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Sep 14, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Tim Swanston

    Australian man and two children found dead in Bali in suspected murder-suicide (opens the original)

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    Indonesian police are investigating a suspected murder-suicide after the bodies of an Australian man and his two children were found in a home in Bali. Police found the bodies of 56-year-old Damien John Shaw, along with his six-year-old son and four-year-old daughter, inside their bungalow at Kuta on Sunday morning. In a statement, Badung Regency police said neighbours checked in on the family after a call from the man's wife, who had recently arrived in Jakarta. Police said the man's wife calle

  2. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Tim Swanston

    Orangutans under threat from fires - ABC listen (opens the original)

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    Indonesia's Orangutans are under increasing threat from peatland and forest fires raging across the island of Borneo. Animal conservation groups have rescued many of the critically endangered apes as deliberately lit fires threaten their habitat. A team of wildlife workers from YIARI in Indonesia rescuing an orangutan and its baby in Kalimantan. (ABC News: Tim Swanston) Rachel Mealey: Indonesia's orangutans are under increasing threat from peatland and forest fires raging across the island of Bo

  3. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Tim Swanston

    Inside the mission to save critically endangered orangutans from fire (opens the original)

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    The lush mountainous rainforests of West Kalimantan are a crucial habitat for critically endangered Bornean orangutans, but they are now the epicentre of Indonesia's catastrophic fire season. On the fringes of a national park in Indonesian Borneo, a team of rangers and animal rescuers snake their way through the bush. Dry leaves crunch underfoot as green foliage gives way to hectares of burnt land. A thick haze of smoke fills the air as nearby peatland and forest fires continue to rage. The rang

  4. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Tim Swanston

    Four Australians investigated over alleged Bali bar assault that left Perth man dead (opens the original)

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    Perth grandfather Paul Dougan died more than two weeks after he was allegedly assaulted at a bar in Bali. Indonesian police are investigating four Australians they suspect were involved, who left Bali the day after the alleged attack. Police say Mr Dougan was assaulted after intervening when one of the men struck a woman. Indonesian police have identified four Australian men in connection with the death of a "much-loved" Perth grandfather after an alleged assault at a bar in Bali. Police said Pa

  5. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Tim Swanston

    Lone doctor's plea for help in quake-struck Indonesia as 40,000 displaced (opens the original)

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    A young doctor says she has felt overwhelmed tending to injured patients by herself in a makeshift hospital on the earthquake-struck island of Flores. At least 70 people were killed and almost 1,200 others injured in the powerful magnitude-7.7 earthquake. Communities are pleading for more support as the number of people injured and displaced continues to climb. As the scale of Saturday's deadly earthquake in eastern Indonesia emerged, a post on social media went viral. "I am physically unable to

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