Kate Wild

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66 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4 Jul

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

But I guess the community is at the mercy of powers greater than them.

Government's willingness to support change, to fund change.

I think there's a level of cynicism and resignation that all of this paperwork and all of this talking happens and then that's the end of it.

So I think a lot of people don't have a lot of expectations, but I think there's reason to have hope that at least a position like the coroner's is very much in support of what the community has asked for.

I think there's an extra layer of grief at the moment because there's been another death in custody of a young Walpuree man quite recently.

And that sort of, on its own, has opened up a lot of old wounds.

But sitting, listening to the coroner read out some of her recommendations and findings yesterday, in which she also went back through quite a few of the details of Kumanjai's actual death...

I think those wounds were really reopened again in a very visceral sort of way.

There was no reaction from people when the coroner finished speaking at the end of about 45 minutes of the presentation.

And people just sort of

melted away reasonably quickly, and the space was left kind of empty.

No, I don't.

I don't think reports... I mean, I think they're worthwhile.

I think what the coroner has produced is a slab of history and a story that bears witness to one of the latest chapters in the Northern Territory's history of relationships between First Nations people and the police.

But, you know, there are supermarket trolleys full of reports all over the country into things like this and none of them have managed to make the changes that are necessary...

I don't know what will make that change other than continued pressure from the broader community on the political system.

It feels like a really lame answer, but I don't know that anyone has the answer to what will make the change happen.

Otherwise, we'd be doing it.

Enormous.

It's an enormous toll.

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