Overview

• NT coroner Elisabeth Armitage has named Dr Peggy Dwyer SC and Maria Walz as counsel assisting for the paused inquest into White’s death
• The NT Police Force is leading the criminal investigation internally despite family and advocacy demands for an independent inquiry and release of supermarket CCTV footage
• Australian Human Rights Commission president Hugh de Kretser has urged an end to police self-investigations and called for independent oversight of deaths following police contact
• NATSILS chair Karly Warner has called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to convene a national cabinet meeting on Indigenous incarceration rates and custody fatalities
• A separate incident last week saw a 68-year-old Aboriginal elder die in federal custody in Darwin, intensifying scrutiny of systemic issues in the Northern Territory justice system