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It was only a month ago that Senior Crown Prosecutor, Dr Nanette Rogers gave details about the systemic violence and abuse women and children of remote Indigenous communities are subject to. Since then a rigorous debate has ensued. Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough weighed in with his own extraordinary assertion that tribal law was protecting paedophiles in Indigenous communities. And last night the ABC’s Lateline program aired a story on the Mutijulu community of central Australia, detailing a malignant threat to the safety and innocence of its children among “petrol warlords” and “drug dealers”.

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