our mission

Despite making up only 2-3% of Australia's population, Aboriginal women account for 20% of all currently missing women in this country. We are being disappeared at catastrophically disproportionate rates — and most Australians have no idea this is happening

More than half of all missing children reports in Australia are First Nations children. Our kids are vanishing from schools, from care homes, from communities — at rates that would spark national outrage if they were non-Indigenous children.

In the NPY tri-state region alone — spanning Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory — 248 First Nations children remain missing. When children cross state borders, cases get closed with assumptions they're "with family." Many are never found.

In Victoria, 71% of missing people have 'unknown Indigenous status' recorded in police databases. We don't just disappear from our communities — we disappear from the data itself. The system erases us twice: once when we go missing, again when they fail to even record who we are.

When First Nations people are reported missing, police responses can take 6+ hours in remote communities — if they come at all. Reports are dismissed with racist assumptions about "going walkabout." By the time searches begin, critical evidence is lost and trails go cold.

Until 2021, only 4 Australian jurisdictions even bothered to collect data on whether missing persons were First Nations. For decades, this country didn't count how many of us were disappearing. You can't solve a crisis you refuse to measure.