Brian Ross wrote on Jun 19
th, 2025 at 3:55pm:
Boris wrote on Jun 19
th, 2025 at 2:50pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Jun 19
th, 2025 at 11:09am:
What are you afraid of, "Boris"? Tsk, tsk, tsk...
What am I afraid of?
I am afraid for the women and children being raped and murdered and for the people who have to see all the horror.
More children now are being taken into care because of the violence.
How about you volunteer your women, your children to be take away without permission and consign them to a hellhole, "Boris"? Or are we to exist forever in your Twilight Zone? Tsk, tsk, tsk...
You are deluded.
https://djirra.org.au/missing-and-murdered-report/One message has always been clear – our women and children are not safe.
For over 2 years, First Nations people and family violence experts from across this country made 87
written submissions and shared many hours of testimony to this Inquiry.
Many First Nations people trusted and bravely opened their hearts to re-tell stories of heartache,
loss, and of being failed by the systems that are supposed to keep them and their loved ones safe.
Our people told our truths.
“Truth is uncomfortable. It can be painful. But it must be spoken, written down, and heard. And
governments must act upon it,” says Djirra CEO and Change the Record Co-Chair Antoinette
Braybrook AM.
“You cannot un-hear us now. We are watching, and we will continue to demand change.”
“This must not be yet another report that sits on a shelf gathering dust.”
Djirra is looking to our national, state and territory leaders to invest in bipartisan solutions and real
change that puts our women’s and children’s safety first.
DATA
The recommendations do not compel action to address the massive gaps in data that policy and law
makers use to make decisions that directly affect our women’s and children’s safety.
There is no accurate data on the actual number of Aboriginal women and children who have been
murdered or brutally disappeared across this country.
Closing the Gap data, which is intended to show progress in reducing violence against our women
and children, is now over 6 years out of date – this is unacceptable. You cannot manage what you
don’t measure.
When our experiences are “counted”, they are almost always tallied through a deficit lens. This data
does not tell our story. It does not capture our strength, resilience and courage as Aboriginal women.
Djirra and other First Nations led organisations must be resourced to collect, analyse and evaluate
our own data to inform government policies so that what we know works, our self-determined
solutions, are invested in.