00:00 It's good to see a renewed interest, but what strikes me is how we actually embed actions.
00:07 I think when I look at the rates of violence against our women, our women experience domestic
00:13 and family violence at the rates of 35 times that of other non-Indigenous women. Our women
00:19 are also killed at 11 times the rate of non-Indigenous women. So what are we actually doing in terms
00:25 of tangible actions to change these outcomes? I look at the fact that we have a national
00:31 partnership agreement on closing the gap, Target 13, which speaks to the reduction of
00:35 the rates of violence against our women and children. And we're meant to reduce those
00:40 rates to zero by 2031, 50% as we progress towards zero. What are we actually doing to
00:47 see on the ground results? Because I'm not seeing those on the ground results. What we
00:51 see a lot of in my practice across the state is my women are misidentified. We don't present
00:58 as the ideal victim, especially when police are called out and there are acts of retaliatory
01:03 violence. And this is about understanding the relationship as a whole. And when police
01:07 are called out to incidents, it might be that particular moment she's actually exploded
01:13 and she's assaulted him. She's very upset, she's very angry. He's very calm and controlled.
01:19 So when police come into that situation, who are they going to better engage with? They're
01:23 going to engage with the person who's presenting as calm and controlled, as opposed to the
01:27 other person who's very agitated and alarmed. And in that instance, we're seeing that the
01:33 real victim is being misidentified, because no one's actually looking at the history of
01:38 what's going on between these two parties. The other thing that we see a lot of in our
01:43 communities is a real lack of trust in policing. We haven't actually got to the heart of looking
01:48 at the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and police.
01:52 And we know that there is a lack of trust. One only has to go back 31 years for the Royal
01:57 Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody to have a look at that history and unpack
02:01 it. What are we doing to build better trusting relationships with police and Aboriginal and
02:06 Torres Strait Islander peoples?
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