00:00Today, Elizabeth Armitage, the coroner for the Northern Territory, concluded her inquest
00:07into the death of Kumanjaya Emicha. Kumanjaya Emicha was the 24-year-old mother of two who
00:13died in 2022 when she was first hit with a hammer by her partner and then struck by a
00:21hit-and-run driver. She died shortly thereafter at the Alice Spring Hospital. What the inquest
00:27heard today was that the murder rate, the domestic murder rate, in the Northern Territory is
00:31even higher than we had previously been told. The murder rate is nine times higher than that
00:38of the national average. Previously, we were told that it was only seven times higher.
00:44In evidence to the court, Dr Shea Brown from the Australian National University also said
00:50that the Northern Territory is the only place in the world where women are more likely to
00:54be murdered than men. And the reason for that is domestic violence, which disproportionately
01:00affects women. The coroner will be concluding the report from this inquest. It's the second
01:07report she's writing about domestic violence in a year. And it is an issue that is of extreme
01:13importance here because 80% of police time is taken up by domestic violence.
