Full Transcript "The truth about Aboriginal domestic violence Reporter: Helen Dalley DARCY TURGEON READING FROM REPORT: "An examination revealed a multitude of scars on all parts of her body. Her chest is deeply scared from a broken beer bottle. Her left forearm and upper arm are extensively scarred from a beer bottle. She also has stab wounds to her upper thighs and lower abdomen; a nine to 10 inch scar just below the breast from a knife wound. Her right eyebrow is scarred from punching. It appears she cannot see out of her left eye due to repeated blows. The back and top of her head has numerous scars from being hit by metal bars and broken bottles". REPORTER: This litany of injuries to an Aboriginal woman from a remote Queensland community is detailed in a clinician's report after her death. It is sadly typical of the plight of many women in Aboriginal Australia. DARCY TURGEON READING FROM REPORT: "To this Aboriginal woman, violence is part and parcel of her life. She lives in a violent sub-culture where jealousies, arguments and petty disputes are solved by violence. To her, having someone hit you with a metal bar or slash you with a broken beer bottle is anything but extraordinary. It's commonplace." REPORTER: Domestic violence is going on, night after night. In the very heart of Australia in Alice Springs, the Aboriginal Night Patrol goes looking for the bashed and the bloodied. This woman, badly beaten, is taken to hospital and patched up. But, as is often the case in Aboriginal communities, she laid no charges against the perpetrator and soon returned to the same domestic situation. So this horrific assault becomes just another one of the unreported cases of domestic violence in Aboriginal communities. Overwhelmingly women are the victims. But the violence engulfs the whole community, with men and women both victims and offenders, with the Night Patrol either breaking them up ... or patching them up. Some nights it's a constant stream of bloodshed, abuse and alcohol-fuelled violence ... the ugly result of a destructive cycle in Alice Springs, where public drunkenness and alcohol abuse combine with despair and hopelessness to produce a potent, potentially lethal cocktail. KEVIN WIRRI, ABBOTT'S CAMP ALICE SPRINGS: Women got killed here too."... For the full transcript go to: http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/ If anyone does not have web access and wants to read the full transcript, please contact me privately. Trudy -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ John Howard's GST: a tax for a new millenium... ...to a fifties man everything from the sixties looks brand new. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
