Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Violence in the Aboriginal community in Australia has become a problem—well, it continues to be a problem, to be more accurate. The Government, in their infinite wisdom, always wants to show they’re helping by splashing taxpayer money around, and certainly, this case is no different.
The ABC reported this week on the “First national plan to address violence against Indigenous women and children.” Strangely, they don’t include violence against Aboriginal men, which, as I’ll show you soon, is also a major problem.
And how much does this latest exercise in bureaucracy cost? Exceedingly expensive! $220 million. But don’t worry, it was “co-designed with Indigenous people”—phew, that’s a relief! Remember, this is just a plan. All these websites and “frameworks” don’t just make themselves.
The new website, if you’re interested, is called: Our Ways – Strong Ways – Our Voices. Curiously, they also have a ‘donate’ button, just in case you think the government funding isn’t enough.
To be fair, according to the ABC, the real figure is “$218.3 million in new funding over four years.” The fact they said “new” funding makes me think there was some old funding.
Yep, according to the official press release by Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy—who, of course, highlighted that $218 million—she also wrote: “This new funding is in addition to the record $262.5 million we’ve already invested in… the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Action Plan 2023-2025.”
Not to mention “our significant investment of $367 million to more than double funding for Family Violence Prevention Legal Services.” I’m not the nation’s treasurer, but adding all those figures up comes to almost $850 million in taxpayer money spent on preventing violence against Aboriginal women and children.
The ABC interviewed Muriel Bamblett—“a Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung and Boon Wurrung elder” and CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency—who co-chaired the committee for this new plan. Without using any “sexist” language, she said:
“We shouldn’t have to respond to a death of a woman at the hands of a male every time to be able to get resources.”
But has all this funding worked? Well, let’s take a look at the figures.
This is the latest Homicide data published in March last year: “Homicide in Australia 2023–24.” Just to get a baseline, we’ll take a look at Table 38: Non-Indigenous homicide offenders. As you can see, non-Indigenous males commit homicide at a rate of 1.75 per 100,000—that sounds relatively low. Non-Indigenous females have a homicide rate of 0.20—very low, I would suggest.
Now let’s take a look at Table 34: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander homicide offenders. As you can see, the rates are significantly higher. I’ll just paste in the non-Indigenous data for comparison. Indigenous males have a homicide rate of 10.80, which is more than six times that of non-Indigenous males. Indigenous females have a rate of 2.99, which is almost 15 times that of a non-Indigenous females. Okay, so all this shows is that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are more likely to commit homicide than their non-Indigenous counterparts.
But what about victims, though? Table 22: Non-Indigenous homicide victims by sex shows that males are likely to be victims at a rate of 1.13, compared to 0.63 for women. Now let’s look at Table 17: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander homicide victims by sex. As you can see, at a rate of 5.86, Aboriginal males are more than five times more likely to be victims of homicide than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Similarly, Aboriginal females have a homicide victimisation rate of 2.75, which is more than four times that of non-Indigenous females.
So what does all this show? Basically, Aboriginal people are much more likely to kill people, but also much more likely to be victims of being killed. The only sensible conclusion—the one the government seems desperate to ignore—is that Aboriginal people are killing each other at an alarming rate.
But some of you might be saying, “$850 million isn’t so much in the grand scheme of things if we can prevent a little bit of violence against Aboriginal people.”
Never fear! More funding is here! New commitments announced by the Prime Minister include:
• $299 million to double the number of jobs in remote communities;
• $144.1 million to upgrade and repair community-controlled health clinics;
• $27.4 million to subsidise for essential grocery items;
• $32.7 million towards food storage;
• $44.4 million towards Birthing on Country;
• $48.3 million for short-term hostel accommodation; and
• $450 million for Indigenous health.
So as you can see, there’s hundreds of millions of dollars for everyone—as long as you’re Aboriginal, and as long as you didn’t make the mistake of being born male.
MUSIC
Allégro by Emmit Fenn
Violence in the Aboriginal community in Australia has become a problem—well, it continues to be a problem, to be more accurate. The Government, in their infinite wisdom, always wants to show they’re helping by splashing taxpayer money around, and certainly, this case is no different.
The ABC reported this week on the “First national plan to address violence against Indigenous women and children.” Strangely, they don’t include violence against Aboriginal men, which, as I’ll show you soon, is also a major problem.
And how much does this latest exercise in bureaucracy cost? Exceedingly expensive! $220 million. But don’t worry, it was “co-designed with Indigenous people”—phew, that’s a relief! Remember, this is just a plan. All these websites and “frameworks” don’t just make themselves.
The new website, if you’re interested, is called: Our Ways – Strong Ways – Our Voices. Curiously, they also have a ‘donate’ button, just in case you think the government funding isn’t enough.
To be fair, according to the ABC, the real figure is “$218.3 million in new funding over four years.” The fact they said “new” funding makes me think there was some old funding.
Yep, according to the official press release by Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy—who, of course, highlighted that $218 million—she also wrote: “This new funding is in addition to the record $262.5 million we’ve already invested in… the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Action Plan 2023-2025.”
Not to mention “our significant investment of $367 million to more than double funding for Family Violence Prevention Legal Services.” I’m not the nation’s treasurer, but adding all those figures up comes to almost $850 million in taxpayer money spent on preventing violence against Aboriginal women and children.
The ABC interviewed Muriel Bamblett—“a Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung and Boon Wurrung elder” and CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency—who co-chaired the committee for this new plan. Without using any “sexist” language, she said:
“We shouldn’t have to respond to a death of a woman at the hands of a male every time to be able to get resources.”
But has all this funding worked? Well, let’s take a look at the figures.
This is the latest Homicide data published in March last year: “Homicide in Australia 2023–24.” Just to get a baseline, we’ll take a look at Table 38: Non-Indigenous homicide offenders. As you can see, non-Indigenous males commit homicide at a rate of 1.75 per 100,000—that sounds relatively low. Non-Indigenous females have a homicide rate of 0.20—very low, I would suggest.
Now let’s take a look at Table 34: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander homicide offenders. As you can see, the rates are significantly higher. I’ll just paste in the non-Indigenous data for comparison. Indigenous males have a homicide rate of 10.80, which is more than six times that of non-Indigenous males. Indigenous females have a rate of 2.99, which is almost 15 times that of a non-Indigenous females. Okay, so all this shows is that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are more likely to commit homicide than their non-Indigenous counterparts.
But what about victims, though? Table 22: Non-Indigenous homicide victims by sex shows that males are likely to be victims at a rate of 1.13, compared to 0.63 for women. Now let’s look at Table 17: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander homicide victims by sex. As you can see, at a rate of 5.86, Aboriginal males are more than five times more likely to be victims of homicide than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Similarly, Aboriginal females have a homicide victimisation rate of 2.75, which is more than four times that of non-Indigenous females.
So what does all this show? Basically, Aboriginal people are much more likely to kill people, but also much more likely to be victims of being killed. The only sensible conclusion—the one the government seems desperate to ignore—is that Aboriginal people are killing each other at an alarming rate.
But some of you might be saying, “$850 million isn’t so much in the grand scheme of things if we can prevent a little bit of violence against Aboriginal people.”
Never fear! More funding is here! New commitments announced by the Prime Minister include:
• $299 million to double the number of jobs in remote communities;
• $144.1 million to upgrade and repair community-controlled health clinics;
• $27.4 million to subsidise for essential grocery items;
• $32.7 million towards food storage;
• $44.4 million towards Birthing on Country;
• $48.3 million for short-term hostel accommodation; and
• $450 million for Indigenous health.
So as you can see, there’s hundreds of millions of dollars for everyone—as long as you’re Aboriginal, and as long as you didn’t make the mistake of being born male.
MUSIC
Allégro by Emmit Fenn
