Respected anti-domestic violence campaigner remembered at vigil in Alice Springs

An emotional vigil has been held for R Rubuntja, the 46-year-old anti-domestic violence advocate who was allegedly murdered in an alleged domestic violence incident in Alice Springs in January this year.

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains an image of a person who has died.

In a speech just metres away from where Ms Rubuntja lost her life outside the Alice Springs Hospital, Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group (TWFSG) co-ordinator Shirleen Campbell urged the hundreds of attendees to remember her friend as a woman who made a difference, not just as a statistic.

“We are not just numbers, we are not invisible women,” she said.

“Our sister, another one lost to us, is not…