Force found fault with acquitted cop
The constable acquitted by a jury over the death of a 29-year-old Aboriginal woman was formally and privately found by WA Police to have failed in his duties on the day he shot her dead.
The constable acquitted by a jury over the death of a 29-year-old Aboriginal woman was formally and privately found by WA Police to have failed in his duties on the day he shot her dead.
The constable who shot dead a 29-year-old Aboriginal woman, as she ignored orders to drop a bread knife, fired a single bullet into her abdomen as she turned to face him, an inquest has been told.
Mutual obligation will be reintroduced in a revived work-for-the-dole scheme that was intended to steer 40,000 Indigenous Australians towards meaningful activities but has been voluntary for three years.
NT police commissioner Michael Murphy has acknowledged racism among serving officers, saying there is a ‘body of work ahead of us to reform some of our culture within the police force’.
Former police officer Zachary Rolfe wrote notes to himself about the day he fatally shot Walpiri teen Kumanjayi Walker that said in part: ‘The arrest was a success.’
The University of Melbourne announced it was ready for difficult conversations about early benefactors, its role as the centre of eugenics science in Australia and its practice of collecting Aboriginal body parts.
Two months before he shot and killed Kumanjayi Walker while trying to arrest him, Zachary Rolfe struck an Aboriginal man in the head but this was left out of a police report of the incident.
A child rapist who attacked his stepdaughter while his wife was giving birth was allowed to stay in Australia as a result of a ministerial direction from Andrew Giles.
The NT’s inaugural corruption commissioner allegedly advocated so forcefully for the arrest of Zachary Rolfe over Kumanjayi Walker’s death, a staff member apologised to a police commander.
Australian football champion Barry Cable has been charged with historical child sex abuse, 10 months after a civil court found he had caused ‘catastrophic’ damage to a girl in the late 1960s.
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