Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women tell inquiry police have failed them

Dorinda Cox says an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women has heard from families treated as perpetrators when they were victims. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

First Nations families who have lost loved ones have described a “systemic failure of police” to investigate properly, an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and children has heard.

The landmark parliamentary inquiry has heard from families of those who have been killed or who have disappeared this week.