Tonight on Living Black - the devastation of Cyclone George to Aboriginal communities in WA. In that blow we lost everything. Saved nothing in the house - all my fridge and all the gear. I only finished with this shirt and dress I had on.



Everything gone. And we meet emerging actress, Lisa Flanagan. My thing is, no opportunity wasted. If something comes your way, grab it, hold it, put your foot in the door. If they try to close it, kick it, straight up.



Welcome to Living Black. Hello. I'm Karla Grant. This week the NSW Police Minister, David Campbell, announced an increase in the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the murders of three children from Bowraville on the



mid-North Coast of NSW in the early 1990s. The reward was increased from $100,000 to $250,000. Video journalist Kris Flanders brings us this report.

VOICEOVER: If the quiet waters and surrounding bushland of the Nambucca River could speak, they would reveal the



identity of the Bowraville serial child killer. It was here in 1990 that the weighted-down clothing of missing 16-year-old Colleen Walker was discovered. Her remains have never been found. Six months later, the body of 16-year-old Clinton Speedy-Duroux was found buried in



nearby bushland. Soon after, the body of 4-year-old Evelyn Greenup was discovered only metres away. In less than five months three children from Bowraville's Aboriginal community were killed. Almost two decades on, no-one has ever been convicted of the three murders. In



an effort to close the case, the NSW Government has posted a $250,000 reward.

DAVID CAMPBELL, NSW POLICE MINISTER: The reward is for information that would lead to the charge and conviction of a person or persons responsible for these particular murders. It's not just



that someone comes forward and says, "I heard this." There has to be some substance behind it.

VOICEOVER: News of a reward increase has been welcomed by the families of the three victims.

PAULA CRAIG, COLLEEN WALKER'S SISTER: Now that it's gone up, and for the three



kids, I mean, it gives us a bit of hope. And hopefully from this we might get someone ringing up with some more information. Marbuck Duroux is the brother of Clinton Speedy. One of his last wishes before he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease was to see a



conviction of the person or persons responsible for Clinton's muder.

LEONIE WILMSHURST, MARBUCK DUROUX'S PARTNER: It's been so long and it'd just be good to see some closure for Clinton's family, especially for Marbuck.

REBECCA STADHAMS, EVELYN GREENUP'S MOTHER: It would be



real good news if someone does come forward and give that information to the police to help us, to help them with the kids.

MICHELLE STRAEDE, EVELYN GREENUP AUNTY: And it'll finally give Evelyn - she can rest in peace, like all the kids can.

VOICEOVER: Despite the years of pain



and grief felt by family members, they've never lost hope.

LEONIE WILMSHURST: The pain's still raw, and it really hasn't been dealt with, and I don't think it will be until we get some justice.

PAULA CRAIG: It might just jog people's memory. The thing that I've always



thought is that someone might know something small and think it's not of great concern but it could be that little piece of the puzzle that could help out.

MICHELLE STRAEDE: It's finally showing that people are listening and that there is a serial killer out there, still



on the loose after 16 years.

VOICEOVER: The Police Minister is determined to see that justice prevails.

DAVID CAMPBELL: These are three murders over a relatively short period of time in the one community and there's a lot of impact on the community. That's why



the police want to get closure.

VOICEOVER: The families of the victims now hope that the reward will uncover new information.

PAULA CRAIG: That's the biggest hope for this reward, is that we will have new evidence and maybe find Colleen's remains and put her at



rest.

LEONIE WILMSHURST: Eventually, I would like to see a parliamentary inquiry into the original investigation, most definitely. So the family members can have answers. They've been looking for answers for so long.

MICHELLE STRAEDE: Please come



forward, because it'll help Rebecca and her family. Look at your own kids that you may have now. You'd most likely be anonymous. So just come forward, because it will help a family to become a whole family again.



Kris Flanders with that report. The announcement by the NSW Government to increase the reward for the unsolved Bowraville murders is welcomed not only by the family members, but the detective leading the investigation, Detective Inspector Gary Jubelin. He joins me



now. Detective Inspector Jubelin, welcome to the program. Thank you. First of all, what do you hope this increase in reward money will achieve?

DETECTIVE INSPECTOR GARY JUBELIN, NSW POLICE HOMICIDE SQUAD: We see the increase in reward as being a positive step. We're



hoping that by increasing the reward it might encourage people that have information to come forward and provide it to the police. It also gives the community of Bowraville hope in the fact that they realise that we're continuing on with the investigation and hopefully that it



will be resolved.

KARLA GRANT: What kind of evidence or information would you be looking for?

DETECTIVE INSPECTOR GARY JUBELIN: What we are asking for is anyone who has any information - be it small, or they might consider it's not even relevant to the investigation - if



they got have any doubts, I would encourage those people to provide that information to police. The type of information that we are looking for is anything in relation to the murder of Evelyn Greenup, Clinton Speedy and Colin Walker. So anyone that has anything that they think



might be of assistance to police, I would encourage them to provide that information to police.

KARLA GRANT: OK, well, it's a very small community, and many people are related or know each other well and there might be fear of coming forward with information in the



case, just in case they're implicated or blamed or embarrassed or even threatened for taking so long to speak up. What would you say to them if they are listening right now?

DETECTIVE INSPECTOR GARY JUBELIN: I understand people's concern. It is a small country town



and a very tight-knit community. I can understand people's reluctance to come forward. What I would say those people, if they do have information, if that they provide that to police we can treat it with the strictest of confidence and protect their identity if necessary.



It is only as recent as last year that more people have come forward and provided information that we were following up as late as last year.

KARLA GRANT: So what should people do if they think they have any information that could help, no matter how small? Some



might think that after 16 years what they know may not help.

DETECTIVE INSPECTOR GARY JUBELIN: Yes, I know that's probably a perception that a lot of people have. These events occurred 16 years ago, and what possibly could new information how could that assist



the investigation? As I said, last year we recieved some fresh information that we followed up. And it could be a small amount. It is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, and just that one piece of information we are looking for, that person might have it. So we



encourage them to come forward and provide the information to police. If they want to contact me directly, I can be reached through the homicide office of NSW police, or they can pass the information on to the Crime Stoppers hotline of the New South Wales police.

KARLA



GRANT: You have worked on this case for some 10 years now. You must have become very close to the family. What has it been like for them?

DETECTIVE INSPECTOR GARY JUBELIN: It's a devastating situation. You have got a small country town and a small community within that town,



and they have had three of their children's lives taken way too early. The pain is still there for the community. I see that every time I speak to a member of the community, you can still see the pain that they are carrying with the loss of these three children. What



I'm hoping - and I believe this is also from the community's point of view - that some form of closure will come into play if we can have the person responsible for murdering these children brought before justice.

KARLA GRANT: Finally, are you confident that you will



indeed solve this case and that you will find the killer?

DETECTIVE INSPECTOR GARY JUBELIN: It has been a long investigation, a long, hard investigation, but one thing that I am confident - and something that I have said to all the relatives of the children - is that we are never



going to give up on the investigation. It's a message I'd like to send out to the person responsible for murdering these children, or persons responsible, is that we are not going to give up on it. I've assured the family that we won't give up on it. We gain



strength, from the police point of view, in the fact that the family are still keen and still championing the cause that we solve this matter. So we will continue on, and that's the message I'd like to also send out to the community that the deaths of their children haven't been



forgotten and we would do everything in our power to bring the person or persons responsible to justice.

KARLA GRANT: Detective Inspector, thanks very much for joining us.

DETECTIVE INSPECTOR GARY JUBELIN: Thank you, Karla.



That was Detective Inspector Gary Jubelin who is leading the investigation into the Bowraville murders. And if you have any information that you think may be of assistance in solving these murders, you're urged to contact the Crime Stoppers hotline on: Still to come



on Living Black - the devastation of Cyclone George. clear



It's been almost six weeks since Cyclone George lashed its way across the Pilbara coast in WA. It was the worst cylcone to hit in 37 years. 3 people died and more than 20 were injured. There were no fatalities in Aboriginal communities, however the damage was immense. Video journalist



Emma Cook went to see the devastation first-hand. wind sot

LINDSAY LOCKYER, MARTA MARTA RESIDENT: It was about the longest cyclone I ever went through. It started about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and didn't stop until 7 o'clock the next morning. pause

VOICEOVER: Aboriginal communities east of Port Hedland bore the brunt of the Category 4 cyclone, with the eye passing directly overhead.

LINDSAY LOCKYER: We was in the house here and she just blew and she blew and she blew. It was frightening, deafening. It took a good week



before my hearing come back to normal from the roar when I walked outside.

VOICEOVER: But the community of Marta Marta was left relatively unscathed compared to some of the others. Punju Nyamal lost three homes and is still without water and electricity.



Resident Teddy Allen, along with five of his family members, were forced to ride out the storm in his car after the roof of his house flew off.

TEDDY ALLEN, PUNJU NYAMAL RESIDENT: We just took a chance to stay in this house 'cause we reckon it's the stronger house, better than



the brick houses. But we made a mistake, 'cause this roof was blown clean off. We jumped in the car. They were all crying, the kids were crying, everyboy was crying, you know, panic now. I told them not to move, just stay in the car. If the car roll over, we roll with him, you



know. We stick to the car.

VOICEOVER: While the residents of each community survived, the damage was extensive.

UNIDENTIFIED RESIDENT: As you can see, this is what happened during the cyclone. The ceiling collapsed, bent me fan.

VOICEOVER: Powerlines were



downed, water tanks destroyed and at least 25 houses were damaged.

PETER CAMERON, WA FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY: The State Emergency Services are made up of volunteers. We do an initial response to emergency situations. If a property is basically, um the



structural damage is beyond repair or temporary measures, than we won't touch it.

VOICEOVER: Some residents are now concerned it's taking a long time for the local and State Government to restore essential services.

DONNY WILSON, JINPARINYA RESIDENT: Really,



at the end of the day, we've never got the help that was promised to us.

VOICEOVER: But the local Port Hedland Council defends the time it's taking to get communities back on their feet.

CHRIS ADAMS, PORT HEDLAND COUNCIL CEO: The physical damage to the



infrastructure was really massive. It was a disaster area. You had power and water just completely disintergrate so, in many instances, you're basically rebuilding communities from scratch.

LEX MCCULLOCH, WA INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS DIRECTOR-GENERAL: As you can



appreciate, it's been a pretty big event, so there's lots of pressure on builders and insurance companies.

RICKY OSBOURNE, PILBARA META MAYA MANAGER: I would have thought that, given the frequency of cyclones in the north-west, that a much more comprehensive and



transparent coordination process would be in place.

VOICEOVER: As chief agent in the clean-up effort in many of the communities, the Pilbara Meta Maya Aboriginal Corporation expects it could be as long as four months before all houses are rebuilt.

RICKY



OSBOURNE: The impact of the cylcone on the houses in which they lived was such that the houses were dangerous and uninhabitable.

VOICEOVER: Before Cyclone George hit, Port Hedland was already experiencing an accommodation crisis. It is one of the major



mining centres fuelling Australia's resource boom.

RICKY OSBOURNE: The demand for resources out of the Pilbara is increasing the demand for labour in the mining industry and putting incredible pressure on the existing housing stock.

VOICEOVER: The lack of housing has



meant that many have had no choice but to move in with family or friends in Port Hedland.

LEX MCCULLOCH: Some people make the choice to move in with family. I'm not sure there's a lot we can do about it. I'll acknowledge that it's probably not the most ideal



situation, but it is a very difficult time and a really big event.

TEDDY ALLEN: In that blow we lost everything. Saved nothing in the house - all my fridge and all the gear. I only finished with this shirt and dress I had on. Everything gone.

VOICEOVER: Still suffering



from shock, Teddy Allen spent three weeks living with his family before a mining company offered him a house for rent. But he's turned out to be one on the lucky ones. Around the corner, elderly women from Strelley, one of the communities hardest hit by Cyclone George, continue to live



with relatives on their loungeroom floor. They say they've been given no indication of whether they'll be offered any kind of emergency accommodation.

EC: How many people live in here now?

DONNA LOCKYER, STRELLEY RESIDENT: Um, around nearly 50, I think.

EC:



50? 50 people? In here. Some of them sleep inside, some in these other two bedrooms. The boys normally sleep in another bedroom, and some sleep outside.

VOICEOVER: Back in Strelley, the devastation is clearly enormous. Its school, attended by more than 30 students,



had its walls cave in and damage to its roof. A teacher's house was completely flattened. Donna has been told it will be at least six months before people can return.

DONNA LOCKYER: Fridge and washing machine all gone. The TV. Plus we haven't got no power, we haven't got no



water up here, so we've got to stay in town for a while.

VOICEOVER: This means it could be another six months of living at her sister's overcrowded house in South Hedland if no alternative housing is offered.

DONNA LOCKYER: We've been in this area for that many



years. We'd like to have new houses around here, that's all we'd like to have.



Emma Cook with that story. And let's hope the local and State governments hear the Aboriginal communities' calls for assitance. Still to come on Living Black - we meet emerging actress Lisa Flanagan. clear



Adelaide-born Lisa Flanagan is an emerging actress of the stage and screen. Our video journalist Jacinta Isaacs caught up with the 28-year-old while performing in the stage production of 'Parramatta Girls', where she's working with acclaimed director Wesley Enoch.



Mash it! Good! I guess that's my head you're crushing? You'd better believe it!

WESLEY ENOCH, ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, COMPANY B: Lisa is a really talented woman. I think she's got an ability to listen to each of the actors on stage, but also to listen to



herself. She's got this kind of self-reflection mode, which is really fantastic. And as an actor, that's really, really useful.

LISA FLANAGAN, ACTOR: I ran away from home at 13. I was on the streets with my friends for about a year. Just went out... just wanted



to be me. Just wanted to find myself. Now I have street skills. To be able to do what I do as an actor and know what goes out there really in the world, you know, for certain characters that I play and stuff like that. I take from different things that I know, as everybody



else does. But just being streetwise is a beautiful thing.

FILM: Sometimes things don't turn out the way we want.

VO: Lisa's love for acting began when award-winning director Phillip Noyce asked her to audition for the film 'Rabbit-Proof Fence'. Action!

LISA FLANAGAN: Just loved being on set, loved seeing the camera work and all the lighting and all the boys doing their thing. And everybody had a job to do, you know. I loved it. I just thought "Wow, I think this is for me."

VO: Although her performance as a maid



didn't make the final cut, that didn't stop Lisa from pursuing her dream.

LISA FLANAGAN: My thing is, no opportunity wasted. If something comes your way, grab it, hold it, put your foot in the door. If they try to close it, kick it, straight up.

VO: Acting agent



Helen Pandos recognized Lisa's talent in the film 'Australian Rules' and immediately snapped her up.

HELEN PANDOS, LISA FLANAGAN'S AGENT: I saw a very magnetic, talented, honest, sincere, funny, sexy woman and I just thought "Wow" and I just wanted to be near



her.

VO: Shot near her home town in South Australia, 'Australian Rules' was Lisa's first film. You're gorgeous. You're my first, my last, my everything. VO: However, the film's portrayal of a shooting scene angered many in the local Aboriginal community at Point



Pearce.

LISA FLANAGAN: To this day it feels like it was just yesterday 'cause it was just so bloody real, you know, all the family, relations, standing up and saying, "You shouldn't be doing this. "It's a story that should be locked away and kept there forever."



But if we did that, there's no way in the world that we're going to make it.

VO: In her first musical role, Lisa starred alongside Deb Mailman in the musical 'The Sapphires'. Also directed by Wesley Enoch, it revolves around a group of koori singers who entertained troops



during the Vietnam War.

WESLEY ENOCH: The thing that Lisa has is that she's really generous, and I learn a lot from that. I mean, on 'The Sapphires', she gave so much of herself. She worked so, so hard. And for me, she's got a natural talent. pause

LISA FLANAGAN: My first



time being on stage was with 'The Sapphires'. My first theatre production I'd ever done. Dancing, singing and all that. I had no shame, never had no shame as a kid. Loved to sing when I was a kid.

VO: To have "no shame" was reinforced by 'Parramatta Girls'



co-star Leah Purcell.

LEAH PURCELL, ACTOR: She sat back a little bit in rehearsal and was quite quiet and I said "Sis, you've got to speak up, "you've got to understand your character's journey." So you know, through giving her that permission she did



start to go, "Oh, OK, I see this", and it's been really great and progressing throughout the show, finding stuff. She's a very humble and true human being and I think that's a great quality to have, because you need truth in acting. What are you in here for, anyway?



Neglect.

LISA FLANAGAN: Right from day one she always says to me, "Aunty Leah's given you permission, Aunty Leah's given you permission" to do this, to do that. She's been brilliant.

VO: With the Sydney season of 'Parramatta Girls' coming to a close, what's next for Lisa?

WESLEY ENOCH: I think for Lisa, the future is just, I don't know, a big open page. She has so many choices that she can make now.

HELEN PANDOS: I think that eventually she will break into the international market. It's just a matter of time.

VO: Until that



time, Lisa plans to start a production company with her cousin Natasha Wanganeen.

NATASHA WANGANEEN: We want to get something

LISA FLANAGAN: Get something up and running where we can bring kids in and teach them to write scripts and, you know, to act, just little



acting lessons, it's just simple stuff. Just to have someone walk away and go, "Wow, that's beautiful. "It's a beautiful thing. They're amazing people." We are. We're a beautiful race.



Let's take a look at what's making news. The eastern Kuku Yalanji people of Cape York have signed a watershed land use agreement with the Queensland Government. It's the most significant Indigenous land use agreement in the State's history, stretching from Mosman to the north



of Cooktown covering 230,000 hectares. A total of 15 agreements were signed by Premier Beattie and the Kuku Yalanji elders at a special ceremony held in the Cape York community of Wujal Wujal.



The inquest into the deaths of five people aboard a Department of Immigration boat in the Torres Strait Islands has officially opened this week. All five people on the 'Malu Sara' died when the Immigration vessel sank on its 74km open-sea voyage from Saibi Island to



Badu Island in October 2005. The 6m aluminium-hulled boat was carrying two Immigration agents and three local residents when it vanished. While the 'Malu Sara's emergency beacon was found by a rescue vessel, the boat itself and all but one of its passengers were never found. The



inquest on Thursday Island will investigate why the Immigration Department allowed the skipper of the unseaworthy boat to make the tragic voyage. The Aboriginal community, along with Australia's film and television industry, are mourning the death of actress Justine Saunders who died after a long battle with cancer. Aunty Justine had a long and successful film, television and stage career with memorable roles in



movies such as 'The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith' and 'The Fringe Dwellers'. Her television credits include 'Prisoner', 'Blue Heelers', 'MDA' and 'Heartlands'. Aunty Justine received an Order of Australia in 1991 for services to the performing arts and Aboriginal



theatre. She was also honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2005 Deadlys. A private service will be held this week with a memorial service in Sydney to follow.



And that's all for today. Next week we head to Alice Springs and take a look at the work of the Tuanangia day and night patrols. We come across anything. We come across stab victims, or we could come across domestic violence. We come across little babies walking around or left



lying under trees by intoxicated parents. That's next week on Living Black. If you'd like more information on the program, check out our website. You can do that by logging on to sbs.com.au and click on News. And don't forget our repeats of the program on Mondays at



5:30pm and Fridays at 3:30pm. Thanks for joining us. I'm Karla Grant. Goodnight.