NT marches for International Women’s Day

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Around the world and across Australia, thousands of women have taken to the streets to celebrate International Women’s Day. Here in the NT, hundreds turned up to the party, but the domestic violence epidemic cast a dark shadow on festivities.

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00:00A sea of purple, as Territorians turn out in droves to make the call.

00:14Celebrating every win, together.

00:16Happy when I see my science class, it's mostly women.

00:20Having all the freedom to decide for yourself.

00:24People from all backgrounds sweating in solidarity.

00:26I come from an island community, where it was just the strength of the women that built

00:32not only the community, but the family as well, to keep them together.

00:36Men too, joining the march.

00:38It's definitely important for them to show up for these sort of things, to show that

00:40we're all united for women's rights.

00:44International Women's Day is a day for women's voices to be uplifted, but here in the face

00:48of the NT's domestic violence epidemic, many of these women feel their voices go unheard.

00:55Catherine marked the day with a more solemn march.

00:58Stop the violence!

01:00In the second half of last year alone, four women were killed by men known to them in

01:04the Catherine region.

01:06And the Territory has the highest rates of domestic violence in the country.

01:11Our forefathers never beat our foremothers, and now here we are today, because of so many

01:17other issues that are involved in becoming this way.

01:22They change their attitude, their behaviour.

01:26These are the root problems that we have to solve.

01:31Feelings echoed in Darwin.

01:33The leading cause of death and disability for women aged 18 to 44 is domestic violence.

01:38We just need more resources basically, there's such a huge need, and the band-aid approach

01:43doesn't work.

01:45Celebrating wins in womanhood, in the face of harsh realities.

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