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'Like a cattle yard': How justice is delivered in Australia's bush courts

By Livia Albeck-Ripka
New York Times·
8 mins to read
'Like a cattle yard': How justice is delivered in Australia's bush courts
Lawyer Holly Fitzsimmons speaks with client Brenda Melpi in Wadeye, Australia. Photo / Matthew Abbott, The New York Times

After an hour-long flight over the ochre sands of northern Australia, the judge stepped off the plane and made her way to the makeshift courthouse, a single white-walled room next to a new $20 million police station ensconced in barbed wire.

Outside, more than a dozen Aboriginal defendants waited barefoot

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