An inquest has been told of repeated instances of domestic violence preceding a woman's death.
Nine months before she was fatally stabbed, Ms Yunupingu was removed from a government-funded program designed to protect her from her increasingly violent husband.
The NT Department of Families, Housing and Communities referred her to the Family Safety Framework in October 2016, after a slew of interactions with police and multiple breaches of domestic violence orders. Ms Yunupingu was referred to the program via an alert that was passed on to NT police which read: "This person is currently subject to an FSF and there is a high risk of serious harm or death as a result of domestic violence ... appropriate action must be taken and priority given".
"Why did this beautiful and gentle woman suffer so much violence for over a decade leading up to her passing away," she said.A chilling triple-zero call from a year before her death was also played to the court, in which police acknowledged the call-taker was "unnecessarily abrupt". The inquest is one of four deaths of Aboriginal women being investigated by NT Coroner Elisabeth Armitage in one of Australia's biggest inquests into domestic violence.
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