Domestic violence delusions: feminists pull the wool over our eyes

"You can't hand out domestic violence orders like parking tickets." Well, that's exactly what they have in mind for residents of our Deep North.

The speaker was Terry O'Gorman from the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, protesting on television news about the latest domestic violence madness taking over his state. Under sweeping "reforms" announced earlier this month, police officers will be able to hand out 12-month Police Protection Directives on the spot – bypassing current court processes.

The Queensland Police Union has been running a grim television campaign featuring a full screen shot of a closed fist and a vicious, snarling man – making the case that police are drowning in domestic violence cases, which they say comprise up to 90% of their workload.

Between 2012-2024, the number of calls for service to domestic violence incidents increased from 60,000 to more than 192,000, an increase of 218 per cent. Queensland Police received almost 200,000 domestic violence related calls in 2024, which means they are responding to these cases every three minutes.

"Policing has been crumbling under this pressure," says Police Minister Dan Purdie, explaining the current situation is unsustainable, with officers unable to address issues like burglaries, car theft and road safety.

Yet if we take a step back, we can see that the rate of actual violence is going down in this country – according to the official data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Between 2005 and 2021-22, the 12-month prevalence rate of physical violence declined for both men and women:

• Men – from 10% in 2005 to 6.1% in 2021-22

• Women – from 4.7% in 2005 to 2.9% in 2021-22

Homicides are also going down, even between intimate partners. Last year The Australian Institute of Criminology released the latest figures which demonstrated a 30-year decline in intimate partner domestic homicide – "The female intimate partner homicide rate decreased overall by two-thirds (66 per cent) in the 34-year period between 1989-90 and 2022-23."

And according to our best official domestic violence data, The ABS's Personal Safety Survey, less than one percent of women report physical violence from their partner or ex-partner in the previous year – and that too is decreasing.

We are not seeing any real increase in threats to women's safety. Yet alongside the mercifully small numbers of cases of genuine violence towards women, we are witnessing an epidemic of false allegations, or complaints based on unpleasant but essentially trivial behaviour – a raised voice, slammed door, unpaid credit card. These are now construed as coercive control, financial abuse, threats of violence or any of the long list of behaviours which set men up as perpetrators of domestic violence.

Last year I published an interview with two Queensland police officers voicing their anguish about being forced to spend their time dealing with complaints they know to be manufactured or grossly inflated. They described the widespread cynicism amongst their colleagues at the ideological, male-baiting spin driving the whole domestic violence industry and their resentment at being the ones required to enforce unjust laws targeting men.

They mentioned police leaving the force due to widespread disquiet at what is going on. Turnover of police officers in Queensland used to run at around 2.7%. It's been twice that in recent years - 5.3% according to latest figures. And new recruits are hard to find - in late 2022 police had to cancel recruit training due to the lack of new recruits and the authorities are still missing recruitment targets.

Within the police service it is well recognised that false or trivial domestic violence allegations are a contagion undermining the critical role they play in our justice system. But heaven forbid any main player who dares to publicly give voice to this concern.

The head of the Police Union, Shane Prior, who is spearheading the current campaign, was in trouble four years ago when his union made a submission to a domestic violence inquiry pointing out that false allegations of domestic violence are regularly used to gain advantage in family law disputes and that members of the police force are finding themselves on the receiving end of false complaints.

At that time Prior received a walloping from the domestic violence lobby groups who lined up to dismiss his claims as 'factually incorrect'. This year he's going overboard, lobbying for all domestic violence allegations to be treated as criminal offences. It is clearly safer to appease the feminist ideologues than to speak out against unjust laws.

What this appears to be about is police trying to find a way out of the 4.6 hours they currently spend dealing with each domestic violence report. The proposed Police Protection Directives would mean they could just issue a 12-month on the spot protection direction instead of having to go through all the processes required to get a court to issue a violence order.

Funnily enough, the PPD proposal immediately ran into problems with lobby groups worrying that women could be dragged into this new efficiency net scooping up offenders. "It could cause further damage to victim survivors as police regularly misidentify who the perpetrator is," said Aimee McVeigh, CEO of the Queensland Council of Social Service. In fact, the Queensland police I interviewed last year said their investigations often found evidence that women were perpetrators, but they were under enormous pressure from their bosses to only charge men.

An interesting case was reported earlier this month where a female magistrate refused an application by the Queensland Police Commissioner for access to domestic violence records involving a female officer. The female cop had made violence accusations against her husband who in turn lodged a cross-application against her – which led to the Police Commissioner seeking her records to see what was going on. Magistrate Janelle Brassington refused access to the documents claiming she was protecting the officer's confidentiality, voicing her concern that "victims could be deterred from seeking protection because of the fear of reprisal applications triggering similar investigatory action." That suggests no one is allowed to even investigate if violence could be two-way.

Feminists have very effectively infiltrated institutions across the country ensuring women are protected from proper scrutiny, let alone actual charges. The Police Union's proposed reforms include a recommendation that "supervising officers must conduct a 100% audit of charges/police protection directions where the respondent is female."

At the coalface, it isn't hard to find police officers alarmed at this hijacking of their proper policing role. But the public narrative has been well and truly captured. Last month I published my important interview with Stuart Lindsay, a former Family Court judge, speaking out about judges being forced to "bend the knee" to the feminist ideology which he said was being imposed throughout the Family Court system. Domestic violence allegations are at the heart of that ideology, being used to the detriment of the best interests of children and giving women enormous power to manipulate the system.

So domestic violence is being used to create havoc, not only in the Family Court system but also in policing. Everywhere there are people in power - politicians, bureaucrats, police chiefs, managers - being forced to "bend the knee" and pretend that there actually is an epidemic of violence in this country, rather than simply a scary display of women's willingness to distort the truth about their relationships to gain the truckload of rewards that comes with victim status.

It is just extraordinary that feminists have managed to pull the wool over our eyes with this dystopian fantasy of a country quaking in fear of the male fist when the true power is firmly in female hands.