Pepper spray, guns this is absolute madness from the CLP. Completely abandoning the public expectation of government providing policing and security for all territorians.
CLP won government because Labor did a poor job, they did not win on intelligence or merit as they are now proving.
The angel on Jim Jefferies' left shoulderon June 20, 2025 at 10:07 pm
‘“Embedding armed officers into everyday environments will only increase the risk of harm for Aboriginal people, people with disabilities, and those experiencing mental health issues or disadvantage,” said Change the Record CEO Jade Lane.’
~She/they know this Jane. It’s not a surprise to them but this is the kind of ‘community safety’ rubbish you come up with when you have no real idea how to even begin to think about how to fix things and you can’t be bothered to type/cut and paste into a search engine or AI bot: ‘what are the root causes of crime and how do we fix them?’
~However, it will also increase the risk of harm to anyone who finds themselves arguing with blue shirts or others who now will have a permanent stiffy because they’ve got a gun on their belt to wave around at people they don’t like, black, white, brown or whatever.
~Anyone who is annoying them, anyone who is mentally unwell and may be having an episode they can’t or won’t deal with or who is drunk, possibly argumentative and/or uncooperative in the moment.
~Y’all gonna get shot soon, in the line of duty.
~See if you get any independent investigations done then! Ha.
~We only have to look at the USA shooting death rate of mostly black people who come into contact with aggressive, agitated and trigger happy Police, to see the future.
‘The latest death in NT Police custody and the failure to independently investigate it has led to a lack of trust between several Territory Aboriginal organisations and the NT Police.’
~Wrong. That lack of trust has been around for way longer than the recent refusal to allow outside objective eyes to enquire into what went on.
‘“The government’s response is about appearing ‘tough on crime’ rather than being effective… And once again, the cost will be borne by those already doing it tough,” he said.
“If the government is serious about preventing harm and improving safety, it needs to start listening to communities, not criminalising them. To intervene earlier and address the root causes of violence and disadvantage, we need sustained investment in what works.”’
~Huge round of applause from this household. **3 clapping emojis**
~Sadly though no one in the CLP cares about any of that, as we can all see.
~We’ll leave you with these:
‘Ms Finocchiaro said on Friday, in a statement claiming crime was down over the last four months compared to last year, that she was unapologetic about her government’s tough on crime policies.’
~Of course this sounds like she is trying to take credit for a reduction in crime without going into any of the wide variety of reasons why that might be and also the fact that it may have nothing to do with who is in power at the time.
~But let’s run with her (warped) logic for a second…..
…if crime has dropped in the last 4 months and you’re taking credit for it, that it was your excellent policies and decision making that made it drop, then that means while there was no pepper spray in public hands and none of those frontline workers you claim to care about so much had any guns: crime still dropped without them.
~So, if you want crime to keep dropping, why add guns and pepper spray?
~Lastly:
~If you have a taser, you’ll justify to yourself using it when you don’t need to:
youtube [dot] com/watch?v=HOo8bRvwebQ
~If you have a gun, outside Uncle Sams at 4am and you think no one’s looking:
youtube [dot] com/watch?v=lJFUqajkrH8
Is it August 2028 yet? Hurry the f**k up will ya!
So we can vote this Crappy Little Party out of Government for good. Consigned to the same dumpster of disgrace that the ALP are in.
As usual, all criticism and no idea of what to do, crims are being punished even though you and the media love them, by the way are you just Chris having another crack.
As someone with both a sister who has an intellectual learning disability and a young son with autism, I am terrified of this plan to arm public housing and bus officers with firearms.
What happened to Kumanjayi White is not just a tragedy—it’s a warning. My sister can be aggressive and impulsive. She sometimes steals things and has outbursts. She is also a large, physically strong woman. I fear what could happen if she were confronted by an undertrained, overarmed officer with no real tools to de-escalate, only a weapon to fall back on.
My son, too, can have intense meltdowns that are frightening to witness—especially to someone who doesn’t understand autism. The idea that his behaviour could one day be interpreted as “threatening” by an armed officer is my worst nightmare.
We need public safety policies that are grounded in understanding, compassion, and evidence—not fear, punishment, or political theatre. Armed officers in everyday public spaces are not a solution to the Territory’s complex challenges. They are a recipe for more harm—especially to those who are already vulnerable.
The angel on Jim Jefferies' left shoulderon June 21, 2025 at 3:48 pm
Thank you Professor Boofby for your not researched at all comment.
You have really come a long way from your usual, badly researched one line comments.
Hubby says it’s lovely to see you can write comments, albeit still sticking with the tried and tested snappy one liner format, where not everything in the world of NT is Labor’s fault. **clapping emoji**. Keep it up!
Had you done any research you would have known (possibly) that your attempted straw man argument around ‘loving crims’ would be doomed to fail.
But then you’re not commenting here in order to have any deep discussion on…well, anything really but that’s OK. You do you.
As a gesture of goodwill, here are some helpful tips for you.
Unfortunately they will require some reading on your part.
We realise that you don’t like reading anything more than one sentence long but we’ll leave it here in case you can bring yourself to muddle through.
First: Go and read some of our previous comments on here.
Don’t just read the commenter name and think “Oh no, another Chris, I know what they’re going to say, I’m off to my fire up my witty one liner generator, that’ll show ‘em”.
Actually read them. You will find multiple mentions of ‘root causes of crime’ and more importantly ‘Justice Reinvestment’.
If you have any energy left after that arduous internet task, then soldier on to this article:
‘BUILDING COMMUNITIES, NOT PRISONS: JUSTICE REINVESTMENT AND INDIGENOUS OVER-IMPRISONMENT’
There are hundreds of resources online related to Justice Reinvestment, even an Australian network dedicated to this ‘radical’ idea if you care to try and educate yourself:
justicereinvestment [dot] net [dot] au
We think you’ll find that arming the public with pepper spray, arming Bus ‘police’ and Housing officers with guns is not mentioned in any of the literature. For a good reason.
But it fits right in with this Crappy Little Party’s lack of ideas, alongside criminalising children and deliberately overcrowding prisons in order to eventually privatise them.
It’s a Crappy Little Party full of Crappy Likeminded People.
They’re all too busy hosting Crappy Little Pantomimes so they can keep:
hiding information from the public, enriching their friends and families and blaming everything on everyone else,
instead of spending any time collaborating with experienced and knowledgeable people about how to solve complex and complicated social problems.
Here’s a serious one liner for you: Putting more dangerous and lethal weapons on the streets inevitably increases the risk of more death.
Crappy Little Party: we love more guns on the streets..…oh and on the busses….oh, *jumps around excitedly* and in the public housing system, yeeeeeee-ha.
Just in case you missed it Professor Boofby, here’s an example from a previous comment on 13 June 2025 on the continued CLP support of Andrew Kirkman, about “what to do”.
See if you can spot any ‘Justice Reinvestment’ words:
This whole arena needs a clear out. NT Politics needs a transformation.
It is grubby:
the mudslinging, the shit everywhere, the petty point scoring, the dark and dingy wilful blindness, the damp squibs routinely chucked around when completely out of policy ideas, the disastrous state of public safety and the degradation of our public dis-service.
Do we want to Transform this place or not?
If so, our only hope in our household’s opinion is to join and support the movement for Change For Better.
From the bottom up:
~Participatory Budgeting to empower local community decision making in spending their money better, ~BEING ALL IN ON JUSTICE REINVESTMENT, ~genuine Proportional Representation in voting, ~a free and open Freedom of Information system/process for keeping Government accountable, ~incentivised whistleblowing with the best whistleblowers given awards at an annual ceremony by the heads of depts they blew the whistle on, ~ICAC without any NT Government staff or their mates/acquaintances and Greg Shamahan’s recommendations for supporting NTG corruption to be immediately undone, ~actual consequences for mismanagement and bullying in the NT Public Service, ~extending the statute of limitations backwards so we catch all the Shirkmans of this Territory, ~external and independent investigations when obviously required, ~an Attorney General who is legally trained at the very least, ~Police fully supported in working together with communities of all colours instead of against them, ~lying Police officers sacked and prosecuted, ~all cases of nepotism punished and ended, ~all cases of cronyism punished and ended, ~all NT Boards and Committee appointments dissolved and re-assessed independently, ~future limits on how many you can be on, ~published monthly figures of all NT Government legal expenditure to assist in budgeting decisions and so we have a well informed public, ~educational best practices embraced not ignored, ~learning to be a fiscally responsible Government and to encourage public participation in that process, ~not criminalising children as much as we can, ~stopping the sale of pepper spray to the public (duh), ~having real independent Public Accounts Committee hearings not the pantomime we were forced to endure recently, ~fraud against Government properly investigated and prosecuted, ~a fully open and transparent lobbyist register with everything the public wants to know put in there.
….you get the gist we’re sure.
Change For Better Party.
Help us Transform The Territory by getting rid of this Crappy Little Party and their Crappy Littleminded People.
Good on the CLP!!! Your Damned if you do and damned if you dont!
If you do not catch Public Transport from/to the Casuarina Horrror Show Terminal or to/from the Palmerston Zombie Station, you dont get how dodgy it is to be a travelling customer or a paid employee at those terminals or be a bus driver transporting the zombies.
Can you imagine the abuse you get from the lovely customers and the abuse you get from the well remunerated Executives at DIPL??
Please walk down Priest Street in Ghetto Gray! Due to Housing Department managers abandoning their duties, Its a real attitude changer! Walk Around Gray and count how many Housing units are covered in Beer cans!
Please walk in Progress Drive Housing Units in Nightcliff! Hint go near the unfinished building side of the complex. Please count the passed out drunks! Let me know if Housing Security vehicles actually stop and get out of the car!
Please dont walk anywhere in Moulden at night, with or without a gun! You wont survive!
Well Done wet-behind-the-ears Housing Acting CEO-in-training Amelia Vella! Sterling job, hopefully your mate can get you another CEO job elsewhere soon!
Pepper spray, guns this is absolute madness from the CLP. Completely abandoning the public expectation of government providing policing and security for all territorians.
CLP won government because Labor did a poor job, they did not win on intelligence or merit as they are now proving.
‘“Embedding armed officers into everyday environments will only increase the risk of harm for Aboriginal people, people with disabilities, and those experiencing mental health issues or disadvantage,” said Change the Record CEO Jade Lane.’
~She/they know this Jane. It’s not a surprise to them but this is the kind of ‘community safety’ rubbish you come up with when you have no real idea how to even begin to think about how to fix things and you can’t be bothered to type/cut and paste into a search engine or AI bot: ‘what are the root causes of crime and how do we fix them?’
~However, it will also increase the risk of harm to anyone who finds themselves arguing with blue shirts or others who now will have a permanent stiffy because they’ve got a gun on their belt to wave around at people they don’t like, black, white, brown or whatever.
~Anyone who is annoying them, anyone who is mentally unwell and may be having an episode they can’t or won’t deal with or who is drunk, possibly argumentative and/or uncooperative in the moment.
~Y’all gonna get shot soon, in the line of duty.
~See if you get any independent investigations done then! Ha.
~We only have to look at the USA shooting death rate of mostly black people who come into contact with aggressive, agitated and trigger happy Police, to see the future.
‘The latest death in NT Police custody and the failure to independently investigate it has led to a lack of trust between several Territory Aboriginal organisations and the NT Police.’
~Wrong. That lack of trust has been around for way longer than the recent refusal to allow outside objective eyes to enquire into what went on.
‘“The government’s response is about appearing ‘tough on crime’ rather than being effective… And once again, the cost will be borne by those already doing it tough,” he said.
“If the government is serious about preventing harm and improving safety, it needs to start listening to communities, not criminalising them. To intervene earlier and address the root causes of violence and disadvantage, we need sustained investment in what works.”’
~Huge round of applause from this household. **3 clapping emojis**
~Sadly though no one in the CLP cares about any of that, as we can all see.
~We’ll leave you with these:
‘Ms Finocchiaro said on Friday, in a statement claiming crime was down over the last four months compared to last year, that she was unapologetic about her government’s tough on crime policies.’
~Of course this sounds like she is trying to take credit for a reduction in crime without going into any of the wide variety of reasons why that might be and also the fact that it may have nothing to do with who is in power at the time.
~But let’s run with her (warped) logic for a second…..
…if crime has dropped in the last 4 months and you’re taking credit for it, that it was your excellent policies and decision making that made it drop, then that means while there was no pepper spray in public hands and none of those frontline workers you claim to care about so much had any guns: crime still dropped without them.
~So, if you want crime to keep dropping, why add guns and pepper spray?
~Lastly:
~If you have a taser, you’ll justify to yourself using it when you don’t need to:
youtube [dot] com/watch?v=HOo8bRvwebQ
~If you have a gun, outside Uncle Sams at 4am and you think no one’s looking:
youtube [dot] com/watch?v=lJFUqajkrH8
Is it August 2028 yet? Hurry the f**k up will ya!
So we can vote this Crappy Little Party out of Government for good. Consigned to the same dumpster of disgrace that the ALP are in.
As usual, all criticism and no idea of what to do, crims are being punished even though you and the media love them, by the way are you just Chris having another crack.
As someone with both a sister who has an intellectual learning disability and a young son with autism, I am terrified of this plan to arm public housing and bus officers with firearms.
What happened to Kumanjayi White is not just a tragedy—it’s a warning. My sister can be aggressive and impulsive. She sometimes steals things and has outbursts. She is also a large, physically strong woman. I fear what could happen if she were confronted by an undertrained, overarmed officer with no real tools to de-escalate, only a weapon to fall back on.
My son, too, can have intense meltdowns that are frightening to witness—especially to someone who doesn’t understand autism. The idea that his behaviour could one day be interpreted as “threatening” by an armed officer is my worst nightmare.
We need public safety policies that are grounded in understanding, compassion, and evidence—not fear, punishment, or political theatre. Armed officers in everyday public spaces are not a solution to the Territory’s complex challenges. They are a recipe for more harm—especially to those who are already vulnerable.
Thank you Professor Boofby for your not researched at all comment.
You have really come a long way from your usual, badly researched one line comments.
Hubby says it’s lovely to see you can write comments, albeit still sticking with the tried and tested snappy one liner format, where not everything in the world of NT is Labor’s fault. **clapping emoji**. Keep it up!
Had you done any research you would have known (possibly) that your attempted straw man argument around ‘loving crims’ would be doomed to fail.
But then you’re not commenting here in order to have any deep discussion on…well, anything really but that’s OK. You do you.
As a gesture of goodwill, here are some helpful tips for you.
Unfortunately they will require some reading on your part.
We realise that you don’t like reading anything more than one sentence long but we’ll leave it here in case you can bring yourself to muddle through.
First: Go and read some of our previous comments on here.
Don’t just read the commenter name and think “Oh no, another Chris, I know what they’re going to say, I’m off to my fire up my witty one liner generator, that’ll show ‘em”.
Actually read them. You will find multiple mentions of ‘root causes of crime’ and more importantly ‘Justice Reinvestment’.
If you have any energy left after that arduous internet task, then soldier on to this article:
‘BUILDING COMMUNITIES, NOT PRISONS: JUSTICE REINVESTMENT AND INDIGENOUS OVER-IMPRISONMENT’
https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AILRev/2010/1.pdf
There are hundreds of resources online related to Justice Reinvestment, even an Australian network dedicated to this ‘radical’ idea if you care to try and educate yourself:
justicereinvestment [dot] net [dot] au
We think you’ll find that arming the public with pepper spray, arming Bus ‘police’ and Housing officers with guns is not mentioned in any of the literature. For a good reason.
But it fits right in with this Crappy Little Party’s lack of ideas, alongside criminalising children and deliberately overcrowding prisons in order to eventually privatise them.
It’s a Crappy Little Party full of Crappy Likeminded People.
They’re all too busy hosting Crappy Little Pantomimes so they can keep:
hiding information from the public,
enriching their friends and families and
blaming everything on everyone else,
instead of spending any time collaborating with experienced and knowledgeable people about how to solve complex and complicated social problems.
Here’s a serious one liner for you: Putting more dangerous and lethal weapons on the streets inevitably increases the risk of more death.
Crappy Little Party: we love more guns on the streets..…oh and on the busses….oh, *jumps around excitedly* and in the public housing system, yeeeeeee-ha.
Just in case you missed it Professor Boofby, here’s an example from a previous comment on 13 June 2025 on the continued CLP support of Andrew Kirkman, about “what to do”.
See if you can spot any ‘Justice Reinvestment’ words:
This whole arena needs a clear out. NT Politics needs a transformation.
It is grubby:
the mudslinging,
the shit everywhere,
the petty point scoring,
the dark and dingy wilful blindness,
the damp squibs routinely chucked around when completely out of policy ideas,
the disastrous state of public safety and
the degradation of our public dis-service.
Do we want to Transform this place or not?
If so, our only hope in our household’s opinion is to join and support the movement for Change For Better.
From the bottom up:
~Participatory Budgeting to empower local community decision making in spending their money better,
~BEING ALL IN ON JUSTICE REINVESTMENT,
~genuine Proportional Representation in voting,
~a free and open Freedom of Information system/process for keeping Government accountable,
~incentivised whistleblowing with the best whistleblowers given awards at an annual ceremony by the heads of depts they blew the whistle on,
~ICAC without any NT Government staff or their mates/acquaintances and Greg Shamahan’s recommendations for supporting NTG corruption to be immediately undone,
~actual consequences for mismanagement and bullying in the NT Public Service,
~extending the statute of limitations backwards so we catch all the Shirkmans of this Territory,
~external and independent investigations when obviously required,
~an Attorney General who is legally trained at the very least,
~Police fully supported in working together with communities of all colours instead of against them,
~lying Police officers sacked and prosecuted,
~all cases of nepotism punished and ended,
~all cases of cronyism punished and ended,
~all NT Boards and Committee appointments dissolved and re-assessed independently,
~future limits on how many you can be on,
~published monthly figures of all NT Government legal expenditure to assist in budgeting decisions and so we have a well informed public,
~educational best practices embraced not ignored,
~learning to be a fiscally responsible Government and to encourage public participation in that process,
~not criminalising children as much as we can,
~stopping the sale of pepper spray to the public (duh),
~having real independent Public Accounts Committee hearings not the pantomime we were forced to endure recently,
~fraud against Government properly investigated and prosecuted,
~a fully open and transparent lobbyist register with everything the public wants to know put in there.
….you get the gist we’re sure.
Change For Better Party.
Help us Transform The Territory by getting rid of this Crappy Little Party and their Crappy Littleminded People.
Good on the CLP!!! Your Damned if you do and damned if you dont!
If you do not catch Public Transport from/to the Casuarina Horrror Show Terminal or to/from the Palmerston Zombie Station, you dont get how dodgy it is to be a travelling customer or a paid employee at those terminals or be a bus driver transporting the zombies.
Can you imagine the abuse you get from the lovely customers and the abuse you get from the well remunerated Executives at DIPL??
Please walk down Priest Street in Ghetto Gray! Due to Housing Department managers abandoning their duties, Its a real attitude changer! Walk Around Gray and count how many Housing units are covered in Beer cans!
Please walk in Progress Drive Housing Units in Nightcliff! Hint go near the unfinished building side of the complex. Please count the passed out drunks! Let me know if Housing Security vehicles actually stop and get out of the car!
Please dont walk anywhere in Moulden at night, with or without a gun! You wont survive!
Well Done wet-behind-the-ears Housing Acting CEO-in-training Amelia Vella! Sterling job, hopefully your mate can get you another CEO job elsewhere soon!