Dear mhaze,

You utter buffoon. Your own bloody article totally makes my point.

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“Women in regional, rural and remote areas are more likely than women in urban areas to experience domestic and family violence.

Women living in regional, rural and remote areas who experience domestic and family violence face specific issues related to their geographical location and the cultural and social characteristics of living in small communities.

There is a common view in rural communities that “family problems” such as domestic and family violence are not talked about, which serves to silence women’s experience of domestic and family violence and deter them from disclosing violence and abuse.

Fear of stigma, shame, community gossip, and a lack of perpetrator accountability deter women from seeking help.

A lack of privacy due to the high likelihood that police, health professionals and domestic and family violence workers know both the victim and perpetrator can inhibit women’s willingness to use local services.

Women who do seek help find difficulty in accessing services due to geographical isolation, lack of transportation options and not having access to their own income.”

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A whole bloody raft of reasons why there is dramatic under reporting of domestic violence in rural areas.

How is this pearler:

“However, in the NSW data cited above, the top 10 localities for domestic and family violence in NSW included some predominately white, agricultural areas”.

Further the most often quoted study in the paper was “Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre. (2015) Bendigo” Loddon has an indigenous population of just 1.6% and Campaspe of 3%.

You have simpered in with your usual utterly disingenuous clap trap right on schedule. Pathetic really doesn't do it justice.

You can't win a trick on these things can you so you resort to mistruths and misrepresentation.

But kicking such a spectacular own goal is becoming a real trend for you isn't it.

But just for giggles I will ask again: “Now where is a link to your figures saying the difference is a few percent?”

Steeie,
The US murder rate for this year is 4.96.
Were I to cherry pick Indigenous communities as you picked US cities to suit your agenda I could, no doubt, come up with similar figures for Aboriginal female rates.

I note that you are still struggling with Psychology 101, keep at it I’m sure you’ll eventually master it.

Dealing directly with those who are responsible for domestic violence is necessary in the short term.
But longer term, finding the cause of violence in the community, and doing something constructive about it, is what we have to do.
What social pressures are making some people leave reason behind, and revert to instinctive behaviour.
Financial woes, lack of opportunity, oppressive laws? Alcoholism?
Just what is it?
And why are some better able to deal with these difficulties?
We don't all become violent and harmful when things go wrong.
And if no clear cause is found, the law must be applied fairly and firmly.
Not with harshness. Not with cruelty. But with impartiality.

It is noted how apologists for aboriginal male violence- SR in particular - brazenly turn the topic from MURDER of aboriginal women to domestic violence among the hated white population. There are varying degrees of domestic violence, unlike MURDER.

I've been too kind. It is not apologising for aboriginal violence, in this case: it is apologising for aboriginal MURDER.

Dear Is Mise,

The Population of the NT is around 250,000, murder rate 8.1 per 100,000.

Detroit is 600,000 with a homicide rate of 47.9 per 100,000.

Sure poverty blights sections of both communities but the overriding factor is gun ownership of which you are a proponent.

Gun ownership is often expressed as part of American culture.

Here we are claiming aboriginal violence is part of their culture and they need to be the ones to fix it. However we have real issue with domestic violence in rural communities, but we don't call it cultural and we inject substantial funds toward attempting to address it.

All I have done is called that out. I am not excusing any of the violence but this seems to have gotten the usual noses out of joint.

And I am, as always, happy to be of service in that regard.