Nino Bucci

Death of three-year-old boy in social housing fire could have been caused by faulty electrical wiring, inquest hears Inquest is hearing evidence about the 2023 death of Mitchell Thomas at Larapinta in Alice Springs

The coroner told the NT government in 2007 to keep a database about maintenance in public housing. It didn’t listen.

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Correct approach

Lots of talk about bari weiss but not enough about weis bars

The Victorian DPP is appealing Erin Patterson‘s sentence on the basis it was “manifestly inadequate”.

On 8 September, Patterson was sentenced to life with a non-parole period of 33 years for the murders of Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson, and the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson.

Two Australian women and four children escape Syrian detention camp and flee to Victoria The six Australians received no government assistance in their 500km journey from the violent Al-Hol detention camp to Lebanon

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Reckon this could be the seismic shift we need to actually sort our shit out? I’m on the fence. Could make it all worse. Also perplexed that the club thought Zach was going to be the saviour when there were warning signs dating back five years that it was always more about him than the team.

NT DPP appealing this (non custodial) sentence, per the ABC.

So what you’re saying is we should let that sink in

Lethal highways: the Indigenous pedestrian deaths that haunt the Northern Territory Aboriginal people in the NT are 15 times more likely to be killed by a car than pedestrians elsewhere in Australia. And efforts to reduce the toll have come up against widespread acceptance of Territo...

Here’s that investigation. Thoughts with all the families affected by these senseless deaths and particularly callous racism.

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Fatal hit-run driver condemned for bragging about running men down The Northern Territory's Director of Public Prosecutions is considering whether to appeal a decision to allow a young fatal hit-and-run driver who bragged to his friends afterwards to avoid jail time.

In 2023, I spent a few months investigating why so many Aboriginal pedestrians were killed in road accidents in the NT. There was a lingering sense that racism played a part in this over representation, and that some drivers were dehumanising Aboriginal people. And lo: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Has there ever been a greater embodiment of everything wrong with the Bombers than Patrick Voss? No, Steve Dank doesn’t count

One of the great joints

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.

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Was sure it would be Rip Rip Woodchip #hottest100

She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started.

Well this was terrifying www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/b...

Kumanjayi Walker inquest findings will bring ‘lasting reform’ to NT police, says anti-racism officer Both NT police and Territory government claim ‘much has changed’ in six years since 19-year-old was shot dead by police officer in Yuendumu

An important follow on the Walker findings:

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One report, 33 recommendations, but Kumanjayi Walker inquest findings draw on centuries of pain The conclusions of coroner Elisabeth Armitage on how similar deaths could be prevented reflect the impact of colonial massacres and domestic abuse

Spent yesterday in Yuendumu, a place I’d wrote about and thought about for the past five years but never visited

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Australian mushroom murders: Erin Patterson guilty verdict ends weeks of laborious detail and ghoulish fascination Victorian jury convicts 50-year-old who poisoned her in-laws with death cap mushrooms, killing three

On ghouls, a triple murder, tragedy

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Way more through East Gippsland than I’ve ever seen before too (have been travelling regularly down there for 15+ years)

The consulting firm allegedly offering private deals and collecting signatures to smooth way for Empire Energy gas sales Exclusive: Leaked documents claim Good Advice promised private deals, gathered signatures and hired land council members to smooth way for Northern Territory gas sales

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A brilliant investigation by @lisacox.bsky.social

#origin

Former sports presenter and CURRENT Port Adelaide board member Warren Tredrea has cited pseudolaw/sovereign citizen ideas when telling a court he's already paid Nine costs for a failed appeal for being sacked for refusing to get vaccinated

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Bailey Smith hits the right note at Geelong but he is no showstopper | Jonathan Horn The Cats midfielder has starred since moving from the Bulldogs as his frantic, full-pelt way suits the way his new team seeks to play

The Horn of Reason sounds again.

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‘Astounding’ negligence revealed: governments turn blind eye to staggering prison death toll Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds 57 inmates across Australia killed themselves using ligature points that authorities knew about but failed to remove

The first stories from our five-month investigation: Scouring coronial findings from 248 deaths, we found a staggering 57 Australians have killed themselves in the past two decades using hanging points in prisons that authorities knew about but failed to remove www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A glimpse of hope, then another Aboriginal death in custody: ‘grief-stricken’ campaigners mourn lack of progress In 2020 tens of thousands of people defied Covid restrictions to march in support of the families of Indigenous Australians who have died in custody, as part of the global Black Lives Matter movement....

This does so much heavy lifting, bringing the lens all the way in to the individual horror, and then back out again to the institutional failings.

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Victorian man sentenced for attacks on men he met on Grindr says TikTok vigilante videos inspired him Christian Keryakus, 19, pleads guilty to aggravated burglary, common assault and recklessly causing injury

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Bonus points if it also includes analysis from a numerologist about the significance of the date 20/5/25

Longing for a deeply researched piece on this coalition split that reveals Littleproud made the decision while driving along the Tuggeranong Parkway blasting Tom Petty’s I Won’t Back Down from a Hilux

The mushroom murders trial begins – podcast Reged Ahmad speaks to courts and justice reporter Nino Bucci on the first week of Erin Patterson’s trial

A case that has gripped the nation, and the world. @ninobucci.bsky.social takes us through the start of Erin Patterson's trial, as the case unfolds in a small, unassuming court room in Aust. Patterson has pleaded not guilty. #FullStory @australia.theguardian.com
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Exclusive - Liberal candidate Zahid Safi’s NDIS business Willow Support Services is being investigated by the NDIS Commission. Full story: www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...