Appearing onQ+Awith Ms Tame,prominent Indigenous anthropologist and public intellectual Marcia Langton backed her comments,saying she and other experts had found a clear pattern when looking at police data and interviewing women who had survived abuse.
“Young women go into their first intimate relationship,the person is abusive and violent,and they know very little about the situation they’re in,” Professor Langton said. “They’re not able to make decisions,they don’t have enough support and don’t know where to go.
“By the time they figure it out,in the cases that we’ve come across,they are maimed,traumatised,damaged for life,lost their children,and then they are targeted by yet another abuser and so you have a pattern of serial abuse.