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Family of Indigenous death in custody victim engage pathologist
An inquest into the death of a young Aboriginal man forcibly restrained by polic...
Lloyd Jones (AAP) 16 Jun 2026
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Limited support for proposals in Kumanjayi Walker death
The case of a young Aboriginal man fatally shot during a botched arrest will be...
Lloyd Jones 20 Mar 2026
Katherine West Health Board backs greater urgency, more action to implement Coroner's domestic violence recommendations
The Katherine West Health Board has welcomed the Aboriginal Medical Services All...
Giovanni Torre 16 Feb 2026
Aboriginal health alliance questions NT’s domestic violence response
There is inconsistent, partial, and at times absent alignment between the recomm...
Dechlan Brennan 10 Feb 2026
Indigenous toddler's death prompts coroner's septic tank reprimand
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised the following...
Lloyd Jones 9 Dec 2025
A year on from a landmark inquest, calls for action continue as NT faces scourge of DV

Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the names and images of Indigenous people who have died.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 25, 2025
Indigenous woman was sedated four times by medics before overdose death, inquest told

A mother of three seeking treatment for schizophrenia was sedated four times by medical staff before she died from a drug overdose, an inquest has been told.

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Abe Maddison Oct 20, 2025
Indigenous legal peak body joins calls for action on Kumanjayi Walker inquest recommendations

The peak body for Indigenous legal services has joined more than 20 organisations in urging the Northern Territory Government to implement all recommendations from the coronial inquest into the shooti...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 14, 2025
Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance disappointed by Territory government’s response to Coroner’s domestic and family violence recommendations

The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory has expressed disappointment at the NT government's response to the coronial inquest into the deaths of four Aboriginal women, which was tab...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 1, 2025
“She has given a voice to those who are voiceless" - Australian Medical Association NT backs Coroner Armitage amid government criticism

The Australian Medical Association's NT branch has strongly defended the work of Territory Coroner Elisabeth Armitage. On Thursday the AMA NT said it supports Coroner Armitage's findings into domestic...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 31, 2025
NT government "underwhelming" in tackling domestic violence

The Northern Territory government's response to a coroner's report on the deaths of four Aboriginal women fails to address "critical gaps" in combating domestic violence, a coalition of community serv...

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Lloyd Jones Jul 30, 2025
Institutional racism in NT Police prompts leaders to urge action

In the wake of landmark coronial findings into the death of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker — which found the officer who shot him is racist and the Northern Territory Police Force exhibits "signif...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 8, 2025
"National shame" - horrific violence against women in the NT

"It cannot be normal that men hurt us women."Edna's grief ricocheted through the coroner's court, as the long-running inquest into the death of her sister Negygo Ragurrk and three other women who were...

Australia warned not to look away from Aboriginal women

The nation has turned its back on Aboriginal women dying in the Northern Territory according to Australia's watchdog for domestic and family violence.

'National shame': Landmark inquest into killings of Aboriginal women shines light on DV

Three years before Malcolm Abbott murdered Kumarn Rubuntja she told the country the violence had to stop. Those words open the findings from Northern Territory Coroner Elisabeth Armitage's landmark in...

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(A)manda Parkinson Nov 25, 2024
Alcohol and racism fuelling 'shocking' NT violence

Indigenous leader Marcia Langton has called for alcohol restrictions across the entire Northern Territory to solve the scourge of domestic violence and rejected suggestions the crisis is a cultural is...

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Neve Brissenden Nov 1, 2023
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