amazing how regressives always cherry pick stats and 'facts'. Those in defacto relationships, homosexual relationships, Indigeneous, Islanders and Muslims have far higher rates of dv than those. Just visit any women's refuge and the obvious will show forth. The more something as gross as dv is politicised the less the chance of real solutions. Susie proves that as she is only ever interested in her narrative. While dv has always existed it will only increase unless the truth is faced. The social engineers convinced the gullible that 'time out'replacing useful discipline would reduce dv. How idiotic.

G'day there ONTHEBEACH...

I'm afraid the events of today leave me far behind most others in terms of change, change that I never envisaged nor anticipated? Even our language has evolved to a point, I haven't a fundamental clue what the true import of a particular word or phrase actually means?

Former colleagues of my era, some still working, have also fallen far behind many of the younger blokes, blokes they've previously coached and taught, but are now their superiors. My group are often described as 'dinosaurs' and considered completely out of touch with contemporary investigative practices? Well, we'll see? D's of my era have locked up many a violent crook, notwithstanding we're all supposed to be, primordial and antediluvian in our outlook and practices?

I guess in hindsight, by accurately enumerating the accumulation of 'degrees', albeit mine have (only) been conferred upon me, by the Masonic Lodge, I've not done too badly. Given that it's frequently been asserted, that my IQ is rated somewhere around that of plant life, often by those intellectual giants who I've locked up? So I suppose, for a dumb bastard, I've done OK?

Watching the secrets of the brain on SBS, it would appear that we do not really have free will after all.

Hi Wolly,

Indigenous women in remote 'communities' certainly don't:

"In the Northern Territory, Indigenous women make up approximately 73% of all domestic violence victims, and more than 80% of all incidents involve alcohol.

“Alcohol will continue to exacerbate the severity and frequency of violence and child abuse in Indigenous communities,” the NIITF report said."

from this article in The Guardian:

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/30/child-and-domestic-abuse-in-indigenous-communities-chronically-undisclosed

Bring on the Cash Card ASAP !

Joe

Impossible!

Quentin Bryce and Rosie Batty and the feminist elite commentariat would have said so if it was that way.

What about the experts in sexism and misogyny of the Gillard(+treacherous Greens sidekicks) government? Ms Julia's keen sight and highly tuned sensitivity could (and did!) detect misogyny in a glance at a watch by a happily married man with daughters he loved.

How could Julia and her sexism-detecting Ministers miss the obvious? What weren't they told?

Hot damn, if there was a blip in the DV numbers affecting Indigenous or ethnic group they would have been right onto it, wouldn't they?

There has to be whipping boy to be responsible for all of this. OK, so step up those white dudes, preferably old white dudes. It is going to be YOUR fault and you know that already.

[sarcasm alert]

Posted by Loudmouth Joe, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 11:24:04 AM

"Alcohol will continue to exacerbate the severity and frequency of violence and child abuse in Indigenous communities,” the NIITF report said."

So Loudmouth, using your logic, if the consumption of Alcohol decreases, then the incidences of DV should also decrease.