For Ursula Wilson, the revelation that more than 300 Indigenous women have either been murdered or have gone missing since 2000 is a heartbreaking reminder of her own loss.
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The Nyamal elder from Western Australia's Pilbara region has been left in the dark about what happened to her two cultural relatives who have been missing for decades.
"It's very, very sad to hear because I know of two family members that's gone — one from Port Hedland and the other one is from the desert, near Newman," she said.
"We haven't seen them for a very long time.
"We don't know what happened to them."
Ms Wilson grew up closely with one of the women in communities around Port Hedland.
Her experience is far from unique.
Shocking global ranking
This week a Four Corners investigation revealed that at least 315 Indigenous women have gone missing, been murdered or died in suspicious circumstances since 2000.
It found Indigenous women were being murdered at up to 12 times the national average.
In some regions their deaths rank among the highest homicide rates in the world.
Ms Wilson's cultural relative was aged in her 30s and had been living in Perth when she disappeared with her newborn baby more than three decades ago.
"I think of her family, they would be feeling the same too — heartbroken," Ms Wilson said.
"She left behind kids, young adult kids today, still looking for mum."
As Australia wakes up to the extent of the crisis, Indigenous women in the Pilbara are renewing calls for action.
Calls for royal commission
A Nyamal elder based in Port Hedland said although there was already a national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women, she wanted to see the highest form of public inquiry into the issue.
Linda Doogiebee called for a royal commission in the wake of the "alarming" findings.
"There needs to be something much stronger to be able to make sure that the responses are appropriate for the families to believe that Australia is listening and is wanting to help us," she said.
Ms Doogiebee, the co-chair of the Pilbara Aboriginal Voice, said a royal commission could help to explain why the rates of First Nations women disappearing and being killed were so high.
"On a national level it actually really needs to be addressed because we want to stop this epidemic, or the word genocide is much stronger," she said.
"Women are very vulnerable, particularly our Aboriginal women.
"This needs to be a national call to implement those kinds of services to support our women of colour."
Push for day of mourning
Ms Doogiebee also wanted to see a national day of grieving for Australia to pay respects to the Indigenous women lost and their families.
"I believe that we should do that because I can't imagine [the pain of] the families that have lost loved ones, in particular children, who I really cry for because they've lost their mum, or big sister or grandmother," she said.
She said this shared day would help provide closure to the families.
Ms Wilson agreed more needed to be done.
"People should be caring for each other, check up on each other, families," she said.
"With the police, do more in searching for these people because they are somebody's mum, somebody's sister.
"I wish we could find some answers — that's all we need.
"That's all the family would like too."
