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'Drop the knife': conflicting accounts of cop shooting

A police officer says he yelled "drop the knife" before shooting an Indigenous man while a witness claimed nothing was said ahead of an inquest into the death.

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Police said nothing to First Nations man immediately before opening fire, court hears

Police say they told the 27-year-old man to ‘drop the knife’ before he was fatally shot. But the only non-police witness says they said nothing, a court heard

The Guardian - AU

Family of man shot dead by police question why they weren't called in to help

Desley Ketchup believes her son might still be alive if police had let her or his siblings speak to him during a siege. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of people who have died.

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Afternoon Update: Yunupingu hailed as ‘one of the greatest Australians’; female cricketers get pay rise; and Paris to ban e-scooters

Nationwide tributes and respects paid to Yolŋu elder and Aboriginal leader who has died aged 74

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Queensland police’s lack of body camera footage of fatal Mareeba shooting labelled a ‘farce’

Civil liberties campaigner says if Australian SAS soldiers can wear body cameras, so should tactical police

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Protest forces Qld Supreme Court lockdown after police kill Indigenous man

Hundreds of protesters have converged on Brisbane's District and Supreme Court building days after police fatally shot an Indigenous man in far north

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Brisbane courthouse locked down amid shooting protest

A Brisbane courthouse has briefly been locked down after hundreds of protesters marched through the CBD following Aubrey Donahue's fatal shooting by police.

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Police confirm officers who shot dead Mareeba man were not wearing body cameras

Acting Deputy Commissioner Mark Wheeler says the specialist police who fired the lethal shots "generally don't" wear body cameras, which are standard for first responder QPS officers.

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Police who shot Indigenous man not fitted with cameras

The use of body-worn cameras by specialist police is being reviewed after an Aboriginal man was shot dead in far north Queensland. Aubrey Donahue died

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Cops who shot Indigenous man weren't wearing cameras

Specialist police who shot an Indigenous man dead were not fitted with body-worn cameras during a disputed incident in far north Queensland.

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Queensland police say there is no footage of shooting death of Indigenous man

Family of Aubrey Donahue had requested body-worn camera vision of incident in Mareeba but police say none exists

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Labor and Greens strike deal on safeguard mechanism; anger after police shoot Indigenous man; and Israel protests

Albanese government’s signature climate policy strengthened with hard cap on emissions totalling 1,233m tonnes

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Protests in north Queensland town of Mareeba after family say man killed by police was unarmed

Police statement released after 27-year-old Aubrey Donahue was shot alleged he had held a knife

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Protesters take to streets in Far North Queensland after Indigenous man shot dead by police in Mareeba

The protest in Mareeba comes after an Indigenous man was shot dead by police on Saturday.

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