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Victoria Laurie

Victoria Laurie is a Perth-based journalist and feature writer. She has written for the Australian and the Bulletin, and is the author of Design by Nature.

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Home Improvement: Indigenous Housing

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On the left of the page, Pholeros draws a broken-down house and underneath, a checklist of things that need fixing – broken window, leaking...

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Dividing the Territory: Kimberley Politics

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A saronged camper points to where he paddled his kayak out earlier to greet the whales. Another man has scrambled up the orange pindan...

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His father, Anthony, has since graduated to one of Perth’s higher security prisons, which is also where Malcolm’s 21-year-old brother,...

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