[Link] Former political staffer accused of three counts of rape committed to stand trial in the ACT Supreme Court

Read: 1/3/2022 www.abc.net.au

Alexander Matters, who is aged in his 20s, was sacked from the office of federal Labor MP David Smith after he was arrested on two charges of rape last year. Police began investigating in August when a woman went to police with a complaint about an incident that allegedly occurred in April.

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[Link] After 'very, very long fight', NT Stolen Generations survivors to be compensated

Read: 5/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

The head of the Northern Territory's Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation has welcomed the Commonwealth's new $378 million redress scheme for people forcibly removed from their families as children.

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