Aboriginal health staff not included in meeting about evacuating nurses before Kumanjayi Walker shot, inquest told

There were no nursing staff in the NT community of Yuendumu when Kumanjayi Walker was shot by a police officer, an inquest has heard. Photograph: supplied by his family

Aboriginal health staff were not included in discussions about closing Yuendumu’s only medical clinic over concerns about break-ins at nurses homes in the days before Kumanjayi Walker was shot, an inquest has heard.

Walker, a 19-year-old Warlpiri man, died after he was shot three times by Northern Territory police Const Zachary Rolfe during an attempted arrest on 9 November 2019. Rolfe was found not guilty of murder earlier this year.