Rachel Mealey: A remote community in the Northern Territory is desperate for somewhere to swim to beat the summer heat. But for the last four years in Wurrumiyanga, a remote community on the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory, there's been only silence with their pool sitting abandoned. Olivana Lathouris: A few hours away in the remote community of Ngukurr, …
Lawyers for the Northern Territory Police Force have described one of their own former officers as an alleged "racist … sexist … misogynist" and "narcissist, with grandiose ideas about his own abilities", at the inquest into the fatal police shooting of Kumanjayi Walker. Dr Freckelton said NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy — who was earlier this year investigated by the …
Former NT police constable Zachary Rolfe allegedly held "overtly racist attitudes" and was "undisciplined", "dishonest", "ego-driven" and "contemptuous of authority" prior to the shooting of Aboriginal man Kumanjayi Walker, the Northern Territory coroner has heard. Counsel assisting the coroner Peggy Dwyer SC addressed the court first on Wednesday, submitting that some aspects of Mr Rolfe's behaviour as a police officer …
Questions surrounding how a man suffered gruesome injuries at a Darwin public housing block will form the basis of a three-week murder trial in the Northern Territory's Supreme Court. During his opening address to the court, Crown prosecutor Damien Jones said Mr Asera suffered "numerous blunt-force injuries", including "multiple facial and scalp tears", bruises to the head, internal injuries and …