Families of missing and murdered women had already told their traumas to coroners, magistrates, journalists and police officers. Was a procedural senate inquiry — bound by time and budget constraints — ever going to be any different?
The inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women gave victims' families hope. How much longer can they wait for justice?It is hard to imagine more harrowing testimony than that of heartbroken families of murdered and missing Aboriginal women.
Families of missing and murdered women had already told their traumas to coroners, magistrates, journalists and police officers.The woman who was instrumental to the inquiry taking place, Noongar Bibbulmen Yamajti Greens Senator Dorinda Cox, knows a great deal about the issue.In the end, though, the sole Aboriginal woman on the committee has wound up feeling silenced and let down.
Senator Cox was particularly disturbed that Australia's inquiry did not recommend widescale change to the way in which data on the rates of murdered and missing women is collated.When Four Corners embarked on a massive investigation looking into the scale of this crisis, the shocking lack of data emerged as a central issue.
Given the gravity of the crimes being committed against Indigenous women and the appalling lack of any headway in reducing violence against black women generally, this senate committee owed it to First Nations families to get this right.
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