Indigenous women more likely to suffer family violence, Miki Perkins, The Age, January 21, 2016

A new report from Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety confirms Indigenous women suffer higher levels of family violence, as well as injury and death, than non-Indigenous women.  They are 35 times more likely to be admitted to hospital due to family violence assaults than non-Indigenous women.  Contributing to this is a complex array of factors including the ongoing legacy of colonisation, intergenerational trauma, alcohol and other drugs and poverty.  The approach of mainstream family violence services can often be seen as too narrow to encompass the nature of family violence in Indigenous families.

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