The Latest Breaking News from Donna Nelson

Family and friends of a WA Indigenous leader being held in Japan say she is the victim of a romance scam that resulted in her being arrested with drugs in luggage she was carrying.

Uncertainty remains over the fate of a West Australian Aboriginal community leader held in Japan, after the organisation she chaired removes her from the position.

It took him five hours and 45 minutes, but Scot Andy Murray came back from the brink of defeat to take Aussie Thanasi Kokkinakis out of the Australian Open, and three more people have been charged with the murder of Indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey.

The family of Donna Nelson — who is a Perth-based Aboriginal health advocate and former Greens candidate — is seeking answers after she was detained by Japanese authorities while on a personal trip overseas.

Aboriginal families in Perth's east are afraid to let their children walk the streets after an Indigenous teenager was allegedly bashed to death while walking home from school with friends. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains images of a person who has…

A five-week coronial inquest has heard about multiple missed opportunities that may have saved the life of the kind and loving Aboriginal woman before she died in a Melbourne prison cell in January 2020.

Doctor calls nurse who conducted initial assessment a liar after she told inquest she suggested Nelson be taken to hospital

Inquest into Aboriginal woman’s death in custody is also examining the affects of Victoria’s punitive bail laws

In her dying days, Veronica Nelson called repeatedly from her prison cell for help. Two years later, her cries are making national headlines and bringing sharp focus to recommendations made three decades ago to prevent the 505 Indigenous deaths in custody Australia has seen since.

A coronial inquest is examining why the 37-year-old died alone in a locked cell despite showing increasing signs of distress in the hours before her death. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains images of a person who has died.

Melbourne coroner’s court hears audio of the 37-year-old Yorta Yorta woman screaming in pain in her prison cell