Hundreds at riot youth's funeral

Extra police were on standby near a remote Outback town today as hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of a teenage boy whose death sparked a nine-hour riot in an Aboriginal ghetto in Sydney.

Hundreds of miles away, in Sydney, dozens of police including dog handlers warily watched hundreds of Aborigines who staged a march near the scene of the riot to protest at the death of 17-year-old Thomas Hickey.