mothra wrote on Dec 17
th, 2024 at 8:38am:
Not to even remotely minimise these instances but we know, Frank. Not a single person is denying it.
What is continued to be denied is the very real, direct and predictable association between family and community violence with endemic poverty, disadvantage and grief and loss.
A respected Alice Springs traditional owner and director of a community organisation tasked with stamping out domestic and youth violence in the crime-ravaged outback city beat his long-term partner in an alcohol-fuelled assault earlier this year.
Asked whether it was appropriate for him to be counselling other men on domestic violence, he said: “Yep.”
“Just letting them know you shouldn’t be doing this,” he said.
Mr Stevens said he was “getting away from alcohol” in light of the incident.
“If you’re drinking alcohol, alcohol caused that problem. It’s all about alcohol … if you stay out of it, you’ll have a good life,” he said. “You’ll love being with your partner. It’s all about that alcohol, that’s all.”
In the wake of the assault, Mr Stevens volunteered to stand down as the Alice Springs Hospital’s Aboriginal Liaison Officer, he said. He maintains what happened was “an accident”.
He doesn't think it was endemic poverty and disadvantage. H ed is an elder, a director, a TO.
He thin kms it was an "accident", ffs. No whitey in such a leadership position could say it was an 'accident" and not be a laughing stock.
But of course even Aborigines realise and recognise this:
Multiple members of the Alice Springs Indigenous community slammed Mr Stevens for remaining on the Lhere Artepe board despite the incident, and have said it was an “
open secret in the black community”.
“Why is somebody with serious domestic violence convictions sitting at the top of the food chain when you’ve got the (police) commissioner and Chief Minister talking about domestic violence in the town?” one person said.
Another said: “
The Territory can’t have DV offenders as leaders, we’re a laughing stock.”This case illustrates that the "endemic poverty, disadvantage and grief and loss" hooey is a sinister excuse for getting mighty pissed and clobbering your wife with a stick. Or ALL the other horrendous, vicious cruelty that Aborigines inflict on each other.