Why only rallies AGAINST Trump have to be held outside:#WomensMarch2018 pic.twitter.com/y2hgM51bAz— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) January 20, 2018
Monday 29 January 2018
The American Resistance has many faces and these are just some of them (20)
Sunday 28 January 2018
In the first 18 days of 2018 two women have died violently allegedly at the hands of their partners in Australia
Destroy the Joint, Counting Dead Women, 18 January 2018:
1 January 03: Margaret Indich (38) died in hospital of injuries sustained at her home in Cloverdale. Her unnamed partner (40) attempted to deny paramedics access to treat her, and left the scene before police arrived. He was arrested hours later, and has been charged with murder. No further details are available at present. https://goo.gl/daodJA WA
2 January 12: British backpacker Amelia Blake (22) died of extensive injuries, including head injuries, in a suspected murder suicide. Her body and that of her partner Brazil Gurung (33) were found on Friday, January 12 at an apartment in Newtown. Police have indicated that they are treating the deaths as murder-suicide, but have not released details as they await post mortem findings. Inquiries continue https://goo.gl/1d4phf NSW
These sad incidents began the domestic violence death cycle for 2018.
Last year the NSW Coroner's NSW Domestic Violence Death Review Team produced a report which looked at NSW domestic violence homicides between 2000-2014.
This report reveals that over this fourteen year period females were dying as a result of domestic violence at a greater rate than males. Crudely averaged out there were an est.11 female deaths a year as a result of intimate partner domestic violence compared to est. 3 male deaths a year. The majority of male deaths were those of the primary domestic violence abuser in the relationship.
These sad incidents began the domestic violence death cycle for 2018.
Last year the NSW Coroner's NSW Domestic Violence Death Review Team produced a report which looked at NSW domestic violence homicides between 2000-2014.
This report reveals that over this fourteen year period females were dying as a result of domestic violence at a greater rate than males. Crudely averaged out there were an est.11 female deaths a year as a result of intimate partner domestic violence compared to est. 3 male deaths a year. The majority of male deaths were those of the primary domestic violence abuser in the relationship.
Here are some excerpts from that report.
In
the data reporting period 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2014 there were 204 cases
where a person was killed by a current or former intimate partner in a context
of domestic violence (162 females and 42 males).
Key
data findings:
•
79% of intimate partner homicide victims were women.
•
98% of women killed by an intimate partner had been the primary domestic violence
victim in the relationship.
•
37% of women in this dataset were killed by a former intimate partner, and
almost two thirds of these women had ended the intimate relationship with the
domestic violence abuser within three months of being killed.
•
Women killed by an intimate partner were aged between 15 and 80 years of age.
•
12% of women killed by an intimate partner identified as Aboriginal.
•
89% of men killed by a female intimate partner had been the primary domestic
violence abuser in the relationship. All 7 men killed by a male intimate
partner had been the primary domestic violence victim in the relationship.
•
31% of men killed by an intimate partner identified as Aboriginal.
•
24% of men who killed an intimate partner suicided following the murder.
•
Males who killed an intimate partner were aged between 17 and 87 years of age.
•
26% of females who killed an intimate partner were acquitted at trial…..
In
the data reporting period there were 109 cases where a person was killed by a
relative/kin in a context of domestic violence (44 adults and 65 children under
the age of 18 years).
Between 2000-2014 there were also 65 child domestic violence homicide victims. Their age range was between 4 weeks and 14 years of age, with 55 per cent being less than 4 years old.
Key
data findings: child homicide victims
•
Chid homicide victims in this dataset were aged between 4 weeks and 14 years of
age, with 55% of children being aged less than 4 years of age.
•
42% of children were killed by their biological father acting alone and 26%
were killed by their biological mother acting alone.
•
18% of children were killed by a male nonbiological parent acting alone and 3%
were killed by a female non-biological parent acting alone.
•
20% of child homicide victims in this dataset identified as Aboriginal.
•
31% of male homicide perpetrators in this dataset suicided after killing a
child/ren compared to 10% of female homicide perpetrators
In the NSW Police Force Region - Northern (which covers police local area commands from Brisbane Waters up to the NSW-Qld border) there
were 46 adult intimate partner domestic violence homicide victims and 18 child
domestic violence homicide victims between 2000-2014.
Saturday 27 January 2018
Just because it is beautiful.....(35)
Green Sea Turtle
Chelonia mydas
Found in tropical and subtropical coastal waters, Pacific Ocean
Nests on a small number of Australian beaches
mid-late October to late March-early April
Listed as Vulnerable
Quote of the Week
“Malcolm Turnbull fooled many into believing he was a moderate. But he was lying. Malcolm Turnbull is not a kinder, gentler conservative. He has not been a moderate prime minister. He is a wealthy lawyer and businessman whose main policy commitment appears to be to staying in power.” [University lecturer & journalist Ben Eltham writing in New Matilda, 9 January 32018]
Friday 26 January 2018
It's Australia Day and......
…the truth is that few Australians - who will either quietly or with loud jingoism celebrate today - know the day’s real history or meaning.
It also seems that only a minority of the population are likely to object if the federal and state governments decide to change the date.
The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 January 2018:
A majority of voters would not mind if Australia Day was shifted to a different date and most don't know why it's currently held on January 26.
New polling also reveals that only about a third of Australians – 37 per cent – realise the date is offensive to many Indigenous people because it represents the beginning of the dispossession and violence of British colonisation.
As the political and community debate about the "change the date" movement continues to intensify, the Research Now survey of 1417 people suggests nearly all Australians – 84 per cent – think it is important the country has a national day of celebration.
But 56 per cent say they don't mind when the day occurs, challenging the notion that Australians see January 26 as sacred or untouchable.
The polling also reveals 77 per cent of people believe – incorrectly – that the celebration has always occurred on January 26, the date the First Fleet planted the flag in NSW in 1788.
The date was in fact not adopted by all states until 1935, and has only been celebrated in its current form since 1994.
The polling commissioned by the progressive Australia Institute think tank was conducted among a nationally representative sample in December.
"This polling shows that while Australia Day is important to most Australians, most people are laid back about the date we celebrate on," said deputy director Ebony Bennett.
Given 11 multiple choice options, 38 per cent correctly identified the event January 26 marks. And just under half knew it had anything to do with the First Fleet at all.
Others believed it marked the day Captain Cook first sighted Australia, the day the constitution was signed or the day Australia became independent.
Four per cent of people linked the date to events that have not actually happened, including becoming a republic or signing a treaty with Aboriginal Australia.
Asked to nominate what date would be the best to celebrate Australia Day, 70 per cent preferred a date not associated with the First Fleet. And fewer than a quarter (23 per cent) selected the landing in Sydney Cove as the best of a range of options.
Only 37 per cent of people agreed the current date was offensive to Indigenous people, even though many Indigenous leaders have long been calling for change. Nearly half of people – 46 per cent – disagreed the date was problematic.
Asked if Australia Day should not be on a day that is hurtful to Aboriginal people, 49 per cent agreed and 36 per cent disagreed…..
"Australia Day is a day on which the overwhelming majority of Australians – all but a handful – are proud of Australia and its achievements," he told 2GB radio. [my yellow highlighting]
Sometimes social media rocks
Rightwing ratbag Senator Cory Bernardi thought he had a great idea – put together a Spotify playlist of songs for Australia Day listening and advertise same on Twitter for the political party he leads…..
The response from singers, songwriters and bands included on that list was not long in coming……………………….
Spotify appeared to get the message……………………….
Via @corybernardi
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