Courageous Aboriginal women have shared deeply personal, heartbreaking stories. Have those in power heard?

‘Aboriginal women have always done the heavy lifting because our lives depend on it’ … Antoinette Braybrook speaks at a rally in 2023. Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP

As a First Nations woman who has spent the past two decades working at the frontline of Aboriginal women’s and children’s safety, I have seen and heard it all.

Despite dedicating my life to advocating for the rights of Aboriginal women and children, I have been silenced and sidelined. But like all other First Nations women, this has never deterred me.