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Ground penetrating radar used in search for burial site of Yuggera man King Billy Turner

Her babies taken, this Indigenous woman died alone in a police cell

[Hilary Whiteman, CNN]

[Bazz Ruddick, ABC]

Mr Thompson and Ms Schollum hope the technology will help confirm what they have long believed — that Yuggera man King Billy Turner was buried in Shapcott Park in the late 1800s.

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Stories like Maher's show the depths of disadvantage suffered by Indigenous people, many of whom are swept into the justice system at an early age, depriving them of an education and jobs, perpetuating social problems passed from one generation to the next.

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