Afternoon Update: Possible secret graves at Stolen Generations institution; one dead in WA shooting; and 48 species added to threatened list

The old Kinchela Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home, where an estimated 400 to 600 Aboriginal boys between the ages of five and 15 were incarcerated under the policies of the Stolen Generations. Composite: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/KBHAC

Good afternoon. A new, disturbing revelation has come to light – the possibility of secret graves on the grounds of one of the most violent and abusive institutions of the Stolen Generations era.

Ground-penetrating radar has detected “high priority anomalies” at Kinchela Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home on the north coast of New South Wales. Those signal patterns in “other contexts have proven to be human burials”.