Mr Djerrkura's home in north-eastern Arnhem Land was the site of Australia's first land-rights campaign in 1963, when a collection of clans known as the Yolngu sent a petition written on bark to Canberra, the Australian capital, objecting to the mining of bauxite on their land by Nabalco, a Swiss-Australian company.

ECONOMIST: The aboriginal patterns that haunt Australia | The

Written by Judge Daphna Blatman Kedrai and partly published in response to a media petition, the report said there was evidence to suggest that failures by members of the Israel Prison Service caused the prisoner's death.

BBC: Israel says Prisoner X 'Ben Zygier' hanged himself