No number of conferences; no amount of committees; no accumulation of legal orders or laws; no quantity of money thrown at the problem; no appointments of Ministers for Women's Affairs is going to have (or has) any measurable reduction of the incidence of domestic violence in Australia or any other caring country.
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The ONLY action with even a whiff of a chance of success is for the siblings, peers and contemporaries of the perpetrators of this abhorrent crime to try to convince them that to hit a woman (or child or elderly person) for any reason is cowardly and belittles them.
Stop making excuses for the violence and yes, report any incident to the police. It is not "the drugs", "the alcohol", "the culture" that leads to the feral behaviour.
Ross Holborow
Smithtown
