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lmost a year after he was first scheduled to answer questions at the Kumanjayi Walker coronial inquest, former NT Police constable Zachary Rolfe has had his evidence delayed for a fourth time.

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The court attendant presses play on the video file. Heavily tattooed arms appear on screen. Time coding identifies the film as recorded on 9 November 2019 by an AXON BODY police-issue camera. The tattooed arms bring forward an A4 sheet of paper, a printed map, before sliding it away onto the dashboard of the moving car. Muted blue of a sunset sky frames the interior of the car. A right arm gestures into the near distance and the left arm moves to open the passenger-side door. The car has not yet come to a standstill. The police officer is impatient, keen to go. As he exits the car, we glimpse the blue signage of the Northern Territory police paddy wagon before the bodyworn camera moves to scan the wider scene. Red earth ground. Wind-swept detritus clings to a chest-high cyclone fence. Sheets of corrugated iron lie about. As the officer enters the yard a small dog barks its alarm and another responds.

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November 10, 2022
Explainer: why is there an inquest into Kumanjayi Walker’s death when there was already a trial?
Thalia Anthony, University of Technology Sydney
The inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker has begun, examining the causes of Kumanjayi’s death.

A police report on the shooting death of Warlpiri teenager Kumanjayi Walker was scathing of the “military police response” in his remote community and described a “warrior mentality” among members, but other criticisms that appeared in an earlier draft of the report were removed from the final version.

The original coronial investigation report by the NT police commander, David Proctor, and his final 170-page report were published on Thursday, after the coroner investigating Walker’s death lifted a suppression order. The publications revealed previously redacted details about the shooting and the subsequent police investigation.

Rolfe must answer to coroner in the inquiry into the death of Kumanjayi Walker
Kumanjayi Walker’s family are a step closer to the truth behind his death, after the Northern Territory Court of Appeal today dismissed an appeal from Zachary Rolfe said the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA).

Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show the Northern Territory's longest running and most extensive coronial inquest has so far cost the NT government more than $3.3 million.