“A system that needs to hear these women’s stories”: Indigenous women, police failures and intimate partner homicide - a podcast by Amy McMurtrie, Anya Saravanan, Ayan Shirwa, Emma Hart, and Iris Lee

 This week on the program we speak with Professor Kyllie Cripps (@CrippsKyllie), Director of Monash Indigenous Studies Centre and Palawa woman, about new research she has published on systemic racism embedded in the deaths of 151 Aboriginal women.Kyllie’s research examines police failures in relation to their role as first responders to situations of intimate partner violence against Indigenous women.Her article Indigenous women and intimate partner homicide in Australia: confronting the impunity of policing failures is published in Current Issues in Criminal Justice. Our episode today has a content warning for intimate partner violence against Indigenous women and racism. If you need support in relation to today's episode, you can contact:Lifeline on 13 11 141800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732If you are an Aboriginal person in Victoria who is experiencing or has experienced family violence you can call Djirra on 1800 105 303

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