cods wrote on Jun 8^th, 2016 at 1:10pm:



BILLIONS ... and the only way to stop wasting that money is to stop the problem.

cods wrote on Jun 8^th, 2016 at 1:10pm:


Stats keep growing because we aren't providing enough resources. Education programmes, for one example, work Cods. Look at the decline in smoking rates compared to the 70's due to education aimed at the kids. Same with the safe sex adds (grim reaper) of the 80's, they worked. We haven't seen any safe sex adds for a long time and now aids is actually on the increase again in this country.

we are better off spending $100 now on education, than $1000 later on treatment

Looks like Govco is getting serious.

Not content with Australians being the most taxed people on earth.
In order to fund their overly generous pensions and perks, they are desperately looking for more ways to tax people.

Perhaps if we didnt have more politicians (per capita) than any country on earth.
Perhaps if we didnt pay our politicians more than any country on earth.
Perhaps if we didnt have the single most expensive post employment reward system for politicians and public service personnel.
Perhaps if we had less levels of government
Perhaps if we had less public service personnel sucking on the tit and growing in numbers daily.
Perhaps if we didnt send billions of dollars overseas to countries that hate us.
Perhaps if we had a government not populated by narcissistic, Machiavellian, corrupt politicians and public servants.
Perhaps if Australians were not so apathetic and actually fronted these parasites.

We might have half a chance.

But dont hold your breath. 

Mistress Nicole wrote on Jun 8^th, 2016 at 3:18pm:
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thats right blame someone or something else...

then throw money at it... makes sense.........

And in this week's Budget Chief Minister Andrew Barr announced that $21.4 million was available over the next four years to implement sweeping reforms.

In launching the Safer Families initiative, Barr said it was the most comprehensive package to address family violence in the territory's history.

Eight people have been killed in family violence related incidents since 2012. Estimates from the ACT Domestic Violence Crisis Service suggest that there were another 72 in the 24 years before that.

You would think then that many, many more people have been physically and emotionally abused and survived; that many, many people haven't even become a statistic because they haven't dared report anything to anybody.

The reforms and the resources are long overdue.

But the worrying thing is, will they work?

It seems one of the main problems is the lack of centralised coordination of all the different agencies involved. There are government departments, crisis services, courts and tribunals, the police and lawyers. The list of who gets what out of the Budget coffers is long and piecemeal.

To counter this it's somewhat reassuring that more than $3 million will fund a full-time family safety coordinator-general and a dedicated safe families team to create a centralised hub to foster collaboration.

Let's hope the initiative does what it hopes to do.

Young men today are the softest theyve ever been, but their animal instincts can only be tamed or sublimated, not removed. 

If i were to nominate the one main reason why violence persists, it'd be the obsession with "ending violence".

Young men today are the softest theyve ever been, but their animal instincts can only be tamed or sublimated, not removed. 

If i were to nominate the one main reason why violence persists, it'd be the obsession with "ending violence".