Death in Yuendumu: A dead man. A young cop. A black and white divide.

Death in Yuendumu: A dead man. A young cop. A black and white divide.

by Steven Schubert
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 14/10/2025

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Where everything is black and white and nothing is - a haunting true story of death and a search for justice in a remote outback community


Just hours after his grandfather's funeral in the remote Northern Territory community of Yuendumu, nineteen-year-old Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker was dead. He'd been shot three times by police constable Zachary Rolfe during an attempted arrest, after Walker had stabbed the officer in the shoulder with a pair of surgical scissors.


Three days later, Rolfe was charged with murder, the first time a police officer had been charged for killing a First Nations person in the Northern Territory in 130 years. Following Rolfe's acquittal, a coronial inquest was called, where Rolfe made sensational allegations about institutional racism within the police force.


In Death in Yuendumu, the ABC journalist who broke the story gives a clear-eyed account of the failed systems that led to this tragedy. Steven Schubert recounts the tragic and disturbing tale of a young Indigenous man with a difficult past and uncertain future; an ex-military policeman who became mired in allegations of misconduct; a family in mourning; and a community fighting for justice.


Death in Yuendumu is powerful, haunting, riveting and unforgettable - it describes a world in which everything is black and white, and yet nothing is.

ISBN:
9781460714799
9781460714799
Category:
True crime
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
14-10-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
ABC Books
Steven Schubert

Steven Schubert has spent most of his career as a reporter working in northern Australia. Starting out in Mount Isa, he was the only journalist to cover Bob Katter's election party when he won a share of the balance of power in 2010.

As a rural reporter with the ABC in Katherine he was living in the town when local man Ray Niceforo was murdered, a case that resulted in the controversial imprisonment of young local man Zac Grieve. While based in Darwin, Steven reported and presented the 7 pm news. He is now a senior reporter in Alice Springs, where he has interviewed everyone from federal Cabinet ministers to Albert Namatjira's granddaughter.

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