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Police no-show at inquiry a 'slap in the face': senator

Western Australia's youth commissioner says Cassius Turvey's death was not an isolated incident. (Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS)

Western Australia's first female Indigenous senator says the refusal of police to appear at an inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children is a slap in the face to victim families.

"It's a complete disregard for the trauma that they have experienced," Senator Dorinda Cox said.

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