29 April

Beneath a clickbait headline, the ABC sharing the same data I shared a couple of days ago. Homicides have been in steep decline for decades. And absolutely clearly in the data domestic violence not only shares in this decline, if you take out violence against Indigenous women, it’s fallen even faster. What protest movements call ‘gendered violence’, because gender is a cause celebre for social media, criminologists call intimate partner violence. Because it’s intimate partnerships that are the true cause here, not gender. Particularly those involving Indigenous women. It’s not ‘tone deaf’ to refer to actual data. It’s a rejection of ‘tone’ as a way to run a society.