Instead of protesting police brutality, activists should be protesting the high rates of family violence within the Indigenous community, according to Alice Springs Councillor JNampijinpa.
Instead of protesting police brutality, activists should be protesting the high rates of family violence within the Indigenous community, according to Alice Springs Councillor Jacinta Price. Research conducted by Curtin University Hannah McGlade found Aboriginal people are 37 times more likely to be hospitalised than non-Aboriginal women when it comes to non-fatal assaults. In remote areas and in the Northern Territory, the rate of hospitalisation is 86 per cent higher.
Ms Price told Sky News activists are focusing on Indigenous deaths in custody, despite recent figures from the Australian Institute of Criminology that found Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are less likely to die than non-Indigenous prisoners while incarcerated. “People want to be outraged, but their outrage is clearly selective,” she said.
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