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Amy McQuire

Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman who hails from Rockhampton in Queensland. She is editor of Tracker.

Bring our boys home

By Amy McQuire, June 4, 2013
Shayden Thorne's mother holds up a picture of her son (AAP IMAGE). Shayden was recently sentenced to 4.5 years in a Saudi Arabian political prison.

NATIONAL: A month ago, news that an Aboriginal man had been locked up in a Saudi Arabian prison, and his brother forced into hiding, hit the headlines. Last month he was sentenced to four and a half years in jail. AMY MCQUIRE* reports on their family’s desperate struggle to get them back to the homelands [...]

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Symbolic acts can heal wounds

By Amy McQuire, June 3, 2013
Sydney Swans superstar Adam Goodes.

NATIONAL: Once again Australia is talking about racism, writes AMY MCQUIRE*.

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Court hearings unwrap secrets of Naden’s mind

By Amy McQuire, May 18, 2013

NEW SOUTH WALES: It was two weeks before Christmas 2005 when a cleaner at Taronga Western Plains Zoo came across a male intruder in the laundry.

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Coz I’m Aboriginal

By Amy McQuire, May 1, 2013
Whiteblackatcha

NATIONAL: Sometimes the best way to battle racism is to lampoon it.

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Children tell of a pain that never goes away

By Amy McQuire, May 1, 2013
Malcolm Naden is escorted by corrective services officers after being charged and appearing at Taree Local Court earlier this year. (AAP IMAGE).

NSW: Lateesha Nolan’s four children miss their mother every day. They were young when she went missing from Dubbo in north western NSW in January 2005; the youngest, who was a baby, can’t remember her.

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Aboriginal heritage: between a rock and a hard place

By Amy McQuire, May 1, 2013
Former CEO of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council Paul Morris at the heritage site in Cromer in 2011.

NSW: NSW’s state-owned energy company – Ausgrid- destroyed a significant rock engraving on Sydney’s north shore in late 2010. The company entered a guilty plea but have only been slapped with a $4690 fine, dodging the maximum penalty in a case that illustrates the vulnerability of the state’s priceless Aboriginal heritage, writes AMY MCQUIRE.

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Questions abound following Naden guilty plea

By Amy McQuire, April 5, 2013
Malcolm Naden is escorted by corrective services officers after being charged and appearing at Taree Local Court earlier this year. (AAP IMAGE).

NEW SOUTH WALES: For the family of Kristy Scholes, this was the first time laying eyes on the man who has now admitted to killing their loved one.

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Gumma: A Gumbaynggirr inheritance

By Amy McQuire, March 13, 2013
Part of the Gumma Indigenous Protected Area in Nambucca Heads.

NEW SOUTH WALES: The Gumma Indigenous Protected Area is a jewel in Nambucca Heads’ beautiful coastal landscape, writes Amy McQuire.

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Bowraville’s heartbreak

By Amy McQuire, March 12, 2013
The main street of Bowraville mission in northern NSW. CREDIT: Chris Graham

NATIONAL: From 1990-1991, three Aboriginal children disappeared from the same street on Bowraville mission, on NSW’s mid north coast. There has only ever been one man accused of the three murders, but flaws in the original police investigation and the criminal justice system have meant he has never been convicted.

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We have your back

By Amy McQuire, February 28, 2013

NEW SOUTH WALES: Aboriginal women are six times more likely to suffer a sexual assault than non-Indigenous women. But they are more than just victims, writes AMY MCQUIRE*.

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