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What to do about Yuendumu?

Where black female lives appear not to matter

18 June 2022

9:00 AM

18 June 2022

9:00 AM

The Weekend Australian recently ran a series of articles providing in unflinching, graphic detail, an account of a young woman from the remote Central Desert community of Yuendumu, ‘Ruby’, who was repeatedly bashed and raped by her own father. The depravity depicted in the story was truly shocking. What made it worse was that, when Ruby went to the police to complain, her extended family ostracised her for reporting the matter.

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