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Reluctance to report family violence ‘a lot worse than we thought’
Indigenous women are discouraged from reporting domestic violence by fear of having their children removed and the threat of being left homeless.
That’s the conclusion of a University of Melbourne study led by Professor Marcia Langton published by ANROWS which examined cross-border communities in…
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
- Brisbane Times
Government figures cited in the research suggested intimate partner violence for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people occurred at five times the…
Co-author Tahlia Eastman, a research fellow in the Indigenous Unit and PhD candidate under Professor Langton, said an Aboriginal-led team went into the…