For all the focus on inflation, interest rates and cost-of-living pressures this year, the nation quietly passed a shameful milestone in 2025, ensuring a bleak Christmas for more Australian families t...

The refusal to conduct an inquest reveals again what many black women know: it’s not a place for truth-telling but rather a mechanism to alibi the state and its failures * Warning: This article contains the name of an Indigenous Australian who has died * Pregnant and frightened, Kardell Lomas begged for help. Police found her body in the boot of a car * Read more from Guardian Australia’s two-year investigation here Three months before Kardell Lomas and her unborn baby were killed in a horrific act of feminicide in Ipswich, she stood in the office of a support service trying to get away from the perpetrator, who was with her in the building. Over the previous year Lomas had tried many times to get help. She had disclosed to another support service that she was suffering from brutal violence – including strangulation and threats to kill – and her partner was stalking her to the bathroom and other places, including to those same support service appointments. After her disclosures the violence escalated – the danger was growing. Continue reading...