18.7.19 The Queensland Aboriginal Co-ordinating Council, in its submission to the Commission, also stresses the link between overcrowding, domestic violence and inadequate emergency accommodation. Womens' Shelters do not exist on most of the communities. Women and their babies sleep in watch-houses regularly to escape further abuse. Women are caught in a bind because they love their men and they' II usually return. If they leave the community, they then are isolated from family and kin support networks and become lonely.
Life is also difficult financially in the city for single mothers.
In a sense, women are 'imprisoned' in their own communities in their own homes.