‘Epidemic’ of violence against Aboriginal women in NT is getting worse, exasperated experts warn

She was a domestic and family violence advocate; a leader in her community and the country. But in 2021 Kumarn Rubuntja was murdered by her partner, Malcolm Abbott.

“We lost one of our own,” the Tangentyere family violence prevention manager, Dr Chay Brown, told the murdered and missing First Nations women and children parliamentary inquiry.

During hearings in Darwin on Thursday federal senators heard about the “epidemic” of domestic violence killing Aboriginal women in the Northern…