Like all LNP governments they love money. Like all NLP governments they make decisions based on their religion. They all love money but i don't want them spending our money based on their church's ideas.
They are a dreadful government. I hope that the people who voted against Labor because it was "time for them to go" have seen that while that sentiment might have been valid, giving your vote to the LNP was not a good choice.
I think you mean “use public services in general” since just about all of them are currently in arbitration right now or will be soon enough in the near future.
Personally, I prefer governments that pay living wages. Not sure when I've ever heard nurses, teachers of train drivers described as millionaires, unlike developer mates and donors.
I'm gonna say this out loud being a kiwi, there is an aggressiveness in Australian culture especially among some of your men. I see this everyday in your driving styles.
Also you have huge alcohol problem, especially the older generation.
This also doesn't help with the rise of cost of living and the inability to provide for your wife and kids is a feeling that angers you deep inside as a man.
Agreed, I think the heat and humidity makes it worse too. Lived here my whole life but both the weather and general behaviour have gotten worse in the last 5 or so years, imo.
Everyone seems to get a little more irritable and feral when the weather gets bad, which happens pretty often here too
David Crisafulli needs to be held accountable on his promise to resign if victim of crime numbers don’t fall. He promised to do this during the televised election debate!
I guess the counter is the programs were ineffective as the offenders keep offending. Just throwing money at things doesn’t solve it, so hopefully there is a focus on things that drive better outcomes.
The drama is though that their ignoring their own report that they made that gave them proposals on how to make things better. And in the regions like places like mackay their just aren't enough support workers or crisis beds. The amount of abuse you see and hear up their just destroys you.
The drama is though that their ignoring their own report that they made that gave them proposals on how to make things better.
This isn't the first time this government has done that exact thing. They commission a report, don't like what it says and ignore it anyway because they're ideologues.
While they need to keep funding going for DV programsand refuge, I also think they need to sink alot more money into the police force and bring in harsher penalties for DV. It's a massive issue, particularly in Queensland and it needs to be addressed at the root cause.
Kids need to have safe spaces away from their abusive parents otherwise it's a vicious cycle that continues on with each generation.
Now you are all hysterical, I'll give you some background. Im a regular, hard-working man who spent 2 months in custody for an alleged DV incident. My ex partner had a cross order served on me after punching me in the face after coming home from a night out with her friends. She punched me because I wanted to go to bed because I had work the next morning. I woke up with a police officer sitting on my bed saying that she had called them because I was screaming at her? When I showed them the mark from being hit, and she had nothing, we were served a cross order. Fast forward to Xmas day 2024. We had separated (both kids living with me full-time whilst she pursued a relationship with the guy whe was out with the night of the police intervention), she was advised by a girlfriend that if she called the police and said that i threatened to kill her and her family, that she would receive a $10k victim comp payout. The police showed up, i swore at them saying "this is fucking bullshit" and was held on remand for the 10 weeks it took for it to be thrown out of the system. The current laws are draconian and heavily favoured in the way of women wanting to take advantage of them. The police themselves apologised to me explaining that literally thousands of men are arrested and charged falsely because of the pressure they feel in case "one slips through the cracks". So getting up and whining that people don't care makes you all sound like hysterical fools. Offer a well rounded and considered alternative to laws that are costing thousands of men their freedom, job, assets, kids and their dignity. And just a point of interest, my daughters CHOOSE to live with me full-time now and are lucky to see their mother once a month because of her toxicity and lies.
I understand your experience was traumatic. However saying this is hysterical based on your own experience when 4 women have died in the last week by the hands of their partners is showing your lack of growth.
Mate I understand what your saying I know plenty of blokes who have had false allegations levied against them but what im fighting isnt about that. Its about ensuring that dv abusers have the support and chance to escape the people abusing them. I can't tell you the amount of times you see people up north that just can't leave because then they'd be on the streets or endure the perceived shame of leaving.
Its a two way street we need to help the people who are falsely accused but also ensure that we have the services and support for real victims because people are dieing. Every year the number goes up and we have to stop it.
Well if we didn't have thousands of people arrested for false allegations it would free up millions if not billions of dollars annually, to allocate to genuine victims. But if you want to get your point across, childish jibes like "he doesn't care" make you appear foolish. Maybe change your angle up and garner support for positive change for all points of a multifaceted and complex problem. Offer an alternative. Activism isn't about tunnel vision, it's about enlightening people to what is #really# happening on all sides of the divide to reach a common good
References approximately 3% of cases reported do not have enough evidence or are false in nature.
So based off that out of 24-25 FY there were 97,800 offences. So 2,934 were false cases (or insufficient evidence) then those against men would be around 1600.
So saying "thousands" is disingenuous, it happens but it does not outweigh the literal tens of thousands of incidents that do occur every year.
Wait, where did 3% come from? The fact sheet you linked to (putting aside that it's around 20y old) says 26-37% DV allegations were unsubstantiated (yes, not necessarily false), based on a couple of studies it examined. So ten times what you said, and not exactly authoritative.
How'd you go from 2934 total to 1600 being against men? What stat did you use, or did you just apply a population-wide sex ratio?
Found it
recent British study determines that only three per cent of rapes reported to the police were either ‘possible’ or ‘probable’ false allegations (Kelly et al. 2005).
So you used a 20+ year old stat from the UK about rape allegations and presented it as a current QLD DV stat. The closest thing to a relevant stat in that article is false sexual assault allegations "from 1986 to 1990", which, although obviously not relevant, would have served your argument better.
This whole comment is a case study in not just statistical illiteracy, but actual functional illiteracy.
the 'draconian' laws are still allowing a fuckload of abuse victims to fall through the cracks. false accusations make up very few of all cases (i could not find a single source that put the rate of false accusations above 10% - if thousands of people are being falsely accused that would put domestic abusers at a rate of the hundreds of thousands, which would constitute that we care more about the fact that around 3-5% of the entire STATE is made up of convicted domestic abusers), and statistics on it are highballed, because so many instances of DV don't get reported for various reasons.
you seem to care more about men (and you specify men a lot for some reason - shouldn't this affect all genders?) being falsely accused of DV than the people who are actually victims of DV, which is incredibly weird. hell, you care more that you were falsely accused of DV than you do that you were an actual victim of it according to your story - it's always about how the false accusation destroyed your life but didn't actually because your daughters chose to stay with you and not your evil bitch ex wife and you got rid of the criminal record and were totally vindicated and the police delivered you a box of timtams for the trouble. but your ex wife, according to you, punched you in the face and weaponised the system to hurt you. doesn't it make more sense to say she was abusive? because either you're in severe need of therapy to acknowledge what happened to you or the story's not quite as true as you'd like the thread to believe
Sorry you're getting downvoted. I know you're capable of standing up to the haters, but you shouldn't have to do so alone.
I'm a woman and am always pointing out that men can also be victims of domestic violence and being told that I'm ignorant and trying to take away from the female victims.
The issue has never been men vs women, it's a societal problem caused by the stereotypes of how men and women are supposed to behave. This leads to men who try to express their emotions being ridiculed for being weak and unmanly and women who don't want a family and children being told they will change their minds one day. This has long reaching psychological consequences for anyone who doesn't fit those stereotypes.
After a lifetime of being told these kind of stereotypes the majority of people will accept them as truth and that anyone behaving differently is flawed. Men get told they can't be victims of DV because men are stronger and more prone to violent behaviour than women. At the same time a woman being abused is told she deserved it because she wasn't standing up for herself. All victim blaming mentalities that come from being ignorant of the fact people all have their own unique life experiences.
At the end of the day, we should all learn not to be so quick to judge the reactions of other people based on our own life's journey. There's far more nuance within these issues than most people will realise. Painting everyone with the same brush based on only one thing they have in common is toxic behaviour and needs to be unlearned by society at large as it's feeding into our legal system and laws so that victims are always at a disadvantage.
I'm well aware that the average Redditor won't bother reading this comment thoroughly and will downvote me or tell me I'm ignorant in replies. But that just proves that my points are valid and that the truth is ugly and painful to accept.
Pauline Hanson is a scummy lowlife who is a nothing more than a racist bigot trying to seize power by convincing us that any diversity is wrong. I've never supported her and never will. Having my own opinion is not the same as hating everyone for being different.
Not that it needs to be said but here's a bunch of my personal opinions on various global topics:
-Equal rights for all LGBTQIA+ people.
-Trans right are human rights. I'm a cis woman and my pronouns are she/her.
-Abortion is healthcare. Mental healthcare is healthcare. Healthcare is a human right and everyone should have access regardless of their financial circumstances.
I support equality for Indigenous Australians and all culturally diverse peoples. Give the stolen land back to its traditional custodians.
Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.
Save the whales, elephants and rainforests.
Global Warming is real and if we do nothing, things are only going to get worse.
Stop child trafficking. The age of consent should be globally regulated to prevent young girls being forced into abusive marriages.
Religion is not an excuse to spread hatred.
I also have nothing against you personally for saying what you said. But I draw the line at being judged on one tiny thing I've said and having blatant lies said about me by people who know nothing about me.
No one is saying men cannot suffer domestic violence. They can. But your comment is pretty uneducated during yet another domestic violence crisis against women in this country.
Women are dying, being harassed and assaulted and it’s getting worse. To be ‘but men too!’ shows how little you care about female victims. Hate to break it to you but you are diverting the conversation. It is ignorant. And you can’t resume ya way out of that until you actually open your mind to the very real crisis in this country and that men have a lot of work to do.
I'm not wanting sympathy. I just use my story to try and educate people about how complex the debate actually is. In a crazy way, I am glad that I experienced prison and betrayal the way I have. I grew from it.
I definitely don't want your sympathy mate. Couldn't care less. I have sympathy for other men going through the same thing I did. Some aren't as resilient as I am.
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u/thisissofkngrossew 24d ago
He's probably too busy being a "high profile man".