A senior police officer has told the Kumanjayi Walker inquest that a special unit deviated from a plan to arrest him and it should have used different tactics.
The Northern Territory government will restrict the sale of alcohol in Alice Springs amid a surging youth crime crisis that has left many in the community calling for federal intervention.
After three months of hearings, the intense focus at Kumanjayi Walker's shooting death inquest on the policeman who shot him has been praised and criticised.
TV presenter Matt Wright has made his first appearance in a Darwin court over a slew of charges relating to a helicopter crash that killed co-star Chris Wilson.
The inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker has been told that the officer charged with his murder was not given special treatment during his arrest.
An inquest into an Indigenous man's shooting death has heard the policeman who pulled the trigger incorrectly briefed his team before the bungled arrest.
