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The Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners include a collective Yolŋu novel – and a murder trial

This year’s winners of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards query the instability of Australian identity. And the winners of the fiction and nonfiction prizes both point to the cruel legacy of European invasion and colonialism.

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Tale of Territory teen shot by police wins book award

An investigative journalist's account of the fatal police shooting of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker is among the winners of Australia's richest book awards.

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Father of Zachary Rolfe tells inquiry more must be done to fight ‘widespread racist behaviour’ in NT police

Richard Rolfe, father of former constable who shot and killed Kumanjayi Walker, suggests NT government lacks the desire to investigate alleged institutional racism within the force

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Limited support for proposals in Kumanjayi Walker death

A territory police force has supported some but not all coronial recommendations following the fatal police shooting of a young Aboriginal man.

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Tension on the streets, the mushroom trial circus and a devastating terrorist attack – looking back on Australia’s turbulent 2025

There was no shortage of grim and disturbing moments in a fractious year. But also a prime ministerial wedding, a miraculous survival story – and Valerie the dachshund

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Police cleared of misconduct over officer murder charge

A corruption investigator has found no evidence of misconduct by senior police over the decision to charge an officer with murdering a young Aboriginal man.

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Call for police anti-racism plan to have teeth to work

A police force's anti-racism strategy has been welcomed by Indigenous advocacy groups who say it must be given the resources and powers to succeed.

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News Corp columnist Lucy Zelić nails her political colours firmly to the mast

Interviewing Ted O’Brien on 2GB, the former sports broadcaster says she has been a ‘Liberal faithful’ for many years. Plus: how the Canberra Times portrayed Zachary Rolfe

The Guardian - AU

For the remote community of Yuendumu, there’s no justice until its people stop dying

Kumanjayi Walker’s family says the coroner ‘told the truth’ about racism in the Northern Territory – and the solution is to let the community govern itself

The Guardian - AU

How do coronial inquests work? Here’s what they can and can’t do

Northern Territory Coroner Elizabeth Armitage’s inquest findings into the death of Kumanjayi Walker have sparked conversations across Australia.

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Family 'validated' over coroner's police racism finding

A police force says it won't tolerate racism in its ranks but the family of an teenager shot by an officer say they're not holding their breath for change.

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Officer who shot Australian Aboriginal teen Kumanjayi Walker was racist, inquest finds

Coroner finds systemic racism within Northern Territory police and says it may have influenced officer’s actions during fatal 2019 shooting

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Morning Mail: US attack on Australian ‘freeloading’, mushroom trial’s ‘ghoulish fascination’, Demon downed

Lobbyists are pushing Trump administration to retaliate against alleged ‘unfair’ drug practice; how the Erin Patterson case unfolded

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Top cop admits racism 'truth' after fatal teen shooting

Racism within a police force will no longer be tolerated by its top cop after a coroner handed down her findings into the fatal shooting of an Indigenous teen.

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Here’s some Indigenous truth-telling: structural police racism had a hand in the death of Kumanjayi Walker

After the inquest into the Aboriginal teenager’s death, the coroner found constable Zachary Rolfe operated in a system that failed on a number of occasions to ‘rein him in’

The Guardian - AU

One report, 33 recommendations, but Kumanjayi Walker inquest findings draw on two centuries of pain

The conclusions of coroner Elisabeth Armitage on how similar deaths could be prevented reflect the impact of colonial massacres and domestic abuse

The Conversation

Kumanjayi Walker inquest: racism and violence, but findings too little and too late

First Nations people please be advised this article speaks of racially discriminating moments in history, including the distress and death of First Nations people.

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Australian inquiry says racism behind police shooting of Indigenous teen

Coroner’s finding comes five years after acquitted policeman Zachary Rolfe fatally shot 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker.

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Afternoon Update: Erin Patterson guilty; officer who shot Kumanjayi Walker ‘racist’, coroner finds; and what if Jesus was a vlogger?

Victorian supreme court jury convicts 50-year-old who cooked poisoned beef wellingtons that killed three in-laws

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Coronial Inquest Finds NT Cop Zachary Rolfe Who Shot Kumanjayi Walker Was Racist

The final report of an inquest into the police shooting of Kumanjayi Walker have been handed down by the Northern Territory coroner.

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Coroner finds NT police officer who shot Kumanjayi Walker was racist and can’t rule out that racism played a role in fatal shooting

Zachary Rolfe, who shot Walker in Yuendumu in 2019, used unnecessary force during five previous arrests, coroner says

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: alarm over pokies influencers; toxic algal bloom reaches Adelaide; Oscar Piastri cops penalty at British GP

Calls for a clampdown on influencers allegedly glamorising poker machines on social media

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'Utterly disrespectful': grieving family slam top cop

A coroner has found a police force has the hallmarks of institutional racism, as a grieving family expressed their disappointment in its commissioner.

The Guardian - AU

‘No empty words’: Kumanjayi Walker’s family prepare for coroner’s final report with call for ‘real action’

Findings will be handed down almost five years after the Warlpiri man died during a bungled arrest in the remote Northern Territory community of Yuendumu

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Long wait over for Kumanjayi Walker inquest findings

Inquest findings are finally set to be handed down into the 2019 fatal police shooting of young Aboriginal man Kumanjayi Walker in a remote desert community.

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