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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter

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

Elisabeth Armitage, centre, flanked by members of the Aboriginal community.
The Northern Territory coroner, Elisabeth Armitage (centre), visits Yuendumu in 2022, during the inquest into Kumanjayi Walker’s death. Photograph: Samantha Jonscher, ABC News

The inquest findings into the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker will be handed down in Yuendumu on Monday, almost five years after the Warlpiri man died during a bungled arrest in the remote Northern Territory community.

Zachary Rolfe shot Walker three times while trying to arrest him on 9 November 2019 in Yuendumu, about 300km from Alice Springs.

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