Old Timers Camp tragedy shows Australia’s most shameful divide

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The death of Kumanjayi Little Baby is difficult to comprehend, and the grief her family must be experiencing is beyond imagining.

The little girl was five years old. As the Herald’s Hannah Murphy writes, she would hold her grandmother’s hand as they walked between houses in the Old Timers Camp, south of Alice Springs. She loved to wear dresses that made her look like a princess. She didn’t speak much, but she would tell her grandfather that she was hungry by pointing to her belly. She could say a few words; yellow, the name of her kitten, and mummy.

She was taken from Old Timers Camp south of Alice Springs on Anzac Day. She was found dead beside a riverbed five days later. The cause of death is yet to be determined.

She was allegedly........

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