Constable Zachary Rolfe, an officer with the Northern Territory Police was committed to stand trial yesterday for murder in an incident that has shocked police around the country and around the world.

Rolfe was charged with murder after the death of indigenous teen Kumanjayi Walker who was fatally shot during an arrest attempt in the remote community of Yuendumu in November 2019.

In a staggering lack of transparency by a local court, Judge John Birch ordered the reasoning behind his judgment to send the case to a higher court for trial suppressed, preventing publication of his reasons for committing the case against Constable Rolfe to [...]