UnSubRocky wrote on Jun 3
rd, 2024 at 11:46pm:
SadKangaroo wrote on Jun 3
rd, 2024 at 6:47am:
On a national level?
I'm not an expert but from what I've been able to find there is not a breakdown based on ethnicity like that.
This is where the data gets less reliable in this area.
There were more than that number of women killed in this time period, but this is meant to focus on domestic and family violence.
Indigenous family and kinship groups are much larger so it impacts the numbers and reporting, so a lot of that data is estimates.
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, who were disproportionately represented in IPV homicide offenders (27%) and victims (27%) compared with their representation in the general population (3.2%).
That takes us to a fork in the road.
To the sane and logical, that is another example of the need to close the gap.
The usual suspects however, are looking for justification to do the opposite and point to this data as reasons why they're unworthy of closing the gap and the more mentally disturbed point to that need as proof of the voice by stealth.
The motivation of the poster will determine the conclusion they choose.
Personally I see this as a problem that can be addressed by working towards closing the gap, but I'm sure the "round em up and shoot them" crowd will see things differently.
I responded to point out that you seem concerned that of the majority of domestic violence deaths in the Northern Territory being that of indigenous offenders was misrepresentation of the national domestic violence deaths. Domestic violence among indigenous people is 35 times the rate of non-indigenous.
Quote:Between 2000 and 2004, there were 150 deaths due to assault among Indigenous Australians
in the four jurisdictions.
Indigenous females and males were nearly ten and nine times more likely to die due to
assault as non-Indigenous females and males, respectively.
The death rate was highest among people aged 35–44 years.
SourceGiven non-indigenous Australians outnumber indigenous Australians in the year 2004 by about 19 million to 500,000, it is worrisome that there was 150 of the 578 deaths from domestic violence attributed to indigenous people -- between the year 2000 and 2004.
It certainly is.
There is no doubt that they're over represented in the statistics.
The difference is, a sane and rational person would look at those numbers and want to find solutions to help them and their communities reduce those numbers.
I wish I had the answers on how to do that, but even that is getting too far ahead of ourselves.
The numbers are being put in the spotlight as a deliberate ploy to portray all members of their community, of their ethnicity, as baby raping murderers, therefore rather than working say towards "closing the gap" or providing them any sort of help towards better infrastructure in their communities, better education and employment opportunities, we should instead be punishing them, withdrawing support etc as they're unworthy "because of the numbers", all the way to pushing justification for past support for their genocide.
Usually when a normal person identifies a problem, their normal human response is to look for a solution.
In this case the problem is being highlighted to justify hate.
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