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Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy supports Dorothy Papertalk's call for a coronial inquest into the 2022 murders of Papertalk’s three grandchildren in Port Hedland, Western Australia. Despite the federal minister’s backing and increasing political pressure, WA Attorney-General Tony Buti maintains that an inquest will only proceed if new evidence is presented. This comes amid criticism over child neglect issues highlighted by reports of unsupervised children living in poor conditions.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-05,
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Story summary
In July 2022, Margaret Dale Hawke murdered three of her children—ages 10, 7, and 4 months—by stabbing, strangling, and suffocating them, then burned their bodies. She is currently serving a life sentence for the crime in Western Australia. Federal Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy has backed Dorothy Papertalk's campaign for an inquest into her grandchildren’s deaths, urging the WA Labor government to investigate further. However, WA Attorney-General Tony Buti insists he cannot override the coroner’s decision against holding an inquest without new evidence, despite criticism from legal experts and concerns about child neglect and poverty in Port Hedland.
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The federal Aboriginal minister has backed a West Australian grandmother’s pleas for a coronial inquest into the deaths of her three grandchildren at the hands of their Indigenous mother.
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Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy said she supported the campaign by Dororthy Papertalk, grandmother to the three children murdered in Port Hedland in Western Australia in 2022.
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“What I want to do ... is support Mrs Papertalk in terms of her grandchildren and wanting to have an inquest into what happened and the circumstances leading (to) that,” she told News 24 on Monday
“There is something not right in that region,” she added.
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The federal minister urged the state Labor government to continue working with the families on the ground to “get to the heart of these matters, especially around poverty and neglect”.
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But WA Attorney-General Tony Buti has said he cannot overrule the coroner’s decision not to hold an inquest unless fresh evidence is brought forward, despite criticisms from legal experts.
Margaret Dale Hawke is serving a life sentence for stabbing, strangling and suffocating her 10-year-old daughter and two sons, aged seven and four months, before burning their bodies in a house fire in July 2022.
The political momentum for a probe to be opened comes after reports last month in The Australian newspaper that described more than a dozen children living unsupervised in squalor in a South Hedland home, about 1600km north of Perth.
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The report triggered a political firestorm in the state, with accusations of neglect, in a repeat of the reaction to the deaths of Mrs Papertalk’s grandchildren in 2022.
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Aboriginal Elders have called for a Royal Commission into WA’s child protection agency, and for Child Protection Minister Jessica Stojkovski to resign.
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Opposition spokeswoman Libby Mettam added her voice to the growing chorus of support for Ms Papertalk.
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“What is the Cook Labor government afraid an independent coronial inquest will find?,” she said in a Facebook post.
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“Dorothy and her family deserve answers, and the community deserves to know how these failures were allowed to happen.”
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failures → deserve → answers
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