'National shame': Landmark inquest shines light on DV

Domestic violence deaths in the Northern Territory are a "national shame", Coroner Elisabeth Armitage says. Video via AAP

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00:00that this plague of domestic violence homicides relentlessly courses through

00:05our community in the Northern Territory is our horror and our national shame. The

00:12number of domestic violent deaths in the Northern Territory is truly shocking. My

00:18office is aware of at least 87 domestic violence deaths of women, most of them

00:24Aboriginal women, over the last 24 years. Appallingly, eight Aboriginal women have

00:31died since June this year and a sister girl has also died and all of these nine

00:38deaths are allegedly from domestic violence. The grief and trauma across our

00:44communities flowing from this traumatic loss of life is inexhaustible. To the

00:50children, parents, siblings, extended families and communities who have lost a

00:56member to domestic violence, I am sorry.