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Report of Victoria's Royal Commission on Family Violence hardly surprises : Comments

By Brendan O'Reilly, published 8/4/2016

When a lefty Labor government commissions a report into a 'women's issue' like domestic violence, we have come to expect a regurgitation of the entrenched views of its feminist wing.

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Now we have the Victorian government throwing $500,000,000 at the problem with a minimal amount aimed at prevention. Smart lad, our Premier not.

David
Posted by VK3AUU, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 9:28:33 PM
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Lego,

Not a fan of multiculturalism myself. Liked assimilation better, when all races were required to learn to speak English. Learn about all races, but fit in, dont come here and set up enclaves that carry on long-standing feuds. Accept our laws, obey our rules, as your country would expect of us if we were there. It was a simpler time. Or did it just appear so? So who's at fault for permitting our culture, new though it was, be so overtaken? Cant blame just those dratted feminists! Look at the law. too many businessmen/legal people in politics.

The Government could do much better in setting the example of what behaviour is required here. However, since we are completely pathetic at holding perpetrators accountable via criminal law (despite what the great untested assumers believe) we can hardly say 'if you come here, dont bash your family or we'll chuck you out!'

Despite all the issues, my point is we cant take our anger out on well-intentioned people, following social norms, who got into relationships hoping for love, family etc, stayed too long, learned about parenting with an abuser / personality disordered person, was harmed etc. How do we get life-experience wisdom into the heads of people?

There are two types of social worker. The first wants you to feel better about having the problem. The second wants to show you how to fix the problem.

My particular beef is with research (generally limited, biased, controlled questioning that frequently misses the real points) and the resultant inability to hear the real stories of real people because they are just anecdotal - therefore politicians and bureaucrats dont have to actually fix the recurrent problem. Yet so many functions include the voices of the downtrodden - like entertainment - but not for actual action and positive change
Posted by Cotter, Thursday, 14 April 2016 9:51:14 AM
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As the Euros are discovering, if the wages in country "A" are one tenth of what they are in a North European country, and you give the inhabitants of country "A" a right to travel to North Europe, they are going to do just that. "Integration" can never be achieved where very large numbers of people from cultures with diametrically opposed value systems to the host population, are simply allowed to flood in. Birds of a feather just keep flocking together, no matter what well intentioned people like yourself would like.

Islam is a violent "religion" which gives holy sanction to wife beating, and creates justifications for rape. In Europe now, numerous Islamic ethnic ghettoes are being set up where the laws and customs of the host country are ignored. Why be a minority in one country when you can be a majority in your own area and have your own laws and customs the pre eminent ones? Domestic violence in European countries will increase because we have imported large numbers of people who think that beating your wife or daughter is morally right. And that women who do not follow the dictates of Islam deserve to be raped, and if they are raped, it is their own fault.

How you equate the entertainment industry with "the downtrodden" is beyond me. People are not born with moral values. What the majority of people regard as correct behaviour is inculcated into them over time from their parents, teachers, religious leaders, and the role model heroes which their culture holds up to them for emulation. Young men are being increasingly exposed to violent role model heroes in the media at a time in their lives, when they are less inclined to accept the values of their parents and community leaders. If the entertainment media continues to tell young men that Real Men are violent men, who use violence as a first resort in solving their personnel problems, then eventually that will become the new cultural norm.

No amount of taxpayer money for social programs combating domestic violence will change that.
Posted by LEGO, Thursday, 14 April 2016 6:29:03 PM
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Too right LEGO as I've always said, take out those who's religion/beliefs allow wife bashing/rape, take away the drug 'F' idiots, the women who get great satisfaction out of tormenting their X partner and the indigenous cases, do we actually have a domestic violence problem.

This is just another avoidable issue that is placing additional burden on our dwindling tax revenues, which simply means less for other important funding necessities.

We are continually pissing money away on avoidable issues like this at an alarming rate and something is going to give.
Posted by rehctub, Saturday, 16 April 2016 7:27:48 AM
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