CAAMA news team: Lorena Walker, Justin Fenwick, Paul Wiles, Allan Nielson

An Alice Springs based news photographer who captured a controversial image of a young child in a police paddy wagon says he was shocked when confronted with the situation.

A designer drug named after the popular social networking application Snapchat has allegedly led to a number of hospitalisations in Darwin over the weekend.

In Western Australia where an Aboriginal academic is urging for a better understanding of her peoples culture and more cultural training for non-indigenous child protection workers.

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