One of the Northern Territory's most senior judicial officers has told a legal networking event there is a "significant cultural component" to domestic violence against Aboriginal women and "difficulty" in talking about it, for fear of "inaccurately" being "labelled as a racist".
Justice Judith Kelly was invited to speak at a Women Lawyer's Association function on August 26, when she gave a talk about domestic violence, specifically in Aboriginal communities, drawing on her experience as a judge responsible for sentencing perpetrators.
