Step one Paul is to remove the too easily wasted cash.

Once that is done, then we will re evaluate. But of cause that's going to take balls the likes of what Tony Abbott has, and I'm afraid the limp dick we have now does not posses such a pair.

Now of cause we can crap on forever about this rubbish, but the fact is cash, means grog, means fights. End of story.

Even Warren Mundean says as much, surely that must speak volumes.

Paul1405, "I have a deal to do with the rural Maori community in northern New Zealand. .. But one thing that is not evident to any great degree is domestic violence, and according to my partner it never has been, its simply not tolerated by the community"

Is that so? Put up the evidence, the government numbers then.

Here is the reality, from no other than Temuera Morrison ("Once were Warriors"),

<Once Were Warriors star Temuera Morrison fronts Women’s Refuge campaign to highlight family violence

Morrison said urgent action was needed.
“Here we are now in the year 2016, 20 years since Once Were Warriors but the problem’s got worse, we speak of whanau, we speak of aroha, we say all these words but I think we’re just saying these words.
“We need our people, we need our communities to give a little bit more to help our women.”>
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/once-were-warriors-star-temuera-morrison-fronts-womens-refuge-campaign-to-highlight-family-violence/news-story/f99f6ea3b551cbc71686eb078c54dd2c

Not that the women, Maori and others, are not complicit and handy in dishing it out as well.

But just from the gender-skewed research (there has got to be another term for the guvvy grant driven 'research' and its predictable findings), it has been a common finding that intimate partner violence (IPV) a major public health threat for Maori women and a significant social issue and due to its prevalence.

While I would agree that part of the solution to reducing intimate partner violence is non-tolerance in the community, it is an over-simplification to suggest it is the whole solution.

Now, going back to the OP and my reply to it, why have the Greens and Labor 'social warriors' been seduced by gay marriage for eons and have turned their backs on obvious, serious, social problems as Mark Latham said?

Thomas O'Reilly, thanks for the down to earth intuitive posts. I watched the Four Corners program about the positive initiatives in Bourke, including the Justice Reinvestment Program. The knockers are at the ready to attack Aboriginal people for the failings, yet offer no positive alternatives. I suspect they are the same people who were once happy to see Aboriginal people marginalized on the fringe of mainstream society.
Those of the hard right like Beach, Butch and others with their knocker attitudes take every opportunity to attack progressives through the socially disadvantaged, members of society they have no regard for anyway! Fellas your out of date thinking is now irrelevant to the debate.
Obviously in the Northern Territory, and in other places, much needs to be done before we turn the corner and there is some positive future for many of our Indigenous. People speak of 200 years of failures, although there have been successes in that time. Those failures in themselves should not discourage Australia from developing a strong forward movement to facilitate positive outcomes for some of our must socially disadvantaged.

Beach 'Once Were Warriors' great movie and Temuera Morrison is a fine actor. Have you ever watched it?

You ask for facts, well the population of Northland NZ is around 150,000 with the largest centre being Whangarei about 75,000. This compares with the population of the NT at 240,000, Darwin about 120,000. The police in Northland attend on average 10 DV calls a day. The vast majority are in and around the major centres of population. About 3,500 DV cases a year in Northland, with few in rural communities (which I said) compared to the NT with around 25,000 per year, many in rural communities.
Auckland is a different story, South Auckland in particular (The setting for Once Were Warriors) its dysfunctional community would compare with Mt Druitt in Sydney.
When we stay with Aunty in Manurewa South Auckland, she loves to drive us around to point out the 18 grog outlets, but only one church in the area, in one square mile. As Aunty likes to tell us every time we visit, "No wonder our people drink so much!" Unbelievably there are 18 grog outlets, from the New World Liquor Store (Coles) to the local RSA (RSL) and lots in between.

Mark Latham, an inept former politician who lost an unloseable election for the Labor Party in 2004, which woke up that he was nothing but a failure, booted him out, now he has an ax to grind. When did this joker develop a social conscience, it was never evident when he was in parliament. Now he makes a living as a political hack, and sometime commentator for the hard right media. What a Wally!
Beach, Latham is your kind of guy! A great match for Alan Jones, does Jones support gay marriage? Does Latham?

Paul1405,

As you would be aware, the whole focus and narrative of DV discounts the possibility (reality) of higher incidences for indigenous and some other groups. As well, it insists on the homogeneity of offenders, with women as always the victims. Both are patently absurd.

That suits the already-entitled, educated, middle-class, white elite women who continue to have a throttle-hold on feminism and direct the smug, elitist new left that Latham despises.