‘Epidemic’ of violence against Aboriginal women in NT is getting worse, exasperated experts warn
by (A)manda Parkinson from World news | The Guardian on (#6M7MS)
Despite having Australia's highest rates of domestic violence, particularly against Indigenous women, the NT only receives about 1% of federal funding, senators hear
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She was a domestic and family violence advocate; a leader in her community and the country. But in 2021 Kumarn Rubuntja was murdered by her partner, Malcolm Abbott.
We lost one of our own," the Tangentyere family violence prevention manager, Dr Chay Brown, told the murdered and missing First Nations women and children parliamentary inquiry.
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