The Wall
An insider's take on Top End reporting for the ABC
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Screaming down a main highway wearing a shiny Olympic gold medal, celebrating an internationally anticipated verdict with beers in a bus, and an "endless" stream of crocodile
...Guard threatened 'to take me to the toilet and kick my head in'
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The royal commission into youth detention has heard from a detainee who said he was choked
...Meet the outback school using fresh food to change lives
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A remote school in north-west Queensland has launched a nutrition program aimed at improving attendance and student health.
Sunset State
...Former Don Dale detainee 'forced to mop floors with broken collarbone'
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A 15-year-old detainee at the Don Dale youth detention centre was denied medical treatment for a broken collarbone for at least two days and guards would not allow him to wear a sling, a royal
...Horn Island commemorates 75th anniversary of Japanese bombing raids
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One of Australia's most important but little known defence bases is marking 75 years since the beginning of an
...'Detainees threatened my daughters': Former guard describes daily life at Don Dale
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A guard has told the royal commission into youth detention that daily life in Don Dale involved detainees who would want to punch him, spit at him
...Massive jump in penalty for defacing Tasmanian Aboriginal relics
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The penalty for deliberately damaging Aboriginal relics will jump from $1,570 to a maximum of $1.57 million under new legislation tabled by the Tasmanian
...'No appetite for innovation' to tackle Indigenous disadvantage
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An Indigenous organisation training kids to be health ambassadors in their communities says Australian governments have no appetite for innovation in efforts to close the
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