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Coronial Inquest Finds NT Cop Zachary Rolfe Who Shot Kumanjayi Walker Was Racist

The final report of an inquest into the police shooting of Kumanjayi Walker have been handed down by the Northern Territory coroner.

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Coroner finds NT police officer who shot Kumanjayi Walker was racist and can’t rule out that racism played a role in fatal shooting

Zachary Rolfe, who shot Walker in Yuendumu in 2019, used unnecessary force during five previous arrests, coroner says

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Coroner finds cop who shot Indigenous teen a racist

A coroner has found the death of a 19-year-old Warlpiri-Luritja man in a remote community was avoidable, and the former police officer who shot him was racist.

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‘No empty words’: Kumanjayi Walker’s family prepare for coroner’s final report with call for ‘real action’

Findings will be handed down almost five years after the Warlpiri man died during a bungled arrest in the remote Northern Territory community of Yuendumu

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Long wait over for Kumanjayi Walker inquest findings

Inquest findings are finally set to be handed down into the 2019 fatal police shooting of young Aboriginal man Kumanjayi Walker in a remote desert community.

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Australian Human Rights Commission president calls for end to police investigating deaths in police custody

Hugh de Kretser said independent police oversight authorities should be established in all jurisdictions to stem the ‘mistrust and injustice’ of police investigating themselves

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Findings loom on Indigenous teen fatally shot by police

A coroner will hand down her findings into the death of Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker, who was shot dead by a police officer at a outback community.

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Double mental health beds, coroner tells government

The NT government should urgently fund the doubling of mental health beds, a coroner says, after finding that a Tiwi Island mother died because of "bed block".

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Amid all the crisis talks and prevention efforts, 2024 has been a horror year for violence against women

Why, after decades of action and talk, are we still seeing so many women die?

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Humanity lost in dealing with prisoners, inquest told

Corrections staff have lost sight of humanity when dealing with prisoners, their boss has told an inquest into an Indigenous man's death in custody.

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Terminally ill Indigenous man shackled in hospital

An inquest has been told an Indigenous palliative care patient died in custody after he spent 661 days awaiting trial for assault and theft.

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'National shame': the women killed and forgotten

With nine Aboriginal women killed in six months across the Northern Territory, experts are trying to pin down causes of the shocking domestic violence rate.

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Indigenous women are dying violent, preventable deaths. Endless inquiries won’t help unless we act

Recently, a landmark coronial inquiry into the deaths of four Indigenous women from domestic and family violence in the Northern Territory released its findings after a year-long investigation.

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Racism role in death at centre of teen shooting inquiry

A coroner is being urged to discount racism as a cause of an Indigenous teen's death, despite the ex-officer who shot him being labelled a racist by police.

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‘Killed where we live’: domestic violence deaths of NT women draw blunt responses but no action

As NT police say they are ‘overwhelmed’ by the scale of the violence, a federal allocation of $180m sits untouched

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‘Absolutely undeniable’ Zachary Rolfe is racist, Kumanjayi Walker inquest told

NT police lawyer Ian Freckelton KC tells inquest into death of 19-year-old it is ‘important to call it as it is’

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Zachary Rolfe’s ego ‘had a lot to do with’ Kumanjayi Walker’s shooting death, NT inquest told

Coroner urged not to ‘sugarcoat’ police officer’s actions as inquest nears end

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'Tell the truth': Indigenous family's plea for justice

Kumanjayi Walker's family members have called for truth as the long-running inquest into his death draws to a close.

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‘Crisis’ of domestic violence in NT needs immediate action, advocates say after landmark report released

Northern Territory domestic homicide rate seven times the national rate, with systemic failings contributing to deaths, coroner’s report finds

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'Whatever it takes': child removal floated to tackle DV

Child protection practices will be examined by a government in response to a landmark inquiry into the domestic violence deaths of four women.

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NT government’s family violence response found lacking after inquest into ‘tragic’ deaths of four Indigenous women

Coroner Elisabeth Armitage says she hopes 35 recommendations will result in long-term change and ‘lives will be saved’

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'National shame': Landmark inquest shines light on DV

Findings on the deaths of four Aboriginal women at the hands of their partners have been handed down by a coroner.

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‘This is our horror’: the grim stories driving the Northern Territory’s reckoning with domestic violence

Since 2000, 81 women in the NT have died as a result of domestic violence, 93% of them Aboriginal – a landmark inquiry is looking at what went wrong

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'Truly shocking': details of horror domestic violence

The killings of Kumanjayi Haywood, Ngeygo Ragurrk, Miss Yunupingu and Kumarn Rubuntja are "truly shocking", according to submissions to the NT coroner.

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Changes urged as shocking' reality' of DV is exposed

Killings of four Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory have put the spotlight back on domestic and family violence just days out from the election.

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