Murder is murder. ⚖️ If Qld coppers 👮♂️ can offer a million 💰💰💰dollars reward…then fly to India to bring back an alleged murderer…I wonder if these Qld coppers 👮♂️ can do likewise in an effort to try and find our Aboriginal ⚖️ women who have been ‘missing’ for decades? ⚖️
Thank you for your comment. The reports you are citing are not new to any of us - and is definitely not new to Martin. I'll address your main points very briefly though as this is one article in an entire body of work which I am unsure if you are familiar with:
1. Yes - 60 percent of women on the AFP missing person's list, who we have identified as Aboriginal are disappeared from urban centres. 80 percent of those are disappeared away from their home communities - these can be other regional communities. The majority of Aboriginal people live in cities and regional areas - this is nothing new to note. It makes no difference showing the proportion of Aboriginal women who live in urban centres - we have shown that Aboriginal women are vulnerable when away from their communities.
2. We are talking specifically about the issue of disappearance in which we are currently seeing how the coronial process and the police are making Aboriginal women responsible for their own deaths by obscuring perpetrators -- and many of the times, this has been white men. This is not based on data because there is NO data at the moment but on first hand experience from Martin working on these cases, as well as numerous conversations with people working on these cases.
3. What are you talking about - Aboriginal women specifically are over incarcerated as victims of violence.
4. You mention the homicide data does not show a number anywhere close to 315. This is the very issue we are talking about - many deaths are NOT being investigated as homicides. And many are not being investigated properly as 'missing persons'.
Your authoritative data is not currently 'authorative' - it is not based on what is happening on the ground - the situation we are currently seeing based on working on numerous cases and on conversations with experts.
Murder is murder. ⚖️ If Qld coppers 👮♂️ can offer a million 💰💰💰dollars reward…then fly to India to bring back an alleged murderer…I wonder if these Qld coppers 👮♂️ can do likewise in an effort to try and find our Aboriginal ⚖️ women who have been ‘missing’ for decades? ⚖️
Thank you for your comment. The reports you are citing are not new to any of us - and is definitely not new to Martin. I'll address your main points very briefly though as this is one article in an entire body of work which I am unsure if you are familiar with:
1. Yes - 60 percent of women on the AFP missing person's list, who we have identified as Aboriginal are disappeared from urban centres. 80 percent of those are disappeared away from their home communities - these can be other regional communities. The majority of Aboriginal people live in cities and regional areas - this is nothing new to note. It makes no difference showing the proportion of Aboriginal women who live in urban centres - we have shown that Aboriginal women are vulnerable when away from their communities.
2. We are talking specifically about the issue of disappearance in which we are currently seeing how the coronial process and the police are making Aboriginal women responsible for their own deaths by obscuring perpetrators -- and many of the times, this has been white men. This is not based on data because there is NO data at the moment but on first hand experience from Martin working on these cases, as well as numerous conversations with people working on these cases.
3. What are you talking about - Aboriginal women specifically are over incarcerated as victims of violence.
4. You mention the homicide data does not show a number anywhere close to 315. This is the very issue we are talking about - many deaths are NOT being investigated as homicides. And many are not being investigated properly as 'missing persons'.
Your authoritative data is not currently 'authorative' - it is not based on what is happening on the ground - the situation we are currently seeing based on working on numerous cases and on conversations with experts.
Thank you for your comment.