‘Horrific’ First Nations missing and murdered cases to be focus of Australia-wide inquiry

Dorinda Cox, a Greens senator from WA pictured here in October 2021, moved a motion for the inquiry in November last year but progress stalled before the federal election. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/EPA

A landmark parliamentary inquiry will investigate the “horrific, extensive and unacceptable” rates of missing and murdered Indigenous women and children in Australia.

The WA Greens senator, Dorinda Cox, successfully moved a motion for the inquiry in November, saying the high rates of violence experienced by First Nations women and children were unacceptable, but progress on the inquiry stalled before the federal election.