The Latest Breaking News from Kumanjayi Walker

Fellow officer says Zachary Rolfe, who he called a ‘very close friend’, always used ‘minimum force required’ and never acted in racist manner

Body-worn camera footage of Constable Zachary Rolfe allegedly using force against another man in Alice Springs has been shown to the Northern Territory coroner.

A Northern Territory policeman's racist text messages in the months before he shot an Indigenous teenager have again dominated an inquest into the death.

A dog handler who was in Yuendumu on the night Kumanjayi Walker was shot has told the Northern Territory coroner he can't remember what was said when the body-worn camera was turned off.

Senior Constable Shane McCormack says he went to social gathering two days after Rolfe killed Walker because he was concerned for his welfare

An inquest for an Indigenous teen shot dead by an NT policeman has heard the team picked to arrest the 19-year-old was randomly chosen.

One of the five Alice Springs-based officers deployed to Yuendumu on the night Kumanjayi Walker died has told the coronial inquest there were failings in the plan to arrest the young Indigenous man before his shooting death in 2019.

Australia’s death rate from alcohol was at a 10-year high last year, ABS data shows, and more than 1.5 million homes and businesses will get full-fibre NBN access by 2025. (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this column mentions deceased persons.)

An NT policeman was warned his colleagues were snakes he shouldn't trust after he shot an Indigenous teen dead during a bungled arrest, an inquest has heard.

The sergeant in charge of the tactical police team deployed to Yuendumu on the night Kumanjayi Walker was shot was involved in sending "racist" text messages.

An inquest for an Indigenous teen shot dead by an NT policeman in a remote community has been told officers feared being firebombed over the incident.