ABC Feeds3d ago

'Everybody is equal at the table': Inside the ACT's Circle Sentencing court
By Elizabeth Byrne

A pilot program allowing First Nations offenders to be sentenced by magistrates sitting alongside elders in the ACT Supreme Court secures funding for another three years.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-25/act-extends-indigenous-circle-sentencing-trial/106839358

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ACT's Indigenous Circle Sentencing program set to continue

A pilot program allowing First Nations offenders to be sentenced by magistrates sitting alongside elders in the ACT Supreme Court secures funding for another three years.

ABC Feeds4d ago

How a discarded coffee cup helped solve a 24-year cold case killing
By Elizabeth Byrne, Richard Mockler, Jenny Ky, Myles Wearring, and Paul Johnson

Twenty-four years after the killing of a Canberra grandmother, a coffee cup discarded on an east coast road trip leads to the arrest and convictions of her killers.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-24/canberra-cold-case-mr-big-murder-of-irma-palasics/106802672

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How a discarded coffee cup helped solve a 24-year cold case killing

Twenty-four years after the killing of a Canberra grandmother, a coffee cup discarded on an east coast road trip leads to the arrest and convictions of her killers.