Kumanjayi Walker’s inquest laid bare the scars of NT’s colonial past, and a community fighting for real change

Kumanjayi Walker’s family hopes the inquest into his death will allow them to share their memories of Walker and humanise him. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

In the red centre, for many Warlpiri people the trauma of the past has been brought to the present with a coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker.

The 19-year-old was shot dead by constable Zachary Rolfe during an attempted arrest in the remote community of Yuendumu on 9 November 2019.