Demonising Men While Ignoring Female Filicide Data

If you’re a man in Australia, you’d be fully aware of the anti-male rhetoric currently occurring in the Australian Government and the media regarding violence against women. One would think there are only male criminals in Australia, which is obviously, and rationally, not true. Obviously, the vast majority of men are not criminals, so to make us all feel guilty over this is insulting. For example, MPs Amanda Rishworth, Minister for Social Services, and Justine Elliot, Assistant Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence, just yesterday released a statement titled, “Investing to help keep women and children safe”. They promise to “lead the development of national, evidence-based standards for men’s behaviour change programs.” They will fund “services designed to break the intergenerational transmission of violence and programs that work with men – including men’s behaviour change”, and will develop “evidence-based standards for men’s behaviour change”. As I said, rationally, we all know that it’s not just men committing crimes, but for some reason, only the behaviour of men needs to be changed. This is bordering on dystopian. I’m sure you’ve heard by now about the Premier of Victoria Jacinta Allan’s new Parliamentary Secretary for Men’s Behaviour Change – Dystopian and Orwellian.

But I’m not here for that. Specifically, I’m here to talk about filicide, the killing of one’s own child, an absolute abhorrent crime. I would classify it as one of the worst crime’s imaginable, as you are killing a person who you are supposed to be protecting, one that is completely dependent on you. Unsurprisingly, the media are blaming men. In this ABC article a couple of months ago, “Filicide overwhelmingly linked to male perpetrators who ‘deeply believe their actions are justified’”. In the article, they state that 68% of offenders are men. I have previously stated this statistic myself, expecting the data to be accurate. But this data is probably very much cherry-picked. If you click on “Get the data”, it literally just shows the two numbers. According to their citation, the data is from 2010–2018.

I decided to go hunt down the numbers myself. If you go to the original source, the Australian Government’s Institute of Criminology who collect data on homicides and so on, search for filicide, their latest report is from 2019 titled:

FILICIDE OFFENDERS

You can download the PDF. In the document, it clearly states in Table 1: Filicide offenders by gender, at the National level, 52% of offenders were male, and 48% were female. To be fair, this data is from the years 2000 to 2012, so it’s a little bit old. But one thing that is clear, is that these figures are a lot different from the ABC article blaming male perpetrators at 68%. Interestingly, the publishers of these figures make it look like the latest data by having 2024 in brackets, which is when they released their findings, but their findings are based on 2010 to 2018 data. It’s all very mischievous, if you ask me.

So in the name of honesty and openness, let’s try to hunt down the most recent figures. This is the Institute of Criminology’s National Homicide Monitoring Program. This is where all the data that is being published is coming from anyway. I’ve linked to this below, so you can double check all my figures if you want to. But obviously, I’ve got no interest in making any of this up. I just want to know, and to show you, the truth, which seems to be in short supply in recent years.

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY: NATIONAL HOMICIDE MONITORING PROGRAM

You can see all the published reports on homicide for the last 30 years or whatever. For example, clicking on the latest one, we can see they provide the Homicide Incident data since 1989. Table A8 is the one we’re interested in. For this presentation, we’re only interested in filicide. Also, because the media are only showing data up until 2018, we’ll only look at the data from 2018 onwards. Okay, so in the last five years of data, there were 61 cases of reported filicide. They don’t show us the gender breakdown in this file, but we can get that from each individual report.

In the last five years of data, 30 children were killed by their fathers, and 35 killed by their mothers. In percentage terms, that’s 46% to approximately 54%. That wasn’t hard, was it? One would think that using the latest data would be more relevant to society that using older data, don’t you think? Then why didn’t they include it in their 2024 research paper?

Look, as I said, I’m not here to demonise females, but instead of the Government and the media demonising males, why can’t they just say, “Killing your children is wrong no matter who you are.” Wouldn’t that be a fairer and less divisive way to put it?

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[Jcremo]

Just today a woman in falconbridge, NSW murdered her two sons (11 and 9) while attempting to end her own life. All the headlines read a version of “two boys found, dead/murdered while mother, airlifted to hospital/clinging to life.”
They should read “woman discovered with self inflicted wounds after murdering her two children.”
I’m sick of the soft language the media uses for women who snuff out the lives of their offspring.

[fantomghost]

Defund the ABC, and vote this government OUT!!!

[harleydavo]

This doesn’t even begin to address the first forty weeks of life

[luminosway]

Never let the truth get in the way of feminism

[jonking]

Well done, the rot is starting to become apparent in labor’s multi billion campaign to further ostracise men. Labor is doing a brilliant job at polarising the Australian community on so many levels.

[ACDZ]

Send the ABC a copy and ask them for a statement...wonder if they would reply?

[australiasindustrialage]

Well done in carrying out this research, I'm fed up with hearing the balony about how bad males are.

[Glider]

Mate thanks. I honestly would not have believed the misinformation could be this unjust and prejudiced.

[Stonezster]

There is more DV from mothers towards their own children. I've never seen a man do this to a woman and most blokes I know would step in if it did occur. So, where is this EPADEMIC of DV? So sick of the gaslighting!

[Peak_Aussieman]

The more this slander and defamation against men continues in Australia the more inauthentic and hollow the State apparatus appears to be. And this will of course be our absolute downfall. Have a pleasant day ya'll. Oodles!

[mickatlas]

I'm glad that people like you show us the true figures

[justinm]

That article is quite interesting.
It almost excuses, at least empathises with the mothers who kill their kids, citing mental health issues or 'I have to kill them to protect them.' Or 'she killed the kids because she couldn't see any other way out [of an abusive relationship]. Or 'He was granted custody and there was nothing else she could do.'

For the dads it's they wanted revenge. 'I want to hurt you' OR 'I've been victimised [I assume by the family court].

So the poor women are having mental issues and the men are simply bastards. Aren't they all bastards for killing their kids? If you're killing anyone, particularly kids, you have mental issues.

Reason and motives of course matter but do they matter that much? If they do and men's behaviour needs to change, which it does, then surely women's behaviour also needs to change, which it does. Why isn't there a Department of Offenders Behaviour Change? Why are women perps seen as a mental health issues and men perps need a government department?

The article ends with 'a multi-pronged approach was needed to address male violence, given they commit the vast majority of filicides.' because women commit the minority of filicides the same approach is not needed? Of course they are the majority of cases of kids below a certain age, but that's simple mental health.... something we've been trained as society to sympathise with.

Women kill their unborn babies = a choice.
Women kill their born babies = mental health
Men kill anything = bastards.
Get it. Got it. Good.

[dendennis]

Honestly, after watching my brother go through a divorce and getting screwed over, and having our family destroyed mentally and financially by his ex-wife and her female, feminist lawyer, (her friend), I'll be that guy who makes a controversial' blanket statement', 'feminism' has fukced over men, women, children and society.

[hariseldon]

The ratio varies by country and specific study, but estimates suggest that women are responsible for about 55-70% of all infanticides. Some research points to a ratio of approximately 2:1, with women committing two-thirds of infanticides and men one-third. Typically this occurs when the child is very young. To use the Left's own language, "This is probably due to an imbalance in the 'power dynamic". So, where you have an asymmetry in power, women can be just as murderous as men! Lets take that a bit further... what type of relationship would you guess has the highest rates of domestic abuse? The exact rates of domestic abuse in lesbian relationships vary depending on the study and methodology used however, lesbian couples experience higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) compared to heterosexual couples. For instance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that nearly 44% of lesbian women had experienced physical violence, stalking, or rape by an intimate partner at some point in their lives, compared to about 35% of heterosexual women. Not quite the narrative we are led to believe is it?

[jagreen]

Thanks daily insight, been watching for awhile, love your articulation in the argument... got a great format leaving bias out of it.

[homebrandrules]

your work is becoming more and more important, literally, you could be easily contributing TO SAVING MENS LIVES (FROM SELF DELETION) .
STRENGTH TO YOUR ARM, YOUR KEYBOARD, YOUR SKILLS AN YOUR MIND. MOTTO MOTTO YARE YARE

[rosa]

I worry about my grandsons when they’re dating.

[claytonbigbsy]

They must be talking about the Aboriginal community?

[bangazboom]

Domestic violence committed by females is a huge problem in Australia, but it’s never spoken about or just accepted as part of our everyday lives. Even over in Hollywood representations of domestic violence committed by women against men is either acceptable or treated as a joke. And the advertised support services for male victims appears non-existent here in Australia. Walk into your local police station and see posters representing women as victims but never men or children. The police will have phone numbers of support services to give you if you’re a woman, but not if you’re a man. I wonder if these politicians are using real data and when they say they want to change men’s behaviour, do they want men to speak up? Do they want them to demand support? Or do they want them to stay quiet and cop it?

[chriseldridge]

I watch every one of your videos and really appreciate your evidence based unbiased outcomes. I’m sure that like most other males, I’m getting sick and tired of the negative man bashing from these privileged females, whom I’m sure were the best candidate for their position 😂. It also highlights the absolute lack of old fashioned investigative journalism, which nowadays only ever follows the current narrative. How tragic!