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Jamie Oliver children’s book pulled from shelves amid controversy over depiction of First Nations Australians

Jamie Oliver children’s book pulled from shelves amid controversy over depiction of First Nations Australians

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A children’s book written by British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been withdrawn from sale after it was criticised for causing offense to First Nation Australians. The Guardian newspaper reported Saturday (9 November) that the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation had condemned Billy And The Epic Escape, which was published earlier this year. The group criticised one of the subplots of the book, which tells the story of a First Nations girl living in foster care, for contributing to the “erasure, trivialisation, and stereotyping of First Nations peoples and experiences”. In a statement, Oliver, 49, said he was “devastated” to have caused offence and apologised “wholeheartedly”. “It was never my intention to misinterpret this deeply painful issue,” he said. “Together with my publishers we have decided to withdraw the book from sale.” First Nation campaigners were particularly …

3 Bodies in Mexico Are Identified as Missing Australians and American

3 Bodies in Mexico Are Identified as Missing Australians and American

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Three bodies that were found in the Mexican state of Baja California last week have been identified as those of three tourists from Australia and the United States who had disappeared days earlier, the Mexican authorities said on Sunday. The bodies were confirmed to be those of Callum and Jake Robinson, two brothers from Perth, Australia, and Jack Carter Rhoad of San Diego, the Baja California attorney general’s office said in a statement. “The confirmation comes after the victims’ families were able to identify them, without the need for genetic testing,” the statement read. The Robinsons and Mr. Rhoad had been on vacation, surfing and camping along the coast near the Mexican city of Ensenada, when they disappeared on April 27. The Robinsons’ mother said in a social media post on Wednesday that they had never showed up at an Airbnb they had booked in another coastal town. Early on Friday, the Mexican authorities recovered the three bodies from a 50-foot-deep water hole near La Bocana beach. A fourth, yet unidentified male body, which prosecutors …

3 bodies found in Mexico identified as 2 Australians, American killed in carjacking on surfing trip

3 bodies found in Mexico identified as 2 Australians, American killed in carjacking on surfing trip

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SAN DIEGO — The remains of three people found near the Mexican fishing port of Ensenada are those of missing surfers from Australia and the U.S. who were killed in an apparent carjacking, authorities said Sunday. Family members made the identification in-person at the behest of Baja California state prosecutors, the state attorney general’s office said in a statement Sunday obtained by NBC San Diego. The bodies had been recovered from a remote well about 50 feet deep, authorities said. “The Attorney General’s Office of the State of Baja California confirms that the bodies found in the well in the area known as La Bocana, south of Ensenada, correspond to those of Jake and Callum Robinson, of Australian origin, as well as the American, Jack Carter,” it said. At least two of the three were believed to be living in San Diego, authorities said, according to NBC San Diego. The Ensenada medical examiner’s office said Friday the three victims were killed by gunshot wounds to the head. At a Sunday news conference, prosecutors said the motive …

Mexican authorities say thieves killed 2 Australians, American

Mexican authorities say thieves killed 2 Australians, American

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MEXICO CITY —  Relatives have identified three bodies found in a well as those of two Australian surfers and one American who went missing last weekend, Mexican authorities said Sunday. Baja California state prosecutors said the relatives had viewed the corpses, recovered from a remote well about 50 feet deep, and recognized them as their loved ones. Thieves apparently killed the three, who were on a surfing trip to Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, to steal their pickup truck because they wanted the tires. They allegedly got rid of the bodies by dumping them in the well. The well was located some 4 miles from where the foreigners were killed. It also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer. In this image made from video, police officers stand guard Thursday at the station in Ensenada, Mexico. (Associated Press) Three suspects are being held in connection with the case, which was solved far more quickly than the disappearances of thousands of Mexicans, locals said. The victims were on a camping and surfing trip along a stretch …

Bodies found in Mexico likely those of missing American and two Australians

Bodies found in Mexico likely those of missing American and two Australians

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In this image made from video, Mexico’s police officers stand guard at the Ensenada station in Ensenada, Mexico, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Mexican authorities said Thursday they have found tents and questioned a few people in the case of two Australians and an American who went missing over the weekend in the Pacific coast state of Baja California. AP hide caption toggle caption AP In this image made from video, Mexico’s police officers stand guard at the Ensenada station in Ensenada, Mexico, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Mexican authorities said Thursday they have found tents and questioned a few people in the case of two Australians and an American who went missing over the weekend in the Pacific coast state of Baja California. AP MEXICO CITY — Three bodies recovered in an area of Mexico’s Baja California state are likely to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing last weekend during a camping and surfing trip, the state prosecutor’s office said Saturday. While there has not yet been confirmation based on …

Bodies Recovered Likely Those of 2 Australians, 1 American Who Went Missing, Mexican Prosecutors Say

Bodies Recovered Likely Those of 2 Australians, 1 American Who Went Missing, Mexican Prosecutors Say

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three bodies recovered in an area of Mexico’s Baja California state are likely to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing last weekend during a camping and surfing trip, the state prosecutor’s office said Saturday. While there has not yet been confirmation based on forensic examination, physical characteristics — including hair and clothing — means there is a high likelihood that the bodies are those of the three tourists, local TV network Milenio reported, citing chief state prosecutor María Elena Andrade Ramírez. “It is presumed that (the bodies) are the ones being investigated,” an employee of the state prosecutors’ office who was not authorized to be quoted by name told The Associated Press. The bodies were found in a well where investigators also found another body that authorities said would be investigated. “A fourth body was located. It is not related to the three foreigners. The fourth body had been there for a long time,” the official added. The site where the bodies were discovered near …

3 bodies found in Mexico during search for missing American, Australians

3 bodies found in Mexico during search for missing American, Australians

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Three bodies were found in Baja California, Mexico, during a search for three missing men, including one American, the state’s top prosecutor’s office announced Friday. The statement from the office of the attorney general of Baja California did not say whether the three bodies had been identified as those of the missing men, but it added: “This was done as part of the search for two Australians and one American reported missing.” Source link

Three bodies found amid search for 2 missing Australians, 1 American in Mexico

Three bodies found amid search for 2 missing Australians, 1 American in Mexico

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Three people were found dead in Santo Tomas, Baja California, as authorities search for two Australians and one American who went missing last weekend in the coastal Mexican state, FBI San Diego said in a statement Friday. The FBI said it was in contact with the family of the U.S. citizen but declined to provide further details, including identifications of the bodies. On Thursday, Mexican authorities said they were questioning three people in the disappearance of the three men, but María Elena Andrade Ramírez, the chief prosecutor in Baja California, would not say whether those questioned were suspects or witnesses, only that some were tied to the case directly and others indirectly. Andrade Ramírez also said at the time that tents and other evidence — including a cell phone that may have belonged to one of the missing men and a white pickup — were found and were somehow connected to the three missing men. She said a team of investigators was at the site where they were last seen, parsing through the “tents and …

Mexican cops find tents, search for Australians, American missing in Baja

Mexican cops find tents, search for Australians, American missing in Baja

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Mexican authorities said Thursday they have found tents and questioned three people in the case of two Australians and an American who went missing over the weekend in the Pacific coast state of Baja California. María Elena Andrade Ramírez, the state’s chief prosecutor, would not say whether the three people questioned were considered possible suspects or witnesses in the case. She said only that some were tied directly to the case, and others indirectly. But Andrade Ramírez said evidence found along with the abandoned tents was somehow linked to the three. The three foreigners were believed to have been surfing and camping along the Baja coast near the coastal city of Ensenada, but did not show up at their planned accommodations over the weekend. Callum and Jake Robinson.callum10robinson / Instagram “A working team (of investigators) is at the site where they were last seen, where tents and other evidence was found that could be linked to these three people we have under investigation,” Andrade Ramírez said. “There is a lot of important information that we …

First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism | Indigenous Australians

First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism | Indigenous Australians

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For Murrawah Johnson, the impacts of the climate crisis and the destruction of land to mine the fossil fuels that drive it are more than simple questions of atmospheric physics or environmental harm. “What colonisation hasn’t already done, climate change will do in terms of finalising the assimilation process for First Nations people,” the 29-year-old Wirdi woman from Queensland says. “[It is] totally destroying our ability to maintain a cultural identity, cultural existence and to be able to pass that on.” Johnson is one of seven global winners of the prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism – described as the Nobel for the environment movement – announced at a ceremony in San Francisco. The Waratah coalmine would have destroyed the nearly 20,000-acre Bimblebox Nature Refuge. Photograph: Malcolm Paterson She’s honoured, she says, to be in the company of campaigners who waged many of Australia’s most influential environmental battles, from blocking sandmining on K’gari to fighting uranium mining in Kakadu and saving Tasmania’s Franklin River from damming – a campaign that led to the formation of …