Domestic violence delusions: feminists pull the wool over our eyes

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.