Police, frontline service workers, and campaigners joined forces today in Darwin, taking part in the launch of the UN's 16 days of action against gendered-based violence. It comes amidst calls for increased funding in the NT, following the harrowing information emerging from the coronial inquest into the domestic-violence-related deaths of four Aboriginal women.
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00:00 16 days of activism calling for an end to an epidemic of violence.
00:07 No more violence!
00:09 Nowhere else is this message more relevant than in the NT.
00:13 Violence is the one thing that's really holding our society back here in the territory
00:18 because it's bringing with it such a cost, a cost to individuals,
00:22 a cost to families and the broader society.
00:24 To paint a picture, more than 7500 people have experienced domestic violence-related assault
00:30 in the NT this year alone, up 24% on last year.
00:35 Over half the people in NT prisons are there due to DV offences
00:39 and people in the NT are seven times more likely to be killed by their partner
00:44 than in other jurisdictions.
00:46 Our police are attending extremely high incidents of DV.
00:50 Some are so brutal that even after 25 years of policing,
00:54 it even gets to me to read some of the graphic details of what's occurred.
00:58 Campaigns and events like these aren't uncommon in the Northern Territory
01:02 with calls to end violence occurring every day.
01:05 It does make me hopeful that more people are stepping up to speak out.
01:10 The march comes weeks after a coronial inquest into the domestic violence deaths
01:14 of four Aboriginal women revealed gaping holes within the system,
01:18 widely caused by underfunding.
01:20 It's a very big issue but we can make inroads and we will continue to work.
01:25 We know though we need more money.
01:27 Today's plea for help is echoed around the country.
01:32 Many in Adelaide are campaigning for a Royal Commission
01:35 following the deaths of four women in one week in South Australia.
01:40 While 5000 people march through the streets of Melbourne,
01:43 Advocate Rosie Batty leading a sea of orange to the steps of Victoria's Parliament House.
01:50 A national response to a national scourge.
01:53 church.
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