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Kristin ShortenInvestigative Journalist

Kristin Shorten is an award-winning investigative journalist who began her media career at The Courier-Mail newspaper and reported for various News Corp mastheads before joining The Australian. Kristin has written, produced and directed documentaries including Voodoo Medics, The Boy in the Blue Cap and Yuendumu. She has also written, produced and hosted podcasts including Voodoo Medics, My name is Cleo and Yuendumu: The Trial. In 2019 Kristin was named West Australian Journalist of the Year for her investigation into the death of Father Joseph Tran and has twice been named West Australian Freelance Journalist of the Year for her work on the unsolved murder of Gerard Ross. In 2022 she won a News Award and NT Media Award for her reporting on the fatal police shooting of Kumanjayi Walker at Yuendumu. Contact Kristin here: shortenk@theaustralian.com.au

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KUMANJAYI WALKERNation

Territory Coroner Elisabeth Armitage visits Yuendumu during an inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker. Outside house 511. L-R counsel assisting Maria Walz and Peggy Dwyer wiht Coroner Elisabeth Armitage. Picture: Jason Walls

Rolfe murder trial judge should be ‘speared’, counsel told

An audio recording of the NT Coroner’s visit to Yuendumu captured a community member asking for the Supreme Court judge who presided over Zachary Rolfe’s murder trial to be ‘speared’.

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KUMANJAYI WALKERNation

Lawyer to the Chief Commissioner, Ian Freckelton QC, leaves a directions hearing into the deaths of six people killed in Bourke Street in January 2017 at the Coroners Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Wednesday, August 14, 2019. During the hearing, Coroner Hawkins heard submissions in relation to suppression order applications. (AAP Image/Stefan Postles) NO ARCHIVING

Cops reject allegations of inquest coroner ‘bias’

The NT Police Force has defended the Coroner’s conduct during Kumanjayi Walker’s coronial inquest and argued there was nothing improper about her amending a non-publication order.

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Kumanjayi WalkerNation

Ex-cop’s attack on coroner’s recording

Former police officer Zachary Rolfe has accused the NT Coroner of withholding audio recordings of her visit to Yuendumu and alleges her counsel assisting colluded with NT Police to get him fired.

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YUENDUMU SHOOTINGNation

Rolfe launches bid to oust coroner from inquest

Former police officer Zachary Rolfe has asked the NT Coroner to ‘recuse herself’ from Kumanjayi Walker’s coronial inquest and accused her of ‘apprehended bias’.

Kristin Shorten

EXCLUSIVEIndigenous

Barkly Regional Council Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin AUGUST 2017. Picture: Facebook

Police probe violent ‘citizen’s arrest’ of Indigenous boy

Detectives have questioned a Tennant Creek man who was filmed threatening to kill an Aboriginal boy and pushing the child’s head into the ground with his boot while the town’s mayor restrained the 12-year-old.

Kristin Shorten

EXCLUSIVENation

Constable Zach Rolfe outside the Alice Springs Local Court on November 16 for an inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker. Picture: Jason Walls

Victoria to probe Rolfe complaint

Victoria Police are independently reviewing a complaint Zachary Rolfe made about a detective who was involved in his failed murder prosecution after he fatally shot Kumanjayi Walker.

Kristin Shorten

EXCLUSIVENation

## EXCLUSIVE for The Australian ONLY ## 04-12-19 - Constable Zach Rolfe, 28, charged with one count of murder over the death of indigenous man Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu. Picture By Ryan Osland

NT Police to open Rolfe complaint inquiry

The force vows to investigate Zachary Rolfe’s allegations of serious misconduct against a Darwin detective despite recently telling the complainant no further action would be taken.

Kristin Shorten

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

The Northern Territory’s Commissioner of Police and CEO of Fire and Emergency Services Michael Murphy APM.

Force blueprint: top cop vows to rebuild from the ground up

The Northern Territory‘s new top cop is pleading with almost 250 former police officers to rejoin the force in his bid to heal the rifts in his organisation following a ‘tumultuous’ few years.

Kristin Shorten

EXCLUSIVENation

NT Police officers were forced to abandon their vehicle after they had rocks thrown at them at a town camp near Alice Springs.

Cops trapped by funeral gunman

NT police officers were trapped, assaulted and forced to retreat from an Alice Springs town camp last week while trying to arrest a man who allegedly opened fire with a rifle at a funeral.

Kristin Shorten

EXCLUSIVENation

Troy Thomas flying with Ernie Dingo while filming Going Places with Ernie Dingo at Horizontal Falls .

Death crash pilot ‘illegal’ flying link

Videos sent to CASA of unsafe flying in the Kimberley show the helicopters involved were not only owned by tourism stalwart Troy Thomas but, on at least one occasion, he was also the pilot.

Kristin Shorten

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