Is Mise

The 'erasing' of history immediately reminded me of Pol Pot. I wondered if he provided a an online correspondence course to the OLO Marxists before his demise.

Dear mhaze,

You really do make my day sometimes. You really can be the most disingenuous of posters can't you.

I was comparing the domestic violence rates of my Shire's rural areas to our neighbouring city.

You plucked your supposed counter evidence from a quote which talked about the difference between those within CAPITAL CITIES and those in regional areas.

In Victoria like other states we have many regional as in non-capital cities like Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo. There are 14 of them in fact which make up an urban population containing the majority of those living in regional areas.

The rates of those experiencing domestic violence in our small farming communities within our Shire is 10 times that of our neighbouring regional city.

The example I gave of two semi rural shires showed the one with the higher percentage of farming families had triple the reported incidents of domestic violence. And as your own bloody article acknowledges there is serious under reporting going on within rural communities.

Mate you really are on a hiding to nothing and all this defensive posturing makes you look even sillier than usual.

Move on.

SR,

Even for you that's pathetic. Your original assertion (claim without facts) was that the difference between your rural shire and the adjacent "major city" was 10 times. That became 3 times when called out.

Now I've provided evidence that the difference is orders of magnitude less and you want to quibble between "major city" and "capital city". Dill.

Either way, you've been exposed.

In the meantime you try very hard to ignore the fact that rural aboriginal DV exceeds all these numbers (including your concocted ones) by orders of magnitude.

SR, we've known for a long time that you struggle as soon as the discussion turns to numbers. I'll leave you in peace to ponder why that might be.

mhaze,

"Even for you that's pathetic!"

Try again. Go back and re-read what I actually
said on page 7. You missed the point being made.
In summary what I was suggesting was to look at
the causes of the problems, to look deeper than
brushing them all aside as just a "cultural
thing."

Regarding Watkin Tench?

The following link is worth a read:

http://corapeople.com.au/tag/watkin-tench/

"The well-educated Tench was motivated by his
British sense of superiority and culture. He had
stories to tell and books to write about the
"savages" at Port Jackson that had been contracted with
publishers before he left Britain.

Excuse my typo - here's the link again:

http://eurapeople.com.au/tag/watkin-tench/