Hi Rehctub,

I'm inclined to agree with you, not just in connection with domestic violence but all crimes of violence, as well as serious crimes of theft.

As it happens, South Australia is in need of projects which might employ as many people as possible. As well, some regions desperately need enterprises, not least Oodnadatta. With plenty of room out there, not only could a prison be spread out, with low-cost corrugated-iron cells separated for privacy, and local cooks could prepare mince meals daily with little trouble. Mince and mashed potatoes - mmmm, two of the essential food groups. Day after day.

For more violent prisoners, an annexe could be built, say, thirty kilometres away. Plenty of room out towards Lake Eyre.

Or the whole prison could be built out there, perhaps even as a semi-open prison (with endless sight-seeing possibilities for the more adventurous), where prisoners could mix freely, and beat the daylights out of each other to their hearts' content.

SA could take in the more violent prisoners from other States, on a lucrative contract basis, and boost its employment rate considerably. Win-win !

Joe

Great to see the focus moving to the real solution to the domestic violence problem along with other violence. Some opponents of war against violent criminals plead that they will learn criminal techniques when inside and will be angry and embittered when they emerge. If that's the case they have emerged too soon. These days there are lockable GPS trackers and if after emerging they go within 30 miles of a former victim it's straight back to prison for another decade or two. Hopefully at the Royal Commission someone will raise the question of going after the violent criminals themselves.

People understand there is no problem with husband gently hitting wife is she disobay him in major dicisions to do with children or homelife or other major problems in the house. Hitting must only be gentle with hand only and no wepons or anything else. Husband must be kind always to wife otherwise she leave him. But if wife is bad he must teach her lessons by gentle hitting only. Husband is ruler of house and wife and children.

Misanthrope,

Are you having us on ? That's the most appallingly ignorant contribution I've seen so far. My god, are you eight years old ?

You really need to try to get into the 21st century: husband and wife are equals in the home. Neither should hit the other.

In fact, since men are usually physically stronger than women, it is much more reprehensible (look it up) for a man to be such a gutless and weak creature as to feel the need to hit a woman.

But in backward societies, it seems that men can hit women - why ? Because they can. They're stronger. That's the logic of the animal world, not that of a modern human society.

Joe

Loudmouth's rebuttal of misanthrope refers to something I have come across in Western and Moslem apologetics for Islam which replaces principle and justice with *degree* by quoting hopefully from Islamic texts that Islam doesn't advocate harsh cruelty to wives but gentle chastisement to emphasise to women that under Islam they are nothing, scarcely a higher form of life than infidel dogs like us.

See for example http://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/7483/does-the-quran-allow-husbands-punish-their-wives

You don't understand my way of living with my family loudmouth. Our sacred book teach us to obay our lord and our teachers. And wife who does not follow husbands ruling must be punished gently with hands only. What is your problem with that loudmouth? Woman must be looked after carefully by the husband in all ways.Children must be looked after by the father in all ways, what is wrong with that I ask you that? The wife and the children must obay the father all the time.It is the father who guides his whole family to follow the proper rules of living carefully. If mistake is made, wife must be punished gently with hand also. If child is wrong must be punished carfully to! No problem with this loudmouth?