An advisory body of six people is tasked with providing a 'rapid review' into 'best-practice prevention approaches' when it comes to domestic violence against women and children.
First Nations domestic violence advocates and legal experts say they're "furious" the appointment of a domestic violence expert panel does not include an Indigenous woman.
They say the appointment of a domestic violence expert panel that does not include an Indigenous woman is a missed opportunity.The federal government's "rapid review" of how to best prevent violence against women will begin today in Sydney before its advice is delivered later this year.
"Disappointingly, this view is confirmed by the make-up of the recently announced national 'rapid review' panel who will examine family violence interventions." Dr Fernando said he was proud to be able to speak from a personal perspective about the experiences of men and boys who witness family violence."Many Indigenous men still remain, unfortunately, silent when it comes to these issues.
Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth would not be drawn by the ABC's questions about whether they planned to add a First Nations woman with expertise on the panel. "How will we feel safe participating in a consultation process with a body we know excluded First Nations women?"Senator David Pocock also used Tuesday's Senate estimates to query what message it sent that there was not an Aboriginal woman appointed directly to the panel, who he said have been "leading this conversation" and were "furious" about their exclusion.
Professor Cripps appreciated there would be consultation with groups who worked in family and domestic violence but argued that consultation should not omit appointing a First Nations women to the panel and having both would have been in the best interest of those women experiencing this type of violence.She said the absence of a female First Nation's voice was "worrying".A series of gendered violence deaths has brought a moment of fresh national reckoning.
Kuku Yalanji woman, AM and CEO of Djirra, Antoinette Braybrook, said the exclusion of Aboriginal women's voices from the panel did little to ensure self-determination.
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