To shrink from identifying Aboriginal culture as a fountainhead of domestic violence is to concede that Aboriginal women are worth less, and deserve less, than other Australian women. Alas, wrapped in a tactful silence, such is the prevailing attitude

Disgruntled activist-journalists might prefer us to believe that we are neither free nor competent to express our views for ourselves -- because then we must look to them to speak, protest, vandalise, hector, bully and obfuscate on our behalf.

As a mid-level Aboriginal bureaucrat working in various government and […]