Five years on, no independent investigation into the police role in the death has been held.
In 2006, Deputy State Coroner Christine Clements slammed the police’s investigation into the death as lacking "transparency, objectivity and independence". She found Hurley was responsible for Mulrunji’s death, but Hurley was later acquitted of manslaughter by an all-white Townsville jury in 2007.
Aboriginal activists said the acquittal was the result of a police cover-up and demanded Hurley be brought to justice.
The Queensland Court of Appeal later overturned Clements’ finding and a second coronial inquest into Mulrunji’s death has been ordered for March 8.
