Hundreds of men march against domestic violence in Alice Springs

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Hundreds of Aboriginal men and boys have marched through the Alice Springs CBD for the second Ingkintja Men's March, calling for an end to domestic and family violence.

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00:00Through the Todd Mall and onto the Town Council, men and boys taking the lead, calling for

00:12ownership and change led by men.

00:15We can't be what we can't see.

00:20If we can't see it, how can we be it?

00:25The territory holds the record for the highest rates of domestic and family violence in the

00:30nation, with the incidence of intimate partner homicide seven times the national average.

00:37It's a grim reality frontline workers say is at crisis level.

00:42Every time a woman walks into our emergency department battered, bruised or broken, it

00:49is a reminder that domestic violence is not just a personal tragedy, it's a societal crisis.

00:54The anti-government says its circuit breaker program, launched last year, delivered a

01:0033% drop in domestic violence in Alice Springs compared to last year.

01:05But many here today say that's not their lived experience.

01:09The everyday person visually seeing and visually hearing this stuff, there's no decrease in

01:18these types of behaviours.

01:19Organisers want the march to become an annual event, with men supporting men to break the

01:25cycle and keep families safe.

01:28Women at the event backing them all the way.

01:31We are here to support you.

01:33We love what you are trying to do.

01:38We love what you are doing.

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