Billions mate

09/06/2024

The federal gubment is committing $4.2 billion to combat domestic violence against women and children in Australia.

They’re going to spend it on legal services for the victims, they say.

That’s $4,200,000,000. Which is a lot of legal fees, you’d have to agree?

They’ll have to also invest in judges and gaols, assuming those legal fees are going to result in a few more prisoners.

Assuming, generously, that each case will cost say $100k in legal fees, then that’s 42,000 extra inmates.

There’s about 10m couples in Australia, with and without children, married and defacto.

So they’re suggesting that about 1 in 200 coupled-up fellas are going to cop it, at tax payers expense.

I’m thinking it might be more effective just to offer those blokes the $100k as a cash incentive not to practise domestic violence.

The alternative to just give the money to the lawyers, as if that will do any good.

If your solution to a problem is the legal system, then you don’t have a solution at all.