Warning: This story contains the name and images of an Indigenous person who has died.

The "entirely preventable" death of 21-year-old Jayda Lou-Eve Allen Bonner, who was allegedly murdered by a man she lived with, requires a "thorough investigation by the Coroner", leading Victorian Aboriginal organisations say, as they call on all political parties to "stop treating Aboriginal people as a political football".

Jayda, a Yagera woman, was found dead in a fifth-floor apartment in a complex on Cardigan Street in the inner-north suburb of Carlton at about 1.45am on Saturday after emergency services were called.

Victoria Police allege Liban Ali, 31, who turned himself in on Tuesday morning, knew Jayda. It is understood the pair had lived together for two years.

On Wednesday afternoon, homicide detectives announced they had charged Mr Ali with murder. He has been remanded in custody.

In a statement led by Djirra and its CEO Antoinette Braybrook, with the full support and endorsement of Jayda's family, and signed by VACCHO acting CEO Jim O'Shea, VAHS interim CEO Jill Gallagher, VALS CEO Nerita Waight, Dardi Munwurro acting CEO Sarah Thorpe, the Aboriginal Justice Caucus, Marcia Langton, and more than 25 Victorian organisations and allies, they lament that Jayda was the 55th woman and seventh Aboriginal woman allegedly killed in Australia in 2026.

"Victoria's crisis of gendered violence is a catastrophe for Aboriginal women and girls, who are 25 times more likely to die from violence than any other woman," the statement read.

"Jayda's life mattered. The lives of all Aboriginal women affected by violence matter.

"Jayda's family and our wider community is grieving. Sympathy and support are being extended to her family and friends in the usual way that we support each other in times of loss."

There has been an outpouring of grief following the 21-year-old's death. A smoking ceremony is planned at the Lygon Street housing towers over the weekend, followed by a march to state Parliament demanding an end to violence against women.

Following the 31-year-old man's arrest on Tuesday, Jayda's aunt, Kelly Carter-Bell, told Nine News: "I want people to understand the person Jayda was and the beautiful light she was."

"She's had a really difficult, hard life. But was so, so, so loved."

The organisations said the alleged circumstances of Jayda's death can't pass "without accountability", arguing her death was "entirely preventable, not inevitable".

They alleged the death, which is now a matter for the courts, also highlighted "widespread systems failure, especially of the management of [alleged] high-risk family violence offenders," they say, as well as the "management of offenders leaving prison and how we support Aboriginal women and their families to be heard and believed".

"We are furious that despite years of cultural safety training and daily work alongside Victoria Police, Corrections, Courts and the Department of Justice and Community Safety...Djirra and other specialist Aboriginal family violence, justice and health services remained invisible to the system," they said.

"All the red flags were there, yet we were not called to help."

The organisations said the system required a "thorough investigation by the Coroner, with full disclosure of policies, processes, statements and other critical decision-making documents".

Organisations had shared their "truths" about institutional racism, service gaps and funding shortfalls affecting the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people with the Yoorrook Justice Commission, the statement reads, which turned the evidence into recommendations.

With the state election approaching next month, they called for a "multi-party commitment" to implement all of those recommendations

"Especially urgent action to keep Aboriginal women safe," they said.

"Politicians must rise above party politics to prevent Aboriginal women losing their lives. We call on all political parties to stop treating Aboriginal people as a political football and to take urgent action to prevent another tragic loss, like Jayda."

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