This is a very positive sign.

Prior to last Christmas Alice Springs Aboriginal men lead a march calling to end domestic violence in the Northern Territory, declaring..

"Not a women's issue - Its' our issue."

Crowds of indigenous men and boys marched from the Courthouse to the Alice Springs town council lawn, shouting:

"End the violence!" "Stop the violence!"

while hundreds of women lined the footpath, cheering them on.

An Anmatyere man fought back tears as he described his late mother's struggle with domestic violence ... Escorted into the ICU ... I couldn't recognize her ... episodes repeated over a long period of time."

Aboriginal community police officers spoke of the continuing violence/killing that needs to stop.

" ... hurting our sisters, our nannas, our aunties ...

Foxy,

The violence/killing of aboriginal women in the Northern Territory is recognized by the indigenous people themselves.

To their great benefit, the men are acknowledging it, confronting it, and doing something about it.

This is an enormous credit to them.

Please don't try to discredit/diminish this.

Only by recognizing problems, and admitting them, can solutions be found.

Indy,

Who was it Judge Judy? All part of your anti-educated mantra, did you actually go to school. If you are so proud of your own heritage, why are you ashamed to say where you came from. I was born in Australia mate, and proud of it, what about you?

Foxy,

Indigenous people of the Northern Territory recognize there is a serious problem of violence/killing of their women.

They are recognizing it, admitting it, and seek to do something about it.

Don't belittle them by denying the magnitude of the problem.

We should admire them, enormously, for doing so. And support them.

Also, Foxy ... enough with the cliches and quotes please! Quotes are only used when specifically relevant to a topic.

Foxy,

Indigenous people of the Northern Territory recognize there is a serious problem of the violence/killing of their women.

They are recognizing it, admitting it, and seeking to do something about it.

Please don't belittle them by denying the magnitude of their problem

We should admire them, enormously, for doing so. And support them.

Also, Foxy, enough with the cliches and quotes please. Quotes are only used when specifically relevant to the topic

Hi WM,

No one is belittling the seriousness of the domestic violence situation within the Aboriginal community of the NT. What is in question, is those who through prejudice make the claim that it is a "black cultural problem" only. The truth is DV is also caused by other socio-economic factors, not the least, poor education, poverty, alcoholism, housing over crowding, etc etc they all contribute to the problem.

Domestics violence is on the increase generally within the Australia community. Education would seem to be the major weapon against such behavior, but it needs to start at a very early age. One thing that is of concern, is the media presentation of violence as a first resort when dealing with problems, its true in so called action movies and in violent games etc. How we correct learned experience is difficult.