With domestic violence being the latest topic of discussion, costing us billions of dollars, that's billions we have to borrow, if we don't take a hard stand and identify the causes, and address them, we are simply going to go broke. Maybe not in our time, but most certainly down the track. Is that the Australia we want to leave to our children.

All this money gets continually thorn at the symptoms, yet the best solution is to identify the cause, then treat that.

Political correctness has our leaders and lawmakers hamstrung and as a hard working tax payers, seeing my taxes being CONTINUALLY piss up againstbthe wall, I say its time we had some leaders with real balls that want to have a go, not just sound mean and nasty whikenthey the cameras are on them.

I don't work as hard as I do and pay as much tax as I do to fund preventable societal problems at seem to be reoccurring time and time again.

WTF do you mean by "go broke"?

Australia is a sovereign currency issuing nation. We can't run out of money, as we have unlimited credit.

Why dont you stand for Parliament butch?
Id vote for ya.

Sensationalism, Scare mongering, Fear mongering.

These are just some of the actions that are associated with Domestic violence. So rather than a rational debate, it becomes emotive. Once it becomes emotive, logic and rationalism goes out the window.

It is true that we do need to examine and determine what the triggers are that lead to physical domestic violence that results in injury or in extreme cases death.

Aidan,

Would you explain, please, what this comment of yours actually means?

"Australia is a sovereign currency issuing nation. We can't run out of money, as we have unlimited credit."

Aidan is an agent of misinformation. Our Govt borrows from OS central banks and the RBA does not create debt free money for us. Our Govt debt is now over $700 billion or nearly half our GDP and our total debt is greater than the USA per capita.http://www.australiandebtclock.com.au/

No one mentions the unfunded liabilities such as pensions and Govt super. That is the real can of worms.