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Coralie Cassady's avatar

Murder is murder. ⚖️ If Qld coppers 👮‍♂️ can offer a million 💰💰💰dollars reward…then fly to India to bring back an alleged murderer…I wonder if these Qld coppers 👮‍♂️ can do likewise in an effort to try and find our Aboriginal ⚖️ women who have been ‘missing’ for decades? ⚖️

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Michael Wild's avatar

Hi Amy. Thanks for your detailed and respectful reply.

Point 1. I still feel a person reading 60% of missing Indigenous women were from urban centres may get the strong (mistaken?) impression they are particularly dangerous places which would have been clarified if the % of Aboriginal women who actually live in them had been given.

Point 2. You and Martin appear rather sure you know who the perpetrators (being ‘obscured by the ‘coronial process’ and ‘police’) are. This is based on evidence not tested in court. Martin seems to say they are all (or the vast majority) white men, despite knowing (if he’s as familiar with the homicide research as you tell me) that most homicides are done by people known to the victim and the social circle of Indigenous women will surely contain many Indigenous folk. This seems neither reasonable nor intellectually responsible. It’s the sort of statement I expect from a shock jock.

Point 3. I’m bemused by this response. My point was that the number of disappeared Indigenous women is much smaller than the number of confirmed Indigenous women homicide victims… I struggle to see how anyone can be imprisoned (as distinct from unjustly spending a day or night in a police cell) for being ‘victims of violence’.

Point 4 My point was that the number of confirmed homicide cases in 2000-20 IS rather close to 315. You/Martin could clarify the point by saying how many Indigenous women you are aware of that ARE missing, albeit acknowledging you couldn’t be expected to be comprehensive in the way an institutional body would be.

Thanks again for your response.

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