“But aboriginal society was possibly the most misogynistic ever. Evidence is that women were treated abysmally. Something like 50% of all examined female skeletons in archaeology show head and bone fractures. But because of this desire to see utopia in pre-Cook society, this information is suppressed.
Yet today, aboriginal women suffer domestic violence at rates that far outstrip other groups. But because we hide the true nature of their society, we head down the wrong path in trying to fix this problem, when we even bother to try. When we portrait domestic violence, we always see white men doing it when a more accurate picture would be aboriginal men doing what their culture has taught them to do for millennia.”
http://tiny.cc/j7z1001

A report into the DV deaths of four aboriginal women was handed down recently. The four women had been killed in the previous year. They were just the latest with at least 82 NT aboriginal women killed in DV incidents in the last 20 years. "Each death examined in this inquest was preceded by years, decades even, of other acts of harassment, control and violence.”

The report found that up to 80% of NT police time was taken up with DV issues and almost all of that was in the aboriginal community.

The inquiry listed 35 recommendations as to how to approach the problem. None considered facing the cultural inheritance of an inherently misogynist tradition.

Meanwhile a survivor of DV at the hands of her ‘partner’ has said the quite bit out loud… “Annie fears violence is becoming normalised and says the cultural shame of speaking out — or getting the law involved — can make it harder for women like her to be up-front.”

Cultural shame. They shame their culture when they speak out so many don’t, and more are pressured to remain silent.

Aboriginal culture doesn’t value women. Never has. The only way to address the rampant DV in that community is to face those facts head on. But Australian society isn’t prepared to be so ‘racists’ so the disproportionate deaths of aboriginal women will continue.

Why single out only Aboriginal culture?

How many other cultures exist around the globe that
have historically treated women and girls badly for
centuries and the matriarchal systems that are still in
control.

Do all cultures really provide for women, easy access
to education, to employment opportunities?
Do wonen and girls have access to reproductive health and
rights, to
maternal health. How many experience gender-based violence,
child marriages, female-genital mutilation, or gender
equality?

If we're going to talk about cultures and the treatment of
women and girls perhaps we need to broaden the discussion
to include other cultures and not just finger-point at
our Aboriginal communities? Domestic violence is a serious
problem in this country.

Lets look at domestic violence and the treatment of women
in our communities as a whole - not just those in
Aboriginal communities.

Only fair?

Instead of treating aboriginal criminals and bash-artists like everyone else, Albo the Idiot came up with Voice. Treating certain people differently has put the rest of us right off these no-hopers

"Why single out only Aboriginal culture?"

Because the report was about the problem of aboriginal domestic violence in the northern territory.

Because 80% of NT police time is taken up by addressing aboriginal DV.

Because DV deaths among NT aboriginal women occurs at rates far greater than non-aboriginal deaths.

Because aboriginal women at 35 times more likely to be hospitalised due to DV than non-aboriginals,

Because solving the problem of aboriginal DV is more important than trying to hide the misogyny in that culture.

Aboriginal women die in disproportionate numbers because virtue signallers want to pretend the aboriginal culture is blameless.

We can only accurately speak from a point of view based on personal experience.

The first view must be from the premise that the Aboriginal culture is tribal. Until you grasp this fact, not much will makes sense: even then, the Western man struggles to make sense of the tribal chaos displayed before him, because Western individualism shines above all other possibilities and broader understandings as his own cultural God, so he is blinded to tribal simplicities.

Then there is his own view of superiority built upon his concepts and experiences of individualism, and thus is built the concrete platform of bigotry and racism: This then is the sadness and the permanent distancing, that turns the genuine Aboriginal struggle for recognition and equality on its head. The White dominant culture demands a return on investment in the recognisable currency of individual change; but this return is an impossible ask!

Hi mhaze,

You might have mentioned that cave in WA. Yes, there is censorship to support the idyllic hunter gatherer narrative, but how does that relate to the current dv? You have said "They know what to do but they don't do it.". So what is it that might be done?