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The murder of a boy in Australia horrifies Aboriginals

The country has another reckoning with racism

People gather and hold signs during a rally for Cassius Turvey at Forrest Place in Perth, Wednesday, November 2, 2022. Cassius Turvey, 15, was allegedly bashed with a metal pole while walking home from school with friends in Middle Swan in October 2022. (AAP Image/Richard Wainwright) NO ARCHIVING ** STRICTLY EDITORIAL USE ONLY **
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THE LAST picture of Cassius Turvey, a 15-year-old Aboriginal boy of Western Australia’s Noongar and Yamatji nations, showed him lying unconscious on a hospital bed, attached to a ventilator. His head, shaved by medics, was marked with a heavy gash. He was “an innocent victim of a violent attack”, the state’s police said.

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