‘This is our horror’: the grim stories driving the Northern Territory’s reckoning with domestic violence

Since 2000, 81 women in the NT have died as a result of domestic violence, 93% of them Aboriginal – a landmark inquiry is looking at what went wrong

Kumanjayi Haywood died with horrific burns to 90% of her body after her former partner doused the house in petrol and set it on fire.

Hours before, she had sent a text to a loved one: “[He’s] going to kill me tonight, love you so much … always and forever in my [heart emoji].”

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