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The Saturday Paper: The Saturday Briefing
With cropped hair, suit and tie, Dylan Voller addressed the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, established in the wake of the Four Corners report into the Don Dale correctional facility. Voller, the hooded and restrained figure who became the iconic image of the story has become a national symbol, but there is no consensus about just what he symbolises.
“Voller’s supporters suggest a boy innocent and suggestible until he entered a brutal – and brutalising – system,” writes Martin McKenzie Murray. “The allegations – and evidence – raised by Four Corners are sufficiently grave to warrant a sober examination of the evidence. But everywhere is performative ideology mixed with legitimate advocacy.”
Plus: Paul Bongiorno on Turnbull’s Shakespearean battle to lead, and Susan Chenery on the Queensland farmers defying a land grab for a foreign army training base.
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