Advocates, frontline workers, police, politicians and victim's families marched through Casaurina Shopping Centre. Part of an ongoing 16 days of activism against domestic violence. It comes after a landmark inquest confirmed the system is severely overcrowded and underfunded with no real change on the way yet.
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00:00A simple message on a complex issue calls for an end to domestic violence as relevant
00:08now as ever.
00:09Alarmingly, the NT rates of domestic violence and family violence are among the highest
00:10in the nation.
00:11And they're not just statistics.
00:12They live realities for too many people, too many families, too many neighbours, too many
00:23friends.
00:24Today was an opportunity for different organisations, frontline services, advocates and the families
00:30of victims to come together.
00:33Courtney's mum was murdered by her partner.
00:35She's now speaking out about the systems that failed her.
00:39What I'm about to talk about is not new news to you guys.
00:43You know that this is an emergency here in our country.
00:47It is a systemic failure.
00:49In the NT, services and victims are waiting for action.
00:53$180 million promised by the government still hasn't been delivered, nor have they committed
00:58to the 35 recommendations made by the coroner after her inquest into the domestic violence
01:04deaths of four Aboriginal women.
01:06We've seen the result in the past where we rush in to deliver programs that we think
01:11might work.
01:12We obviously haven't seen the result on the ground with the decrease in domestic violence,
01:17so that's why we're not rushing.
01:20But the people gathered here would say there's no time to waste with continued violence every
01:25day.
01:26Some say it's a matter of changing the way we speak to young men.
01:30What the media and politicians and programs and policy portray, particularly Aboriginal
01:35boys, as being good or bad, and it's really about needing to reframe from good or bad
01:41to what's healthy, what makes you happy, what makes you sad.
01:45But if silence is part of the issue, today they're speaking up.