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Aboriginal mothers in WA jails discuss domestic violence in lives, as study finds ‘culture of fighting’
“There was no way I was going to stand back and let a man flog me, so I gave just as much as he tried to give.”
Those were the words of Leonie, the pseudonym for one of 84 Aboriginal mothers in West Australian jails who were interviewed for a new report on the role of intergenerational violence in their lives.
Almost 90 per cent of…