‘Disappearing’ is a political act, because it does not only involve individual perpetrators of violence, but the state & its agencies (like police) who refuse to properly investigate, report on or care for these women & their communities. Disappearances are a pattern in the ongoing settler colonial project that actively targets Black women.

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The ongoing solidarity between police & individual white male perpetrators creates a culture of impunity. This means that people can perpetrate violence against Indigenous women & know they will not be held to account by police or courts. This culture of impunity enables violence & ‘disappearance’. It is the fundamental reason that Indigenous people experience high rates of all forms of violence.

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First Nations women & gender diverse people have been subject to gendered forms of racial violence since first invasion. Mass sexual violence by white men towards First Nations women has been a core part of colonisation. Police have been complicit in this widespread violence both as direct perpetrators of violence against Indigenous women & by refusing to investigate the violence of other settlers.

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The threshold for the state naming these women [and gender diverse people] as murdered & holding individual perpetrators to account for their deaths is almost impossibly high in so-called Australia. We choose to name all these women as murdered because they are violently disappeared by individual perpetrators who are enabled by colonial agencies (like police, courts, & media).

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Because Indigenous women [and gender diverse people] are not found or properly looked for, they are made missing rather than murdered.

This means so there is never accountability for violence against them. In fact, what is missing are the white male perpetrators of this violence, whither they be strangers on the street or agents of the state. The invisibility of these perpetrators gives them innocence. By erasing perpetrators from this issue, inquiries like this can present the state as the potential solution to this problem, rather than its central cause.

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Missing & murdered Indigenous women & gender diverse people are never simply 'missing'. They do not 'just vanish' from their homes, families & Country. In fact, they are violently disappeared by individuals & the state, who refuses to investigate violence against them.

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