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Filed under: Domestic Violence — Downunder @ 11:52 am Wed 17th October 2007

This rises by association with the “Terror Raids”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6309791.stm

By Heather Sharp
in Hamilton, New Zealand

And in the most recent national survey of victims of crime, 42% of Maori women said a partner had abused them physically, compared to only 20% of white women.

and

We’re in many ways still a settler society, and the view of the male as macho and physically strong is very strong

Brian Gardner

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