When Northern Territory Coroner Elisabeth Armitage opened an inquiry into the territory's domestic, family, and sexual violence system in June this year, it was clear she already knew the situation was dire. Her series of coronial inquests examined the deaths of four of the 76 Aboriginal women killed by their partners in the NT since the year 2000 — Kumanjayi …
The Northern Territory's domestic, family and sexual violence response system is operating in "crisis mode", the coroner has heard, with violence allowed to "flourish" in the community. Government has a 'strong' framework, department says The executive director of the office of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Reduction within the department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities told the coroner the …
The Northern Territory Coroner says police "did nothing to help" a woman who was fatally assaulted by her ex-partner, while he was on a suspended sentence for another crime. Key points: A coronial inquest has been probing the death of an Aboriginal woman three years ago The coroner has found a violent offender wasn't sufficiently supervised by Corrections Two police …