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Melissa Mackay

@_melissamackay

Reporter | Presenter | Producer | Found on the ABC News Channel, probably wearing a colourful pantsuit | 🎥📺📻 Thoughts/feelings/opinions my own.

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We've got a preferential system, meaning you'll need to choose who you want to represent you most, least and everything in between. Here's how. ab.co/4les1ls

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This will be almost three years since the coroner’s inquest began, and more than 5 years since Kumanjayi Walker was killed. A significant and long awaited moment for many.

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The coroner's inquiry delved well beyond the night Mr Walker was shot, as she heard evidence about both Mr Rolfe and Mr Walker's lives in the years prior to the death. Findings due on June 10. abc.net.au/news/2025-04-2…

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"What about the ANZACS?" shouted one of the protesters. Presumably he wasn't thinking of the Aboriginal ANZACS, many of them from one of Uncle Mark's own mobs, the Gunditjmara. Bridget Brennan for ABC News abc.net.au/news/2025-04-2…

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"... by around 6:30pm Antony will be telling us not to worry too much about the small rural booths; he'll finish his first bowl of lollies by about 9pm; he'll ask for coffee at about 10pm." casey briggs takes us behind the scenes with Antony Green - elections abc.net.au/news/2025-05-0…

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A 24-year-old Aboriginal man who died after being restrained by police in Alice Springs was from the remote community of Yuendumu. ABC News abc.net.au/news/2025-05-2…

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Hundreds of people have come together outside the supermarket where a 24-year-old man died in custody on Tuesday. ⁦ABC News⁩ abc.net.au/news/2025-05-3…

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"If anything has been learned from Mr Walker's inquest, it is that during the months that follow this latest death in custody, Australia must be prepared to confront multiple uncomfortable truths about systems in place in the remote NT." ABC News abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…

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Kumanjayi Walker inquest findings delayed after death in custody of another Yuendumu man in Alice Springs ABC News abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…

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Northern Territory Labor MP Marion Scrymgour says the federal government needs to show leadership around black deaths in custody and calls for an audit of recommendations from the Royal Commission. ABC News Carly Williams Bridget Brennan abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…

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"He believed in education as empowerment and he was an educator for many years himself. "[He] really contributed deeply and widely there for the education of young people." Elder mourned after 2nd death in custody in NT in the past fortnight ABC News abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…

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On this program we examine poor journalism and lazy journalism but for the very many in the NT who rely on free-to-air commercial news the picture is even more troubling because they’re getting very little journalism altogether. #MediaWatch

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"We are so sad and hurt, so hurt that our loved one was taken away," said Lynette Tasman. "When are we going to get justice? We're humans too, even though we're black." abc.net.au/news/2025-06-1…

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Australia's peak body for Indigenous legal services says the prime minister is "missing in action" on Indigenous incarceration rates and deaths in custody. ABC News Bridget Brennan abc.net.au/news/2025-06-1…

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Police union says Kumanjayi Walker fatal shooting probe shows NT police 'impartiality' on deaths in custody ABC News abc.net.au/news/2025-06-1…