Rise in killings of remote Aboriginal women
Paul Toohey; 14/5/08
Killings of Aboriginal women in remote parts of central Australia have jumped sharply in the past year, reaffirming the Red Centre’s unwanted title as the nation’s homicide capital. On average, 1.3 out of 100,000 Australians die each year as a result of murder or manslaughter. But if you were an Aboriginal woman living in the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara lands, you would take no comfort from those figures. One in 1200 people were killed in the NPY area last year. There are only 6000 people living in the 350,000sqkm region that covers parts of South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23695369-2702,00.html
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