Towards healing: recognizing the trauma surrounding Aboriginal family violence
2013
Aboriginal communities in Australia experience violence – sexual assault, family
violence and child abuse – at rates far in excess of the wider community (AIHW
[Australian Institute of Health and Welfare], Al-Yaman, Van Doeland and
Wallis, 2006). This violence is primarily perpetrated on Aboriginal Australians
by other Aboriginal people (Fitzgerald and Weatherburn, 2002). It is argued in
this chapter that in order to understand this violence and abuse and to develop
appropriate responses, it is imperative to locate the current violence within the
context of the historical and traumatic experiences endured by Aboriginal people
as a result of unjust and oppressive state policies and practices. This will be illustrated using the example of child welfare policies and practices in the Australian
state of New South Wales (NSW), examining both their implementation over
time and their traumatic legacies from colonization to the present day.
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