Media viewers are often seeing federal government political news rather than state government news stories. Federal governments deal with overseas affairs. Media constantly talking about stuff that has little to do with people's lives, The media are no more than a redirection, distraction from our own personal lives.
I would say Australian's enjoyable lives are going backwards. Teenagers are held in school longer than previous generations were held in school. Education is a concern yet governments reply is to throw more money at the problem as if a lack of education was the problem.
Politicians and media are concerned with overseas events, populations are redirected away from their own concerns. How well does the tactic work? An answer could be that forum readings are concerned with politicians behaviours and not what politicians are supposed to do. Yet federal politicians "prime ministers are often seen travelling overseas". The media focuses on the wrong group of politicians. A real looking after a population media should focus on state politicians. Please no more nightly repeating corruption news story scandals to anecdotally prove state governments are real, elected to govern people to control money decision makers.

Not sure about the res if you, but I'm sick and tired of my taxes being used to fund this sought of self induced problem. I'm not a violent person, so why should I be funding this.

If a person hooks up with a nutter, or even worse has kids to them, then more fool them. Drugs are also a huge contributor to the problem.

If the authorities stopped their softly softly approach to dealing with thugs then chances are this would go a long way towards addressing the problem. Of case the other contributor I suspect is multiculturalism but if we dare say this we are tagged as being racist.

Hi there REHCTUB...

BUTCH your last paragraph is pretty right. Until the judiciary start to impose much tougher penalties, it's the old revolving door story ? That is until the violence becomes so severe, the injuries so significant, the presiding member has no other option, but to impose a gaol sentence.

Until the whole thing happens again, and the circumstances remain the same, only the names are different. No BUTCH, the problem is not one for police, it's the judiciary who's at fault, and until they collectively wake up to themselves, and stop this softly softly approach with repeat DV offenders, nothing will ever change ?

Hi, o sung wu,

I understand where you and butch are coming from with jail and sentencing etc. Something we all have to cope with is the cost, and butch says "sick and tired of my taxes being used to fund this sought of self induced problem." I would ask, the massive number of children subjected to DV, did they self induce it, no. The prison costs in NSW now stand at $300/day for adults, and a staggering $600/day for juveniles. As the numbers incarcerated increase so does the cost. We can't have it both ways, if we are going to lock more people up for longer periods taxpayers will have to meet that additional cost.

G'day there PAUL1405...

Of course that's the downside regrettably ? Punishment cost's us all money in one way or the other. I'm not really sure what other measures we can take ? We as a society MUST protect victims of DV, particularly women and children. A really complex issue for the whole community ? Apparently it's worsening as the availability of alcohol and drugs become easier to obtain. I don't know Paul I really don't ?

It would go completely against my grain to strike a female, whatever she did. I've been assaulted on numerous occasions at work, and believe me, once they deploy those sharp talons some of them have, they can really rip your face to pieces ! They use everything, when they completely 'lose it', even the smallest of them !!

I don't see how much can be achieved where the focus is always on gender. That is ideologically-driven, aimed at shoring up guvvy grants, careers and bureaucratic pyramids, career politicians too. It results in poor science, problems in coordinating effort and in effectively and efficiently applying taxpayers money.

There is a need to examine violence generally and by independent, national research.

There are fundamentals that are being missed. There must be, because the problem is not responding as well or as quickly to the millions of taxpayers $$ that have been tipped into it annually and over many years.

It has been noted for instance, that as the number of women who abuse alcohol and other drugs has increased, so too have the reports of females committing serious crimes, including violence. However it would be to fall into researcher error again (a common fault of feminist research) to blame drugs without that national research into violence and its causes.