For the remote community of Yuendumu, there’s no justice until its people stop dying

Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves is a senior Warlpiri elder in Yuendumu and the grandfather of Kumanjayi White. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

As the sun starts to fall over Yuendumu, boys descend on the football oval. They take miraculous shots at goal from the boundary, puffs of orange dust sent into the air with every kick.

Earlier that day, with the desert sun still high in a cloudless sky, the Northern Territory coroner, Elisabeth Armitage, spoke in the centre of a semi-circle of plastic chairs about another Warlpiri boy, Kumanjayi Walker.