Kate Wild

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7am · How Kumanjayi Walker’s death should change the NT Police · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

So the coronial process is designed to determine the place and cause of a person's death and the identity of the person who's died at its most basic.

But it's also designed to figure out what has contributed to that death in order to prevent similar deaths in the future.

And that was really the task that Elizabeth Armitage set herself, was to look more deeply at this conflict between a young Aboriginal man and a young white police officer in a single house in a remote community in the Northern Territory.

What led them both to be in that house at that moment?

What were the forces, the cultural and attitudinal forces driving each of them?

And what made that a fatal moment of contact?

One of the things that has been most impressive about this inquest is the way that Elizabeth Armitage has run her courtroom.

It's been one of the most inclusive and informal processes that I've seen.

For instance, the coronial opened with...

Walbury interpreter sitting next to Libby Armitage on the bench and interpreting everything that she said.

So from the beginning, Walbury language and law and culture were sort of placed at the same level as the most senior Western legal person in the room.

And those singular acts of...

sort of rebellion against the way that things have always been and taking the risk of making a change like that, that risk of being taken by someone in a position of power, I think maybe that's the kind of thing that is going to bring the sorts of change that we all want to see but don't necessarily believe can come just from a single report.

So the coronial started in September 2022, about six months after Rolfe's trial finished and he was acquitted.

Almost immediately, Zachary Rolfe's legal team started making objections to the kind of evidence that he should be made to give.

So...

having to give evidence about racism within the Northern Territory Police Force.

Rolf objected to giving evidence about his use of force history, about his record in the military, about text messages that were found on his phone and about his disciplinary history in the Northern Territory Police.

And those legal appeals are far and away the biggest reason for delays for it going from what should have been a few months to almost three years.

I think it's significant.

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