An inquest into the death of Kumanjayi White, 24, who died in police custody in Alice Springs last year, will examine hundreds of witness statements over four weeks starting April 5, 2027. The Director of Public Prosecutions recommended no criminal charges be laid.
An inquest into the death of Kumanjayi White, 24, who died in police custody in an Alice Springs supermarket, will begin in April next year and run for four weeks. Hundreds of witness statements will be examined.
An inquest into the deaths of Jennifer and Gretl Petelczyc will primarily focus on the medical care received by their killer, Mark Bombara, before the May 2024 murders. The inquiry will also examine police actions, firearm laws, and domestic violence.
A woman testified at a coronial inquest in Cairns that she did not hear police tell her partner, Aubrey Donahue, to drop a knife before he was shot dead by a Special Emergency Response Team officer on March 25, 2023. The inquest is examining police actions and nearly two years of domestic violence reports.
A coronial inquest heard parents of deceased 18-week-old twins could not explain mobile phone usage or why the father retrieved a sheet from a clothesline hours before the babies were found dead in their Far North Queensland home in late 2021.
A coronial inquest will examine whether Bupa Enfield aged care facility appropriately treated bed sores developed by 79-year-old John Michael Henry Allen before his death on Sept 9, 2022. The inquest will focus on the period July-August 2022 and whether his death could have been prevented.
Coronial inquests into the Porepunkah police shootings, which resulted in the deaths of two officers and the shooter, begin today in Victoria. Directions hearings will determine the scope and timelines for the investigations.
An 82-year-old man, Pelayo Del Carmen Cortes Godoy, died after accidentally taking another person's prescription medication from a mislabelled Webster-pak at Chemist Warehouse in Adelaide. A coronial inquest is investigating the pharmacy's procedures.
Nathan Brosnan, 35, went missing from Logan while on parole. He is suspected to have died, but his body has never been found.
Three years after the great-grandmother was tasered by a police officer in her aged care home, an inquest is expected to focus on dementia training for aged care staff and emergency services.
A Queensland prisoner died in prison of a rare bacterial condition after his calls for medical help went unanswered for weeks, a medical expert has told a coronial inquest.
A coronial inquest hears letters that arrived three days after an apparent murder-suicide in Lismore outlined a father's deadly plans.
A coronial inquest hears that Northern Territory authorities assessed that a father posed "no risk" to his child, despite allegations he repeatedly abused his partner and shook the baby.
Advocates call for improved medical resourcing in South Australia's prisons after a coronial inquest into the death of an inmate.
