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Duncan Murray

UNCOVERED: Racial bias stymied probe into indigenous teens deaths | History Defined

Mona Lisa Smith and Jacinta Rose Smith died when a 4WD ute rolled in outback NSW in 1987. (HANDOUT/NATIONAL JUSTICE PROJECT)

Had two white teenagers died in the same manner as Indigenous cousins Mona and Cindy Smith police would likely have conducted a far more competent and thorough investigation, a state coroner has concluded. 

Mona Lisa Smith,16, a Murrawarri and Kunja girl, and Jacinta Rose "Cindy" Smith, 15, a Wangkumara girl, died in the early hours of December 6, 1987.

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