Women take up fight on Cape York violence

A group of women fed up with violence in their remote community say they're scared for their lives and the future of the town's children.

Members of the new group are meeting with a government delegation in Aurukun on Thursday to discuss recent social unrest in the Cape York indigenous community.

"They need to stop this behaviour so our children grow up not thinking this is the norm," grandmother Phyllis Yunkaporta, who started the group two weeks ago, told AAP.

"What can (the delegation) put in place?

"What is the process (going) forward?"

The meetings, involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Minister Curtis Pitt and Police Minister Bill Byrne, come after a man was run over by a car and killed amid town-wide violence in November.

Ms Yunkaporta says outbreaks of violence have persisted since the death and people walk the town brandishing knives and axes.

"(The) elders, they went out bush and sat there for a long time (during violence)," she said.

"We fear for our lives."

Ms Yunkaporta says some community members feel the town's leadership has not done enough to put an end to the violence.

She started a petition to remove the mayor and deputy mayor.

"I'm not a peacemaker ... I'm not a mediator, I just focus on local government," Mayor Dereck Walpo told AAP.

"The elders in the community should be standing up to this, not shifting the blame."

Mr Walpo believes CCTV cameras funded by all three levels of government will go a long to way to securing safety.

He also said a PCYC, due to be up and running in the first half of the year, would be a positive influence.

Ms Yunkaporta wants all five clans in the community to come together to discuss the underlying problems behind the unrest.

She said the police also need to be part of the conversation because some locals felt unsafe around them.

Extra police have been flown to the community on several occasions over the past year while some school teachers left amid the November violence.