Hobart Mercury
http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2010/03/14/133845_print.html
Violence law faces challenge
GILL VOWLES
March 14, 2010 08:50am
A TASMANIAN group has filed a $200 million class action against Premier Dav >...More
No to violence against women -- but please stop bashing the men.
Kevin Rudd has missed an opportunity to address the social issue of Interpersonal Violence (IPV) in intimate relationships. The recent announcement of $42 >...More
Innocent until proven guilty – forget it, this is domestic violence
The approach to domestic violence prevention is changing tactics once more. No longer is it enough to provide refuge accommodation for mothers and their under 12 year old >...More
In 1986 the Office of the Status of Women put out a publicity campaign against “domestic violence” claiming that one in three women were the victims of domestic violence. This was allegedly based on a study by Straus, Gelles and Steinmetz “Behind Closed >...More
Once again the Federal government in an attempt to shore up their waning popularity have rolled out the anti-male domestic violence campaign, Australia Says No to Violence Against Women, whilst failing to recognise that all violence against men, women and >...More
Tasmania’s civil libertarians, the Law Society and even including the State Director of Public Prosecutions have been shocked to the core by calls to introduce new draconian domestic violence laws that will introduce a presumption against bail, meaning al >...More
NORTH Queensland and the Gold Coast are the state's domestic violence
hotspots, according to leaked police figures which show some districts
spend more than 1000 hours a month dealing with personal disputes.
Studies carried out on male and female bullies in schools and my own observations of abusers show a startling similarity between the two. This has led me to the conclusion that an abuser, whether male or female, is simply a bully who never grew out of >...More
