The angel on Jim Jefferies' left shoulderon April 30, 2025 at 7:58 pm
Ms Finocchiaro said the reforms would finally place “community safety at the heart of our bail system”, but it was still unexplained why the reforms weren’t introduced before Mr Feick was killed.
~Another empty political soundbite. Apologies to the Feick family, honestly, but our CM is using your pain to score political points for herself in a time of crisis, in our opinion.
“The new laws will ensure the Northern Territory has the strongest bail laws in Australia,” she said.
“Today we sent a clear message – community safety comes first. Our government will never shy away from doing what’s necessary to protect Territorians.
“We have acted urgently and decisively because lives depend on it.”
~**vomit emoji**
~What a heap of horseshit. You should be ashamed of yourself for spewing out this kind of empty rhetoric/media cycle jingoism. It’s all about you you you. Sickening.
~If your bail decisions by judges remain discretionary then what happens when the next judge, like the one who let this alleged murderer out on bail for, what was it, a serious alleged sexual assault (? ) chooses to let the one after him out and who then does a similar thing?
~Is it back to sending the hapless, incoherent, ventriloquist dummy Attorney-General back to “plead with the judges” who’ll take one look at her and her background and experience in law (none) and simply send her out to get cakes and cappuccinos?
~And as the article asked: why didn’t community safety come first before this, if you’re saying that this new bail tightening puts community safety first? Was it second or third before?
The government said it was working to increase capacity in corrections as “quickly as possible”.
~No it isn’t. They want more deliberate dysfunction, so that more privatisation is on the way.
Yingiya Guyula: “If we do not address the underlying issues of crime, this method of locking people up in overcrowded cells with no genuine rehabilitation, will only make our communities less safe as people become hardened criminals. This is what we are seeing now.”
~100% agree, Yingiya is one of the few people to speak any sense. ALWAYS. Thankyou.
Kat McNamara: “There is endless evidence that the more children are locked up under punitive measures without rehabilitation, that just increases the likelihood they will reoffend,” she said.
~Again, in a reasonable world this would be common knowledge. The CLP don’t care about that well respected evidence because dysfunction is their game. Their mates don’t get richer if everything is fixed; quite the opposite in fact.
~Eg. Maley triumphantly announcing that he’ll build 5000 new beds to house offenders/alleged offenders.
~Maley is completely clueless. Not one word or sentence to suggest that his New Bedtropolis will do anything at all to address the underlying problems causing crime and particularly, serious crime from young people who clearly see they have no future already or no other options in the current societal environment.
~Stick to tinkering with ute engines and fishing in the creek Gerard, please. The most damage you can do there is to a few gills. What you’ll do here with your lack of knowledge is only going to create more and more potential criminals who also have, in their minds, no hope, no future and nothing to lose anymore. That’s negligent in our opinion.
~As the knife crime epidemic increases to shocking new levels, we would do well to follow the advice written in the following article. Forget the stories about the author, digest his words and ideas instead, he makes more sense than any of the CLP Muppet Show currently using the tired: ‘Too Late But Still Tough On Crime’ point scoring which has no evidentiary basis on which to rely on:
~We could do with some of Mark’s wisdom right now.
~PS: much as we love your comments in this sitting, random Independents are never properly going to hold Government to account nor be able to stop them implementing not-thought out legislation or policies based on a whim rather than evidence. You’ll just continue to be voices in the wind. Enthusiastic but ephemeral.
~We have to start working on changing the system otherwise this kind of dangerous Political Theatre and their bad actors will run on repeat forever and nothing decent will ever get done.
~Again, from one large family to another: our sincere condolences to the Feick family.
Why is Wickman Point not opened up as a boot boot camp to give dignity to offenders with good old fashioned hard work, healthy living and quality rehabilitation with dignity and respect and tough love and where is the training and sentenced to a job program for offenders?
Where are all the other boot camps that should be in place throughout the Northern Territory to provide dignity and respect and tough love and training and sentenced to a job program for offenders?
Lucio, the Americanised military discipline objectives of Boot Camps do not achieve Offenders rehabilitation. What does work . . . are small groups, twelve to fourteen personnel on a ratio of one worker to two offenders. Challenging and enjoying. Constant adjusting and enjoying the benefits of new experiences, disciplines, behaviours that benefit group first, and self later. Group discipline and enjoyment prioritised. “Self” does not work! Small mobile camps demand constant exposure. Multiple, daily adjustment, expectation, challenges. The Brotherhood of St Laurence, Fitzroy, Melbourne. Spent over twenty years developing Mobile Camping across Australia. Both remote and urban developmental.
Ms Finocchiaro said the reforms would finally place “community safety at the heart of our bail system”, but it was still unexplained why the reforms weren’t introduced before Mr Feick was killed.
~Another empty political soundbite. Apologies to the Feick family, honestly, but our CM is using your pain to score political points for herself in a time of crisis, in our opinion.
“The new laws will ensure the Northern Territory has the strongest bail laws in Australia,” she said.
“Today we sent a clear message – community safety comes first.
Our government will never shy away from doing what’s necessary to protect Territorians.
“We have acted urgently and decisively because lives depend on it.”
~**vomit emoji**
~What a heap of horseshit. You should be ashamed of yourself for spewing out this kind of empty rhetoric/media cycle jingoism. It’s all about you you you. Sickening.
~If your bail decisions by judges remain discretionary then what happens when the next judge, like the one who let this alleged murderer out on bail for, what was it, a serious alleged sexual assault (? ) chooses to let the one after him out and who then does a similar thing?
~Is it back to sending the hapless, incoherent, ventriloquist dummy Attorney-General back to “plead with the judges” who’ll take one look at her and her background and experience in law (none) and simply send her out to get cakes and cappuccinos?
~And as the article asked: why didn’t community safety come first before this, if you’re saying that this new bail tightening puts community safety first? Was it second or third before?
The government said it was working to increase capacity in corrections as “quickly as possible”.
~No it isn’t. They want more deliberate dysfunction, so that more privatisation is on the way.
Yingiya Guyula: “If we do not address the underlying issues of crime, this method of locking people up in overcrowded cells with no genuine rehabilitation, will only make our communities less safe as people become hardened criminals. This is what we are seeing now.”
~100% agree, Yingiya is one of the few people to speak any sense. ALWAYS. Thankyou.
Kat McNamara: “There is endless evidence that the more children are locked up under punitive measures without rehabilitation, that just increases the likelihood they will reoffend,” she said.
~Again, in a reasonable world this would be common knowledge. The CLP don’t care about that well respected evidence because dysfunction is their game. Their mates don’t get richer if everything is fixed; quite the opposite in fact.
~Eg. Maley triumphantly announcing that he’ll build 5000 new beds to house offenders/alleged offenders.
~Maley is completely clueless. Not one word or sentence to suggest that his New Bedtropolis will do anything at all to address the underlying problems causing crime and particularly, serious crime from young people who clearly see they have no future already or no other options in the current societal environment.
~Stick to tinkering with ute engines and fishing in the creek Gerard, please. The most damage you can do there is to a few gills. What you’ll do here with your lack of knowledge is only going to create more and more potential criminals who also have, in their minds, no hope, no future and nothing to lose anymore. That’s negligent in our opinion.
~As the knife crime epidemic increases to shocking new levels, we would do well to follow the advice written in the following article. Forget the stories about the author, digest his words and ideas instead, he makes more sense than any of the CLP Muppet Show currently using the tired: ‘Too Late But Still Tough On Crime’ point scoring which has no evidentiary basis on which to rely on:
https://ntindependent.com.au/opinion-we-need-to-adopt-the-glaswegian-public-health-model-for-dealing-with-knife-crime/
~We could do with some of Mark’s wisdom right now.
~PS: much as we love your comments in this sitting, random Independents are never properly going to hold Government to account nor be able to stop them implementing not-thought out legislation or policies based on a whim rather than evidence. You’ll just continue to be voices in the wind. Enthusiastic but ephemeral.
~We have to start working on changing the system otherwise this kind of dangerous Political Theatre and their bad actors will run on repeat forever and nothing decent will ever get done.
~Again, from one large family to another: our sincere condolences to the Feick family.
The Sentencing Act is far more important than the Bail Act. Why has it not been urgently amended too?
Why is Wickman Point not opened up as a boot boot camp to give dignity to offenders with good old fashioned hard work, healthy living and quality rehabilitation with dignity and respect and tough love and where is the training and sentenced to a job program for offenders?
Where are all the other boot camps that should be in place throughout the Northern Territory to provide dignity and respect and tough love and training and sentenced to a job program for offenders?
Lucio, the Americanised military discipline objectives of Boot Camps do not achieve Offenders rehabilitation. What does work . . . are small groups, twelve to fourteen personnel on a ratio of one worker to two offenders. Challenging and enjoying. Constant adjusting and enjoying the benefits of new experiences, disciplines, behaviours that benefit group first, and self later. Group discipline and enjoyment prioritised. “Self” does not work! Small mobile camps demand constant exposure. Multiple, daily adjustment, expectation, challenges.
The Brotherhood of St Laurence, Fitzroy, Melbourne. Spent over twenty years developing Mobile Camping across Australia. Both remote and urban developmental.