiful place. I feel the stories rumbling under our feet. I never understand why people see these places as creepy. They are places of reverence and remembering. They remind us of our transience. It’s the small graves that hurt the most. We see the grave of a baby girl who lived and died 100 years ago. One year and nine months. Another, only seven months. For an instant, when I read their names, I feel the pang of the loss travel across the decades. Then I see his grave; my friend Bob Morgan has told me abo