The more things change ...

This sad end to a precious life, while shocking in the extreme, is one many Indigenous people are all too familiar with. There wouldn’t be a single township or suburb with a large Indigenous population anywhere in the country that could not recount a similar ghastly affair.

The recalled events are mere reflections of the Tiwi Island tragedy: jealous partner with a history of violence and police intervention finally commits the ultimate crime that not only ends a life of a mother, sister, aunt or granny, but also has long-lasting emotional consequences for immediate family and community members.

The second infamous public outing goes to the nation’s highest Muslim cleric. The story in question, which gained international media coverage, overheated radio station switchboards and increased their monthly ratings, was a story by The Australian on Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali.

The high profile cleric was identified by the Murdoch-owned paper for a sermon last month in which he likened immodestly dressed women to “meat” that attracted voracious predators.

Speaking to the AAP on October 26, federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward said Australia's top Muslim cleric Sheik Hilali should be sacked and deported for comments which essentially excused young Muslim men who committed rape.

Ms Goward said the sheik had a history of making such comments and many would feel Australia's tolerance had been abused.

"It is incitement to a crime; young Muslim men who now rape women can cite this in court, can quote this man ... their leader in court," she told the Nine Network. "It's time we stopped just saying he should apologise. It is time the Islamic community did more than say they were horrified. I think it is time he left."

Sheik Hilali's comments were delivered in a Ramadan sermon to 500 worshippers in Sydney, a News Ltd newspaper reported.

"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat," he said in the sermon.

"The uncovered meat is the problem.”

"If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab (Islamic headdress), no problem would have occurred."

Ms Goward said, “This was an ugly comparison and that was vile enough.”