All of us have lost loved ones. Each of us know First Nations women and children who have been murdered and disappeared. This inquiry was welcome – but its recommendations fall far short of justice.
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There is an urgent need to address the high rates of violence against Indigenous women and children. Australia has been silent on these issues for too long.
Research shows that Indigenous women are at greatest risk of injury within Canada. Income, education and housing inequities play a role. So does systemic racism and post-colonial trauma.
The word Squ-w has an innocent origin, but its use in English has long been derogatory and racist. Place names which use this word should be changed.
Was academic Marcia Langton right about the rate of violence against Indigenous women?
Top contributors
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Director of Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Monash University
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Lecturer/Research Fellow in Housing and Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor, University of British Columbia
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M. Anne George is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor Emerita Pediatrics, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Calgary
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Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Co-Founder and Managing Director of Her Story, lead on U Right Sis? project, Indigenous Knowledge
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Co-coordinator of Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group, Indigenous Knowledge
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Co-coordinator of the Tangentyere Youth Safety Group, and Northern Territory Aboriginal Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence Advisory Group, Indigenous Knowledge
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University