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Melissa Mackay

NT Coroner recommends sweeping changes to government departments after death of teenager Reginald Roy Yunupingu

Reginald 'Reggie' Roy Yunupingu was found at the base of a power pole near the Minyerri Police Station. (Carl Curtain: ABC Rural)

A teenage boy who died in a remote Aboriginal community in 2020 "was not afforded basic mental health care" and was wrongly "screened out" by a government social services department,  the Northern Territory Acting Coroner has found.

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