Australia's government a domestic violence relationship

@moderator

Is it worth moving this to "advocating for change"?

@avant-garde

Good idea and thank you for your help in suggesting this.

kind regards

hi @Spirited

Thank you for posting. We (the moderators) have moved this post to Advocating for Change.

kind regards @RadAcceptance20

Not just the feds, the states as well.

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@Spirited wrote:

Does anyone see the Australian government in the form of a very abusive relationship with the people of Australia?

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Very much so, yes.

But IMHO it goes way beyond government and more or less spans the entire 'ruling class', so to speak.

The academic world is a particularly grievous offender, and it starts as far back as kindergarden.

"Do what we want to see, and tell us what we want to hear, or we will hurt you. Probably not with literal physical violence, but we will find a way to terrorize you into submission." It's the way the whole school system works.

The parralels with literal domestic violence are glaring; yet for some bizarre reason our culture views one as being perfectly fine, and the other as being inexcusable. Don't ask me to explain it, because I just don't get it at all.

@chibam this is an interesting perspective. I suppose it comes from choosing to live in denial of what is actually going on in our societies and then also feeling powerless to create change. Comments & having conversations like this help raise awareness but don't do much to fix a broken system which feeds off taking advantage of the vunerable.

Royal commission into this

Yes @Spirited

Hello @chibam @MedicinalGypsy and all...

I have submitted to enquiries and Royal Commissions, but losing hope. Still I do think your conversation matters.

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@Appleblossom wrote:

I have submitted to enquiries and Royal Commissions, but losing hope.

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Same, @Appleblossom .

Most of the time their responses are so wishy-washy and jargony that it's pretty much impossible for a layman to determine what they've said at all. But to the brief extent that I can discern what they've said, it usually doesn't seem like their actually listening.

Moreover, the proof is in the pudding; and despite the abundance of inquries, ect., nothing ever seems to get any better.

20 years ago, there was nowhere for anyone like me to turn for help (although the mental health system was mis-marketed as such a place). All this time later, we're still in exactly the same predicament.

From what I hear from most Victorians, the MH system down there is no better for that massive, supposedly earth-shattering inquiry they held those many years ago.