Aboriginal women were 45 times more likely than non-Aboriginal women to experience family violence, likely at the hands of white men, the Yoorrook Justice Commission has heard.
Police are wrongfully accusing Aboriginal women of being perpetrators of family violence when they are the victims, locking mothers up and separating them from children, lawyers say. The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service's Juergen Kaehne said it heard cases, most often in regional areas, where police declared Aboriginal households "violent" without any qualification.
" Police's assumptions were driven by racism, Mr Kaehne said. The service's managing lawyer, Emily Yates, said the criminal team saw a huge influx of women accused of family violence. Child protection often intervened when women were accused, the service said. One woman in a regional town was defending herself and a relative against a man who was attacking them both, when the woman stabbed him in the leg to flee to safety, Ms Yates said.
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