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Coroner suggests racism marred investigation of Indigenous teen's death

ABC Australia · Jun 18, 2026, 1:41 AM

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The mysterious death of Mark Haines, whose body was discovered on railway tracks in northern NSW in 1988, would have been treated differently "if it was a white boy", according to the coroner.

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