Shoot the messenger!
Numerous aborigines like Noel Pearson and Lowitja O'donohue have called for action on domestic violence but cant mention it to you blokes.
As for Funky Freo saying there is no evidence for it being more prevalent amongst aborigines, see below.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/05/09/1020914030021.html
It is obvious the most immediate problems are those of child abuse and domestic violence. So far, no government, let alone ATSIC, has plucked up the courage to directly address these crises. Yet, after the alarming suggestion by Northern Territory minister Ah Kit that there is almost no functional Aboriginal community in the territory ("In dangerous territory", on this page on March 11), Lorian Hayes of the Cherbourg community said of domestic violence (Channel Nine, April 28), "it's everywhere . . . it touches every Aborigine family in Australia".
The 2000-01 report on child protection vividly illustrates the problems that have arisen from the past policies of promoting separate communities. With limited prospects of economic advancement and in comparative social isolation, it is not surprising that many residents have vented on others their anger and frustration with life.
The report shows a rate of
care and protection orders for indigenous children more than six times higher than for non-indigenous children - and warns this may understate the extent. These removals from parents reflect an incapacity to manage children, undoubtedly partly reflecting the
domestic violence to which Aboriginal women are 45 times more likely to be subjected than non-indigenous women.
While you lot rant and rave about racism, women and children are getting the crap kicked out of them. Better not talk about it though, as by the definition of racism (The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability) its racist.
Now if only the Australian had shown a priest as a paedophile, then we could all nod our heads at its appropriateness.