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Shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, was on ABC News, saying there is “enormous distress in the community” after Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe was cleared of all charges over the fatal shooting of Kumanjayi Walker during an attempted arrest in the remote community of Yuendumu in 2019.
Burney said it was essential to keep in mind the “broader context of racism, poor living conditions, and deaths in custody”.
There is enormous distress in the community, which is absolutely understandable.
I actually met some time ago and spoke with people from Yuendumu, and I think the most important thing is to put this in context. And that is that this is the place where the last sanctioned massacre of Aboriginal people took place, called the Conaston massacre, in 1928, which is not that long ago.
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