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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Cait Kelly

Guardian Australia wins Walkley award for Indigenous affairs for The Descendants series

The Cullin-la-ringo massacre in Queensland featured in the Guardian Australia’s Walkley-winning series The Descendants.
The Cullin-la-ringo massacre in Queensland featured in the Guardian Australia’s Walkley-winning series The Descendants. Composite: Ellen Smith/Victoria Hart/Guardian Design

Guardian Australia has won a Walkley award for excellence in journalism for a series on Australians facing the truth of their family’s involvement in frontier violence.

Guardian Australia won the Walkley Indigenous affairs at Thursday night’s ceremony for the The Descendants series, which built on Guardian Australia’s 2019 Walkley award-winning series The Killing Times. The series explored the deeply personal process of truth-telling about some of the most horrific incidents in Australia’s past, from both sides of the frontier.

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