Families relive the trauma of losing their loved ones at a public hearing inquiring into the disparities behind murder rates of Indigenous women and children in Australia. Warning: This story contains images and names of Indigenous people who have died.
Wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the faces of lost loved ones, relatives of Indigenous women and children killed in tragic of circumstances waited anxiously in Perth on Thursday to tell their stories.First Nations women are being murdered at alarming ratesRelatives of missing, murdered women and children are telling their stories
The inquiry will examine how the deaths of First Nations women and children have been investigated, now and in the past, compared to non-First Nations women and children.
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