### [2026-05-1](/feed/2026/05/1/index.md)

##### Crime in Australia
#  Members of Alice Springs' Aboriginal community clash with police outside a hospital where a man charged with the murder of a five-year-old Warlpiri girl is being treated, demanding the suspect be punished under traditional law. This follows a five-day search for the missing girl with large community participation before she was confirmed dead. [https:--www.theguardian.com-australia-news-2026-apr-30-jefferson-lewis-arrested-over-death-of-kumanjayi-little-baby-in-northern-territory ("The Guardian")] Killing of Sharon Granites




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1. [ Members of Alice Springs' Aboriginal community clash with police outside a hospital where a man charged with the murder of a five-year-old Warlpiri girl is being treated, demanding the suspect be punished under traditional law. This follows a five-day search for the missing girl with large community participation before she was confirmed dead. ](/feed/2026/05/1/members-of-alice-springs-aboriginal-community-clash-with-police-outside-a-hospital-where-a-man-charged-with-the-murder.md) _Context: Aboriginal, Alice Springs, Crime in Australia, Killing of Sharon Granites, Warlpiri_
2. [The Northern Territory lockdown extends to the town of Alice Springs as cases of COVID-19 spread from the Darwin cluster. ](/feed/2021/06/30/the-northern-territory-lockdown-extends-to-the-town-of-alice-springs-as-cases-of-covid-19-spread-from-the-darwin-cluster.md) _Context: Alice Springs_
3. [A mother and three children are found dead in a suspected murder–suicide in Tullamarine, Victoria, in the second case of suspected familicide in Victoria in the past week. ](/feed/2021/01/14/a-mother-and-three-children-are-found-dead-in-a-suspected-murder-suicide-in-tullamarine-victoria-in-the-second-case-of.md) _Context: Crime in Australia_
4. [A mother and her three daughters are found dead in a house fire in Glen Waverley, Victoria. Police are investigating it as a possible mass murder. ](/feed/2021/01/10/a-mother-and-her-three-daughters-are-found-dead-in-a-house-fire-in-glen-waverley-victoria-police-are-investigating-it.md) _Context: Crime in Australia_
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6. [The High Court of Australia finds that Aboriginal Australian people are not "aliens" under the Australian Constitution, even if they were not born in Australia and do not have Australian citizenship, and they cannot be deported. ](/feed/2020/02/11/the-high-court-of-australia-finds-that-aboriginal-australian-people-are-not-aliens-under-the-australian-constitution.md) _Context: Aboriginal_
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