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The current 12-year National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children expires next year.
Human rights lawyer and women s safety advocate, Dr Hannah McGlade told NITV News the announcement is a critical first step, saying Indigenous women, girls and children are facing unacceptable violence. Aboriginal mothers in my state in Western Australia are statistically 17 and a half times more likely than non-Aboriginal mothers to be murdered, Dr McGlade told NITV news. It s absolutely a pandemic. It s a tsunami, the Noongar woman said.
Dr McGlade, who is also an expert member of the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues, said it is vital Indigenous women s voices are prioritised in confronting the violence.