Violence against aboriginal women in Australia "not really terrible" and "you can work around it..."

The chairman of the Northern Land Council has told the Northern Territory Supreme Court that violence against Aboriginal women is "not really terrible" under Yolngu law.

The evidence was summarised in sentencing remarks for an Aboriginal man who repeatedly stabbed a woman.

Justice Stephen Southwood sentenced John Datjirri Wunungmurra, an artist from North East Arnhem Land, to six years in prison for hitting a woman with a stick and stabbing her with a broken bottle. More...

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