@Suseonline, "I fail to see why we can't ... get on with trying to stop ALL domestic violence". I like the word "ALL" in that statement.

Suseonline as a test of you're sincerity/integrity on this issue tell us all why there is only ever campaigns and taxpayer money thrown at reducing domestic violence against one cohort of victims perpetrated by one of a number of cohorts of perpetrators?

@Killarney

"This is the reason why the feminist model remains the cultural benchmark for dealing with domestic violence - the main reason being that DV encompasses all that is fundamentally wrong with the current gender power structure."

Killarney, so courts should deal with all "alleged" male perpetrators as though they are all tarred with the one male demonizing brush mainly for the purpose of unjustly interfering with the bonding fathers have with their children? That's what this issue is really all about...the easy separation of a father from his children...and for mothers to gain an unjustified advantage in child custody/access cases.

Where are the statistics that show the number of fathers served avo's/dvo's unsupported by substantiated allegations(in other words unproven) and including their chidren as needing protection?

"BILL SHORTEN: One in three women over the age of 15 will face physical violence, 17 in every hundred Australian women will face violence from a current or previous partner, yet only 20 per cent of all those women who face family violence from a partner will actually report it to the police."

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2015/s4190905.htm

Bill ever the man for gender politics.

The reason why women don't report it to the police is because if you look behind the statics silly Billy mentions you will see in the survey results it is largely very petty non injurious behavior like one incident of a push or shove in the previous 12 months that is captured. Bill and the DV industry mob would like the public to believe it was the other way around where the 1 in 3 implied that it gave insight into the number of women who are being bashed by their husbands with a baseball bat borrowed from the next door neighbor.

<The agenda of this faux 'awareness raising' is to DISCREDIT FEMINISM.
Posted by Killarney, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 6:35:17 AM

Christine Stobla; Lying in a Room of ones own. How women's studies miseducate.
Christina Hoff Sommers; Who Stole Feminism?
Wendy McElroy; Independant womens forum.
Daphne Patai; Heterophobia
Eeva Sodhi; Nojustice.info

Manufacturing Research ; http://web.archive.org/web/20050308115735/http://www.nojustice.info/Research/ManufacturingResearch.htm

Katie Rhopie; The Morning After.
Kathy Young
Susanne Steinmentz

Killarney all the authors above are female in case you haven't noticed. I could add a few more.

Posted by Roscop, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 2:46:32 PM

It would be political suicide for Bill Shorten or any politician, not to regurgitate the 'MESSAGE"!

@killarney, what feminism has done for over the past 40 years is perpetuate a fraudulent message that all abuse is the product of male power over women- a paradigm which systemically enables rapists, batterers, pedophiles and child abusers on the basis of gender and which stigmatises male victims of both abuse and child abuse, as well as female victims of female abusers.

After all under the feminist model, if a little boy is abused by a grown women, then he is arbirarily regarded as being at fault by that dogma - after all the child is the only one in that situation with any form of male power.

Stop pretending that your position is even remotely concerned with ending all abuse when the very narrative it is based in, quite literally stigmatises ME PERSONALLY as a survivor of both child abuse and domestic violence at the hands of female abusers, as nothing but an urban myth, if not a pathological liar, who "had it coming to me" and as effeminate scum - the gendered equivalent of a cheap, filthy, worthless slut.