Rex Martinich   

A coroner will return to the outback to hand down her findings into the death of an Indigenous teenager shot by a police officer during a botched arrest.

The family of an Indigenous man missing in remote Queensland say they will never stop searching after a coroner found he likely died as the result of foul play.

Federal government claims an Indigenous win over a mining lease would lead to massive native title payouts across the Top End are "speculative", High Court justices have heard.

The federal government has argued that a court judgment over a mining lease would create "vast" claims for compensation from native title holders across the Northern Territory, if allowed to stand.

An Aboriginal woman who tried to sue the Queensland government over alleged sexual abuse while in forced state care has been granted leave to appeal in the High Court.

An inquest into the death of a young Indigenous man has been shown body-worn video of Queensland officers putting him in a "choke hold" that is banned in other states.

A Queensland police officer has told an inquest he had no option but to repeatedly fire a Taser while apprehending an Indigenous man who died soon after.

An Indigenous man was tasered six times by Queensland police and sedated by ambulance officers before he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest, a coroner has heard.