00:00 Former Northern Territory Police Constable Zachary Rolfe returns to the witness box today
00:05 for further questions over the death of 19-year-old Kumunjai Walker in Yundamoo in 2019.
00:12 Mr Rolfe in his evidence has brought to light a series of racist awards handed out to some
00:19 of the Northern Territory Police Force's most elite members.
00:22 The coroner has now released images of some of these awards which she heard date back
00:28 to 2006.
00:30 The so-called Noogada Award has been the focal point of a lot of the evidence about this
00:35 series of awards.
00:37 The coroner heard it was given to the member who displayed the most outstanding lack of
00:42 hygiene.
00:44 The word Noogada, while a made-up word, did sound Indigenous and the coroner heard it
00:49 had racist connotations.
00:52 We've also heard that the Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy was made
00:56 aware of these awards six months before they were made public by the Northern Territory
01:02 Coroner.
01:03 Michael Murphy, the police commissioner, has now been invited to front the inquest himself.
01:09 While the TRG was not involved in the arrest of Kumunjai Walker in 2019, the Northern Territory
01:15 Coroner throughout this almost two-year inquiry has been examining the culture of the Northern
01:21 Territory Police Force.
01:22 And so this has formed quite a significant part of the inquest's evidence so far.
01:28 Former Constable Zachary Rolfe is no longer a serving member of the Northern Territory
01:32 Police Force and he is expected to continue giving evidence throughout today and tomorrow
01:37 when the inquest is expected to wrap up.
01:40 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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