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Violence against women continues at appalling rate, says Governor ...  - ''A woman is killed almost every week in Australia by a current or former male partner.'' Ms Bryce said the situation was even more dire for Australia's indigenous   ...

Oxfam Straight Talk summit focus on domestic violence in indigenous communities - Eighty indigenous women from all over Australia visited parliament ... Ms Clarke said indigenous culture had to adapt to give women more options.

Family violence victims speak out for those who can't at Darwin candlelight vigil - The lights illuminating the building will be turned off and candles will be burned at vigils around Australia for the women who have died due to domestic violence. The Northern Territory still has the highest rate of domestic violence in Australia — and Indigenous families are starkly over represented.

White Australia stole Indigenous children. And then stole their victimhood too - Although those who provided testimony to the enquiry are sometimes referred to as the “stolen generation”, they are, tragically, members of many generations of Indigenous children who experienced lives denied the experience of family and culture. The first thefts of Indigenous children occurred in the late 18th century, and continue to this day, with both the removal and incarceration of our children occurring at alarming levels and subject to extreme levels of violence.

Multicultural, Indigenous groups welcome domestic violence report  -  Australia's first royal commission into domestic violence has called for ... The chief executive of the Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal ...

Australia could learn a lot if it actually listened to Indigenous women on domestic violence - For two days last year, a crowd of mainly Aboriginal women from many communities across Central Australia gathered in Alice Springs to discuss the ...

Overcoming Indigenous Family Violence Conference - Professor Marcia Langton has highlighted that Australia's First Nations females are at least 34 times and up to 80 times more likely to be physically assaulted as a result of family violence. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has reported that First Nations females are at least 35 times ...

Violence against indigenous women 'dire'  - THE plight of Aboriginal women suffering domestic violence should not ... The funding cuts to legal aid services in central Australia and the Top End ...

Centre for Indigenous victims of domestic violence being set up The centre, which was announced in January, will provide legal advice and representation for Indigenous people in the Perth metropolitan area. Relationships Australia and the Women's Law Centre of WA will jointly run the $600,000 a year service.

Indigenous staff air concerns over bullying LATERAL violence between indigenous university staff is under scrutiny after 61 per cent of respondents to a survey of racial discrimination reported experiencing it. The National Tertiary Education Union has recommended Universities Australia , ...

Do indigenous peoples benefit from 'development'? Take any measure of what it ought to mean: high income, longevity, employment, health; low rates of addiction, suicide, imprisonment and domestic violence, and you find that indigenous people in the US, Canada and Australia are by far the worst off on ...

Indigenous women travel to Canberra to draw attention to family violence -  Aboriginal women from Alice Springs travel to Canberra to deliver a defiant message — they are deeply worried about assaults of women in their ... Springs last year, urging more media and government attention to be paid to the deaths and serious assaults of Indigenous women in Central Australia .

Indigenous health and domestic violence agencies fear they may fold following budget changes  - The National Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service has about 5,000 clients across Australia . Most are women and children escaping violent  ...

Policy Making As Violence – The Case Of The Carmichael Mine - For instance, in other mining sites across Australia Indigenous people have been offered millions of dollars to compensate for the effects of mining ...

Boosting Indigenous -only services alone won't end Aboriginal family violence  - UNSW Australia provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. ... But boosting Indigenous -only services won't solve the Aboriginal family ...

Indigenous women subject to horrifying levels of violence  - Would indigenous women and children feel safer if constitutional recognition, or even a treaty, eventuated in Australia ? The answer must be a ...

Q&A panel shows why we can't move beyond the basic questions in domestic violence  - But it is a national issue – domestic violence costs Australia more than $13bn ... The decision to not include a woman from the Indigenous community, ...

One in 98 Aussies using homeless services Indigenous people were over-represented in the overall count of people seeking homeless services. Institute spokesman Geoff Neideck said a major cause of homelessness in Australia was domestic violence. Homeless Australia spokeswoman Narelle Clay ...

Australia grilled on human rights by UN -  Mr Shany said it's "unacceptable" for Australia to "routinely reject" the ... He said violence against women and improving the lives of Indigenous and ...

Leaders, health and well-being professionals, Indigenous Elders and police ... regarding families in Indigenous communities throughout Australia. View article...