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Western Australia child protection: Calls for inquest grow

child protection coronial inquest Port Hedland Aboriginal affairs Western Australia

Federal Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy has expressed support for Dorothy Papertalk, a grandmother seeking a coronial inquest into the 2022 deaths of her three grandchildren in Port Hedland, Western Australia. The children were killed by their mother, Margaret Dale Hawke, who is currently serving a life sentence.

Calls for increased scrutiny of child protection services have intensified following reports of over a dozen children living unsupervised in squalor in South Hedland. In response, Aboriginal Elders are demanding a Royal Commission into the state's child protection agency and the resignation of Child Protection Minister Jessica Stojkovski.

Despite the growing political pressure, Western Australia Attorney-General Tony Buti stated that a coroner's decision not to hold an inquest cannot be overruled without the presentation of fresh evidence.

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Dorothy Papertalk · Malarndirri McCarthy · Margaret Dale Hawke · Tony Buti · Western Australia

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Pressure grows for inquest into triple murder [firstnationsnews.com.au]
WA child protection: Calls for coronial inquest grow following deaths of three children in Port Hedland [www.watoday.com.au]
WA child protection: Calls for coronial inquest grow following deaths of three children in Port Hedland [www.smh.com.au]
WA child protection: Calls for coronial inquest grow following deaths of three children in Port Hedland [www.brisbanetimes.com.au]