My girlfriend and I had an argument. I went to the liquor store and she came behind in a Toyota, a Hilux. I bought two flagons and went back to the reserve. A big mob of blokes were bludging off her. I went and bust the flagons and went home. She was jealousing me and started abusing me saying her brothers could belt me and all that. I grabbed a broken flagon and stabbed myself. I didn't want to kill myself. I stabbed it and threw it away. When I got up to try and hit her I saw my gut sticking out.

My husband is always drinking — he gets drunk, comes home, then there's an argument and he start to hit me. He talks rubbish. He hits me with a broomstick, with a cup — anything he can pick up. Last time he bashed me up and knocked my teeth out. He hit my little girl too — she help herself, open door and run to uncle place. He promise to shoot me with gun — me and the children are frightened of him. He told me ‘you go to your father and mother — get out of my house’.