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The NSW premier, Chris Minns, spoke earlier this morning after a spate of alleged domestic violence crimes this weekend.
We have numerous examples and allegations of individuals who [are] alleged to have committed horrifying acts against what are often defenceless family members. This is confronting and incredibly violent, but we can’t become numb to the pain or the violence that we see. We still need to take action and commit ourselves across government agencies, law reform, our prisons, New South Wales police, and education and other aspects of government agencies, as well as across civic society, to confront domestic violence when we see it.
We have numerous examples and allegations of individuals who [are] alleged to have committed horrifying acts against what are often defenceless family members. This is confronting and incredibly violent, but we can’t become numb to the pain or the violence that we see.
We still need to take action and commit ourselves across government agencies, law reform, our prisons, New South Wales police, and education and other aspects of government agencies, as well as across civic society, to confront domestic violence when we see it.
Kellie Sloane, the NSW opposition leader, also spoke about a series of alleged domestic violence incidents in the state in recent days.
Sloane told ABC News Breakfast this morning:
Something is broken and we’re failing women in our state and our country. It’s a national crisis. … Every time this happens, we treat it as a wake-up call. People say we need action. We need to talk to men about respect. We need to talk to women about being respectful. We need more funding. We’re in a hopeless situation where things are getting worse. So, you know, this is not just the responsibility of government, although government has a responsibility to properly fund and manage this, but it needs to be a whole of community response. Our sporting clubs, dads in the homes respecting their wives, talking to their kids about what respect means, and then neighbours checking in on people as well.
Something is broken and we’re failing women in our state and our country. It’s a national crisis. … Every time this happens, we treat it as a wake-up call. People say we need action.
We need to talk to men about respect. We need to talk to women about being respectful. We need more funding.
We’re in a hopeless situation where things are getting worse. So, you know, this is not just the responsibility of government, although government has a responsibility to properly fund and manage this, but it needs to be a whole of community response. Our sporting clubs, dads in the homes respecting their wives, talking to their kids about what respect means, and then neighbours checking in on people as well.
The Coalition’s education plan to reduce First Nations content from the curriculum would give Australian children a “broader perspective of history” according to Dan Tehan.
Speaking to Radio National, the Liberal MP said:
We won’t be becoming apologists for who we are. We’ll becoming proud of who we are, what we’ve created as a nation and what we can contribute to the rest of the world. It’s all about getting the balance right and that’s what we’ll be seeking to do in how we have the curriculum taught in schools.Those western civilisation values, in particular, are what is at the heart of who we are as a nation. We want to make sure that that is equally part of the curriculum as it’s taught to young Australians.
The shadow education minister, Julian Leeser, revealed on Saturday that a Coalition government would remove cross-curriculum content about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture, Australia’s engagement with Asia, and sustainability.
He said they should instead be delivered as discrete, planned topics within history, geography or science classes – rather than taught thematically across the curriculum.
NSW police detail ‘horrific’ scenes after Blue Mountains stabbings
Peter McKenna, deputy commissioner for NSW police, just spoke after an alleged stabbing attack by a mother against her three young children, which left one child dead and two others in critical condition.
McKenna said the mother, aged in her 40s, is also in critical condition after the incident, which took place in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, on Sunday afternoon. He said police responded to “horrific” scenes and officer were confronted with a “barbaric” attack.
“I can’t remember a weekend like this in my career,” the deputy commissioner told reporters.
McKenna said the woman, if she recovers from what’s believed to be self-inflicted injuries, would probably be charged with murder and attempted murder.
He said the family was not known to police. The woman’s husband is supporting his two children in hospital and has assisted police with their investigation.
