Northern Territory the only place in the world where women more likely to be murdered than men, coronial inquest finds

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A coronial inquest into the death of a 24-year-old mother of two has concluded in Alice Springs. The report found that the rate of domestic murder in the Northern Territory is even higher than previously thought, with the territory being the only place in the world where women are more likely to be murdered than men.

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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.

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