Local Aboriginal staff should have been consulted before health clinic nurses and doctors were evacuated from a remote Northern Territory community in what turned out to be hours before the fatal police shooting of an Indigenous teenager, an inquest has been told.
The NT coroner is investigating the death of Kumanjayi Walker, who was shot and killed by a police officer during a bungled arrest attempt in Yuendumu in 2019.
Just before the shooting, staff at the local health clinic were evacuated amid safety concerns over a spate of break-ins at their homes.
