Kate Wild
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first heard Jul 2026
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I don't think to anyone who has been in the Territory or following this inquest closely that it would have been a surprise.
It may have been a surprise that the coroner stated it so clearly.
I think what was more of a surprise was that Judge Armitage expanded the scope and the influence of racism
to the police force more generally as well to say that, yes, definitely Zachary Rolfe was racist and his attitudes and his beliefs would have influenced his approach to that night and could have been a factor in Kumanjai Walker's death, but also that some of the responsibility for that lay with the Northern Territory Police Force, which was an organisation that showed the hallmarks of institutional racism, and that because there were senior members within the police force who were responsible for Zachary Rolfe and who were
sort of colluding with him in his behaviour and encouraging him in it, he was left immune to any kind of censure.
He was sort of encouraged to keep going.
No-one ever told him that what he was doing was not OK.
I think that's been one of the most interesting things for me to watch over the sort of now almost six years since Kumanjai Walker's death.
It was really evident during Zachary Rolfe's murder trial that there was a sort of internal battle going on within the Northern Territory Police Force for who would rule the culture.
And it was a battle between, you know, what are known up here as bush cops and town cops.
they're really loose terms, but bush cops, you know, people who work out in remote communities and are much more focused on community policing, which is based on relationships and de-escalation, they still face some really dangerous situations, you know, often in really isolated settings.
But it's a much more humanistic approach, I guess you could say.
Whereas the loose term town cops, which really in this instance sort of refers to Zachary Rolfe's style of policing of
sort of cowboy, Rambo, we're the tough guys, we're dominating sort of culture.
There's been a battle between those two groups since Kumanjai Walker's death to see who will gain the upper hand within the Northern Territory Police Force.
The coroner certainly, in her findings, has supported the bush cop culture.
The Northern Territory Police Force executive has come out and said that that is definitely the kind of culture that they want to promote and that they want to be known for as Northern Territory Police officers.
But they have a real fight on their hands because that's not how all frontline police officers want to police.
I mean, one of the strongest findings that the coroner made was that the Northern Territory Police should work with the Yundamu leadership to work out the circumstances in which police don't carry guns in community.
So certainly they've been supported by the coroner in that desire for sort of more self-determination, no guns in remote communities.
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