Self-professed “journalist” and Telegraph opinionator Joe Hildebrand has found himself on the receiving end of a fiery rebuke from domestic violence survivor Rosie Batty on Channel Ten’s following a fiery exchange on Channel Ten’s Studio 10.
Ms Batty, whose son Luke was killed by his father at a Tyabb cricket field in February, slammed Hildebrand on Channel Ten’s Breakfast TV show on Wednesday after a discussion of proposed Victorian child abuse reporting laws.
The 11-year-old was killed by his father, Greg Anderson, after a cricket match in Melbourne in February. Anderson was then shot dead by police.
During the discussion, Hildebrand asserted that there was no excuse for not reporting child abuse and that family violence victims needed to be empowered to leave their partners.
Ms Batty was preparing to appear on the show and was listening through her headpiece when she heard the panel discussing the laws.
She said she was “horrified” by the views of the panel and in particular Joe Hildebrand’s ignorance of the issues surrounding domestic violence.
“Can you imagine me, having my child murdered, and them (talking about domestic violence) like that?
“If Luke hadn’t been murdered, I would possibly have to face going in front of a jury to see whether I should be put in prison for three years because my child experienced abuse.”
An enraged Batty addressed Hildebrand directly and said: “Do you know what happened to me? Greg had finally lost control of me and the final act of control, which was the most hideous form of violence, was to kill my son.
So don’t you ever think that if we don’t report it’s because we don’t want to. It’s because we are so scared about what might happen.”
Ms Batty blasted Hildebrand for his “misguided” comments about law changes which could make it a crime not to disclose a case of child abuse.
“I’m just horrified. I’m just absolutely horrified to hear this garbage. I don’t know whether I should say garbage. I’m just horrified,” she said after the on-air outburst.
“I thought with Luke’s death something would come out of this that would actually show the difficulty women have in abusive relationships.”
During the panel discussion, Hildebrand had said: “Obviously you can’t help but feel a huge amount of sympathy for anyone who’s in an abusive relationship but … you have to get out, you absolutely have to get out.
Today however, Hildebrand said that he stood by his view that partners should leave abusive relationships and that saying so was not “blaming the victim”.
“It is the role of every adult who is aware of children being sexually abused to blow the whistle on it; it is their job to raise the alarm,” he said.
Channel Ten executives were taken aback by the level of public outrage over Hildebrand’s comments and were forced to contend with a problem they’ve never encountered before; having an audience.
It’s kind of what he said, after being pulled back a lot. But even then, it only looked like him backing away from his initial statement, which was blaming victims, and he didn’t sound very convinced, it was like he just wanted it all to stop. Poor victim.
As to the measure of how much of a Total Fuckwit he is, he’s not up to the bolt or akers league yet, but given time, the skies the limit
“Channel Ten executives were taken aback by the level of public outrage over Hildebrand’s comments and were forced to contend with a problem they’ve never encountered before; having an audience.”
Children should be protected from further abuse. But…and it’s a big but, it’s just not that easy, the women who leave must have serious protection, that is where it falls down.
It’s taken this long for police to even be serious about prosecuting DV. The women might leave but they are completely alone with a piece of paper [court order] supposedly to protect them. These men do not care about that and will hunt them down, it’s their life’s mission to traumatise their own family. Maybe it’s the men who should be taken away from society? These women already know what the partner is capable of and the fear of what will happen if they leave, keeps them in line and in the home, to protect their children.
In theory this shit dont happen but it does… I don’t understand it, this deadshit has one mode…insensitive knob. This is an excellent example of the consequences of such stupidity.
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after repeated applications for a 457 visa from the young hildebrand fellow to my ABC, joe has, at first look, successfully received asylum at network-10 from the Limited-News monster,
but as we can see, this has not meant young hildebrand was able to shake-off the Limited-News mentality, which will be deeply ingrained in young hildebrand, dog help him, and no amount of hanging-out with `ita` will help,
the so-called `journalism` that will be practiced on his `show` will be much along the lines of Limited-News standard clap-trap, and while l haven`t checked, l strongly suspect by the advertising, that young hildebrands `show` is a Limited-News production, just like boltreportland,
It took me 23 years to get my mother to leave my father … and just eight weeks for my sister (seven years my junior) to talk her into going back to him …
… a few weeks later when I got the phone call from Mum that he’d done it again (I lived a two minute drive away) …
… I got there to find my mother cowering in a corner, covered in blood, there was food and smashed crockery all over the kitchen and my old man calmly drinking another beer … I kicked him off the chair, picked him up and held him against the wall with my forearm against his neck … I promised to kill him if he touched my Mum again … he never did …
unfortunately that is the only way to deal with `some`people(usually-cowards) TB, and the system, to which hildebrand clings, fails victims all the time, when l was a kid, there was a wife-beater down the street, when the wife and kids were screaming in the middle of the night, the cops were called by the neighbors, but they couldn`t do `anything`/`much` back in those days, this happened two or three times,
what finally stopped the basher was the neighbors(few solid fellows with tyre irons and cricket bats) grabbing the basher when he came home one evening, `promising` along the same lines as you did,
yep, it worked, for the remaining years in the street, no more battered kids and wife, and the neighbors kept an eye out for`em too,
as l have said before, the `retribution` factor is missing, those that haven`t had to `sort`out thugs before, just don`t have a grip on the reality of these situations
What annoyed me is how he was so “charming” to family and friends … and they never seemed to “suspect” … I find that baffling still …
This fuckwit Hilderbrand can never understand the insensitive stupidity of his comments and the effect on others. Like Bolt he is a pathological, adversarial narcissist, devoid of empathy antagonistically motivated by ego rather than any cause of greater good.
Don’t misunderstand, RP, I’m having a wonderful life and have a wonderful family and some really close friends … not many but open and honest …
I wonder if they’ll have any luck producing Obama’s birth certificate or proving jesus was a white man.
Well he was a semite, so probably not black. He was also male, privileged (lord), rich (kingdom of heaven), and middle-aged (30 was middle-aged back then).
So he was a rich, privileged, middle-aged, white man, therefore responsible for everything that’s wrong with the world. 😉
“Well he was a semite, so probably not black. He was also male, privileged (lord), rich (kingdom of heaven), and middle-aged (30 was middle-aged back then). ”
The one you attempt to define with absolutes was derived from 2nd hand (at best) anecdotal mutterings from vested interests over 2000years ago; hardly reliable sources.
As for the whole ‘kingdom of heaven’ tripe, well anyone could make up such shit about themselves & no one could prove otherwise (given the same standards of proof expected by religion).
Oral history has some credibility and the semite in question was probably over-endowed with religious genes.
Obviously I knew his defense of foxtard news was semi sarcastic. My response should be read as similar sentiment.
But yeah, Haha, I’m just another ‘earnestly religious atheist’, you really got me there. I’ve never heard that one before. Not believing in myth is such a religion, yeah.
the incan dogs, the viking dogs, greek dogs, egyptian dogs, roman dogs, most people are actually atheists, and don`t believe in any of those dogs,
If you knew 20% of what Joe does I would deem you intelligent and Andrew Bolt knows more than Joe. Which one of you idiots is on TV ???
Not me; I only play an idiot on TV, so self-rated-intelligent people don’t realise they’re just admass consumer products, whose natively-uncritical minds and hand-cultivated susceptibilities to biases-reinforcements I on-sell to advertisers, corporate media shareholders, and select political operatives for a modest fee.
Correct. Joe lacks the credentials of `blog-sanitization` to ever really make it `big-time` in the convicted racist stakes.
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Just the other day he was banging on about himself (i know, how unusual!), about how he was worried he’d be in a car accident, and found dead (on this particular day) smelling of kfc and covered in soda, and “that’s what I’d be remembered for, rather than for ALL MY GREAT WORKS”. Sadly I’m not making this up. That was a direct quote.
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There were some who thought the retirement of Nico Rosberg might calm Lewis Hamilton down somewhat, yet before a wheel is turned in anger the bi-polar like nature of Lewis Hamilton’s pronouncements is clearly set to continue – with or without his nemesis.
Less than two weeks ago, Hamilton caused a media stir when he revealed he’s asked Mercedes AMG F1 not to share data amongst the drivers this year.
“I go out, do my laps, do all my homework, [and] the other guy can see everything,” said Hamilton. “I have asked my team. I don’t want to see my team mate’s”.
Clearly this was not a unilateral offer of generosity by Hamilton to his new team mate Valterri Bottas because Lewis continued his lament the advantage being given to his team mate in greater detail.
“But because of this data [sharing] they can just copy you. ‘Oh he’s braking five metres later there, I’ll go out and I’ll try braking five metres later’.
Ironically there has been an impression spread abroad by those who have worked with Lewis at both Mercedes and McLaren that it is he who benefits more from the sharing of data amongst team mates. Rosberg was often categorised as the ‘cerebral’ one of the Mercedes pairing – with Lewis more akin to one who drives by the seat of their pants.
This suggestion by Hamilton that Mercedes should no longer share data in the garage was dismissed quickly by Toto Wolff. And in the modern world of F1 this course of action would be unthinkable.
Following the 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix antics of Hamilton, Toto Wolff felt is necessary to publically criticise the Brit’s attitude and behaviour. “Undermining a structure in public means you are putting yourself before the team,” he said. “It is very simple, anarchy does not work in any team and in any company.
It may be Lewis has again had his ear tweaked by Wolff, following his suggestion that Mercedes team mates should no longer share data, because speaking to F1.com Lewis now has this to say about Bottas.
“I feel we already have a better working relationship than I ever had with any teammate I had before.
“He wants to do the best thing that he can in his first year with the team – and with me being here for quite a while now, I want to deliver and make sure that I give as much information so that he will learn”.
This will be surely the first of many more flip flops from Hamilton this season, who appears to swing between a mind-set of persecution when he feels the world is against him – and one of pure joy when all things are going his way.
This sounds a bit rich coming from someone who benefitted immensely from Alonso’s set up data when he was at McLaren. I think that this is just part of the ‘Teammate Mind Games’ that he likes to play.
What a load of biased journalism. When did this fellow display any bipolar behaviour. He is a racing driver for heavens sake and they all express competitiveness and take any and every advantage they can get over their rivals. To imply he has a bipolar personality is going too far. Your criticism is akin to character assassination which singles out Hamilton and it’s totally unwarranted. Considering all drivers have a chip on their shoulders.
Hamilton has always had a bipolar aspect to him more so than other drivers on the grid. It is for this transparency that I actually admire him.
I think the word bipolar referred simply to the fact the he has completely changed his tune on this as opposed to any more serious connotations. He did state, in the first instance, that he wasn’t happy with the sharing of data among teammates and felt that others could gain an advantage from seeing his data. He has now said that he is happy to share as much data as possible in order the Valtteri gets up to speed and out the blocks as quickly as possible. It is a complete U-turn that will most likely have been fuelled by the media boom about it and the teams stance on the subject. It isn’t necessarily biased against Lewis as he is known to say things that may be seen as controversial, before back peddling on them to limit the impact. Whether this is down to his impulsive nature, or to get column inches, only Lewis really knows.
The author should start by declaring that he does not like Lewis, which is his right, instead writting what is supposed to be an objective article and it’s far from that and bereft of any credible supporting evidence.
Best is ignore him, he need to be in the spot and the worse for him is don’t be the pole of attention, excelent driver!! no doubt, child mentality, depriment.
As Lewis stated in his comments (before they were laid out here in a lame/biased fashion), it would be better for the sport and the drivers if setup configuration could be shared, but not drivers driving style. He’s built his career on late braking, someone learning that they can copy his line/late breaking to benefit themselves isn’t necessary. These are the best drivers in the world, make them learn to drive the fastest by driving, not copying someone else’s driving.
And as Lewis stated, he thought it would be best for the sport and wasn’t asking his team, he was making statement in general regarding F1 as a whole. That it would be better for everyone.
Amazing how context gives you perspective. Hamilton’s actual comments with the question that was asked of him 🙂
Q: The highs and lows of your relationship with Nico Rosberg were well documented and the media loved to portray you in contrasting roles. Now you have a man of few words in the garage next to you – does that mean you alone will have to provide the off-track entertainment?
LH: Ha! But I have learned that he makes his own entertainment. He is very witty and comes out with some very funny things – which you would not really expect from a Finn! (Laughs) What I so far like about working with Valtteri is that it is all to do with the track – what we do on the circuit – and not outside. There are no games – there is complete transparency. I like that. I feel we already have a better working relationship than I ever had with any team mate I had before. He wants to do the best thing that he can in his first year with the team – and with me being here for quite a while now, I want to deliver and make sure that I give as much information so that he will learn. And we do our talking on the track!
This is the most biased, bigoted, ignorant, and racist anti Lewis article have seen in a long time. For argument sake let’s pretend the article is true, which I don’t believe it is. Why would Lewis make such a statement if he benefits more from it. Let’s start with Maclaren, Lewis left in 2012, what happened to Maclaren in 2013. What happened to the race winning car that won the 2012 Brazilian Gp. When Alonso refused to share data after Monaco, it didn’t slow Lewis down if anything it made him faster. In the end it was Alonso who asked to share Lewis data for the Belgium gp. Mercedes started winning races in 2013 when Lewis joined. Infact they won three races that year. According to Nicky Lauder, Lewis brought 3/10th to the team.
Please explain me where there is racism in this article? People should stop using that term like it’s nothing. Not only does it weaken the word, but it makes the user of it seem weak.
I see some people are still vomiting forth that old chestnut… ah but Jenson beat Lewis over the course of three years… And which three year long competition was that then? Usual pathetic rubbish.
Yeah lets. To start with it’s McLaren not MacLaren. And do you remember Dennis saying in China , ” We weren’t racing Kimi, we were basically racing Fernando.Kimi winning and Lewis coming second was adequate. It just didn’t quite work out that way. – Pretty clear which Dennis preferred.
Racist?! There is nothing in this article that mentions or illudes in anyway to any racial opinion and to suggest that that has driven the writing of the article is completely out of order and, frankly, trolling for the sake of it. That is a big accusation and you would do well to keep that in perspective
If u like go carting just quit f1 and go buy a track and u came go in circle like the pathetic loser u are
Hamilton is a freaking moron. Track data is not always translated from car to car or driver to driver.
He is a douche canoe that does not understand the concept of team and teamwork. You should do yourself a favor and retire and take up long-distance running. He can do that all by himself.
I would say that it’s impossible to have won 3 WDC’s without understanding the concepts of team/teamwork.
PS. ‘douche canoe’ isn’t really working for me as an insult… although as a brain grenade it is pretty effective.
LH can be helpful as he has always been Butler clearly he has been adopting his tactics where possible to keep his breaking advantage up his sleeve especially during qualifying.
The writer instead of writing an intelligent piece ends up with a weak article asserting something about LH which maybe going on only in the writer’s head.
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Thanks! They do nice kits…but it’s hard to figure out the correct pronunciation….glad they are still around….I wasn’t trying to be funny…but if it was…..thats OK too….
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The Hobbit in Southampton: my favourite pub during my time at the University at Winchester, and a source of annoyance in my life for the past few months (through no fault of their own). Before I elaborate further, I must first explain my choice for the big lighter, one that would be found in a home. The reason is, as you would expect from a man with the nickname ‘Mutler’, because I found that normal lighters are too small, only suitable for the Halflings after which the pub is named. I am Man, so I went with a lighter that would suit my height (I know what you’re thinking: that was a Lord of the Ring joke, and it was terrible). I picked blue to match my favourite drink at the Hobbit, the Fili.
The reasons that The Hobbit is my favourite pub in Southampton, possibly Hampshire and beyond, are numerous. Firstly, they have a pretty amazing dedication to Tolkien. Their cocktails are fantastic and there’s a ‘drink-them-all’ challenge with each one named after a Lord of the Rings/Hobbit character. There’s also an alternative juke box – playing metal, rock and popular songs. You can probably see now why it fits me so well.
Their cocktail challenge is really cool and should be right up your street if you have the stomach for sweetness. Named the Fellowship Quest, the objective is to complete all twelve drinks. After each drink is bought, you get a stamp on a little card given to you, which has all the names of the cocktails on it (such as Fili, Gimli, Gandalf, Aragorn, etc.). Your reward? A Hobbit T-shirt. Of course, you could just buy it from the bar, but where’s the fun in that? I’d recommend completing this challenge on a Wednesday or a Sunday (known as a Fellowship Night) when cocktails are £2.50 each.
The pub has also got a booth for hot food at the back that is open on some days. It is difficult to tell what day it will be open on, but my guess is on a Wednesday and/or Sunday to match the Fellowship Nights, when it is most busy with students. If drinking isn’t up for you they have different days dedicated to different things. For instance, Monday is live acoustic night and Tuesday is for those with a passion for Magic: The Gathering, the card game.
On the subject of music, The Hobbit is also an opportunity for up-and-coming bands to show off their material by sending them a demo. This is partly the reason for my source of annoyance. Members of my band, including me, have struggled to find time to finish recording so I can submit my music. I have also been unable, for the past few months, to find the time and money to visit The Hobbit one last time. It’s difficult when all of your close friends are busy.
If The Hobbit closes down within the next five years I will be deeply upset. Not only is it a great pub, it is a great place for meeting and socialising, and a must-visit for fans of the Lord of the Rings. I sincerely hope my band, Before This Silence, will play there soon.
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It’s been quite a while. I wasn’t sure if I was going to fold with this blog altogether. There were days where I felt that way.
Then, we learned my youngest had a developmental delay and communication issues. He was enrolled to a full day autism program, and that took a toll on the whole blogging thing.
Still not full organized with life, but I do what I can. There is always something to do, something to worry about, but that’s the mom life, right?
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