{"id":943644,"date":"2026-05-07T11:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943644\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:09:19","slug":"kumanjayi-little-baby-vigils-held-across-australia-for-girl-allegedly-murdered-in-outback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943644\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumanjayi Little Baby: Vigils held across Australia for girl allegedly murdered in Outback"},"content":{"rendered":"

A plea for Kumanjayi Little Baby’s death not to be politicisedpublished at 11:44 BST<\/p>\n

11:44 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Katy Watson<\/strong>
Australia correspondent reporting from Alice Springs<\/p>\n

Everyone I\u2019ve spoken to here in Alice Springs has warned that the death of a Kumanjayi Little Baby shouldn\u2019t be politicised – a plea her own mother made tonight.<\/p>\n

“I ask that her short life not be used by politicians for reasons that do not honour and respect her,” a speech read on her behalf said.<\/p>\n

How to address the gaping inequalities here in Australia, with Aboriginal communities facing the worst of the poverty, is a question that so many political leaders have long tried – and failed – to address. And in the days after Kumanjayi Little Baby went missing, blame was promptly laid, on authorities, social workers and even the family themselves.<\/p>\n

But the family has said this is a time to mourn a very loved little girl – working out how to make sure this never happens again will come, but later.<\/p>\n

Communities feel failed, but that\u2019s nothing new – and few here really think anything will change.<\/p>\n

Aboriginal leaders in Alice say the only solution is to listen to the communities and let them lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plea for Kumanjayi Little Baby’s death not to be politicisedpublished at 11:44 BST 11:44 BST Katy WatsonAustralia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-943644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116532988016727028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}