Centre for Independent Studies commentator Jacinta Price says the fact that 23 per cent of partner homicide victims in Australia are Indigenous “is an absolute crisis considering Indigenous Australians make up only three per cent of the population”.
Ms Price told Sky News for those who have lived by traditional cultural law “we know that as females we are secondary to males” and that there are “very real punishments if we do the wrong thing”.
“The argument often from the left is that we need to recognise customary law and I am absolutely perplexed when these suggestions,” she said. “I know of circumstances where women are targeted and it is all because of the law that governs us to this day. It shouldn’t be the case.
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