‘Manifestly inadequate’: DPP appeals no jail sentence for hit-and-run driver, while calls mount for AG to resign
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has appealed the sentence handed out to 24-year-ol
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*sounds of crickets and bull frogs chirping away in the silence of the early evening….waiting for the angry ‘tough on crime’ brigade to come out of their burrows*
Come on ladies and gentlemen, you can do it, you can also call for being “tough on crime” for people who are not Aboriginal. It won’t undermine your position; on the contrary it will only strengthen it. Take a deep breath, fire up your laptop, we believe in you! *Rocky music – for all you classic 80s movies watchers out there*
We’ll say it again: where is the “tough on crime” frothing at the mouth statements from LiaR Finocchiaro now?
What are you paying your ‘crisis manager’ for? Is she simply going to follow your lead and advise you to hide away for a week until this hopefully blows over?
Just like you think the Darwin Waterfront Corporation has blown over? (Not in our group it hasn’t)
Just like you think the racist lying Police Officers no consequences deal has blown over? (Not in our group it hasn’t)
Just like you think the $60 Million fraud from the IEPS non-action has blown over? (Not in our group it hasn’t)
If the DPP can step in and publicly state that a sentence from an NT Government friendly ex-SFNT judge is “manifestly inadequate“ and review it, then why can’t they do the same with lying racist Police Officers when their ‘sentence’ was……eh, nothing?
It can’t only be our household that is wondering why there are no public statements from Dear Dear Me Leader about “tough on crime” meaning the same for everyone, no matter your background or your skin colour or your age or who in Government your family is connected to.
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The stench of hypocritical CLP leadershit is getting worse by the day.
Why does that feel weird to write? Ah yes, that’s why, because Sam Burke, husband of LiaR Finocchiaro, seems to get a free pass when it comes to being investigated by the Government bodies tasked with investigating.
This also reminds us of the curious case of ‘no conviction recorded’ of Darwin lawyer Matt Hubber who was found guilty of buying cocaine twice (that we know of) while he was a practising lawyer. He now has NT Government contracts, it’s on the Legal Services List of NTG, check it out.
His father in law at that time was ex-DPP Rex Wild, who turned up to Court to give a glowing character reference for young Matty.
The judge ‘sentenced’ him to a ‘no-conviction-recorded’, stating the publicity was punishment enough (poor little Matty) while also saying what a great guy Rex was.
Look him up online.
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Family connections matter in the NT. Attorney Generally Rubbish Boothby would know this, as she participated directly in the cover up for her boss’s husband at Darwin Waterfront Corporation.
It seems young and very racist Mr Danby is fully aware of that kind of family help one can rely on when you’re ‘in the shit’.
“I do have to hand myself in but I ain’t getting jail time,” Danby wrote. “I’m a Danby, we don’t go to jail.
“It’s amazing how much lawyers fight for you like it’s life and death when you know you can pay whatever fee they pull out of their ass.”
That kind of sense of entitlement is clearly learned from experience in his group.
We wonder how many others in his family have also gotten away with stuff. That would be worth looking into, for all you budding (and real) citizen journalists out there.
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And maybe Sonia Brownhill, with all her Government legal experience, and it is heaps by the way, reckoned that she had seen so many Government people get off with things they shouldn’t have and that this has shaped her thinking when she was about to hit the ‘Return’ key on her keyboard to publish her decision in this instance. It’s fine, people get away with this level of thing all the time in my previous line of work, no big deal at one more.
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UNTRUSTWORTHY
More worrying is an Attorney Generally Rubbish hiding relevant family connections from the victims’ families, the public and the media.
This kind of behaviour shows just how much she doesn’t care about being truthful and honest.
It also makes us very uncomfortable about what else she hides from everyone.
There is a severe lack of trust between this Government – actually the Labor Party is no better to be honest – and the rest of us.
But then of course we have to remember that hiding information and cover ups are just what the CLPALP Alliance love to do when in Government.
Alastair Shields From The Public, the Chief Minister’s husband Sam Burke and their Darwin Waterfront Corporation cover up is in the every increasing Hall of Lame when it comes to CLPALP Alliance untrustworthiness.
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“OXYGEN THIEVES”, “DOGS” AND “N***ERS”
No public condemnation it seems of this disgusting racism either from anyone in the Crappy Littleminded Party.
Credit where credit is due to the ALP in this case however.
Your statements about Boothby having no integrity, breach of trust, no transparency, lying by omission, are spot on.
Yet again we Territorians find ourselves with a Government full of people who think they are better than us, who think they can lie to our faces, who think they can get away with not informing the public about relevant information, who think that there is nothing we can do to stop their cover ups and complicity when it comes to protecting their own above the rest of us.
It appears to be a sickness of personality in certain kinds of people who pretend to understand integrity and transparency but who don’t believe it should apply to them.
That’s just for the little people then.
Entitlement runs deep. We can see it oozing out of young racist Jake Danby. We can sense it in Sonia Brownhill’s decision making reasoning.
Why aren’t there more dissenting comments about those truly shocking comments about “n***ers”?
If we had a family member who openly texted stuff like that to anyone, we would not be shy in calling that behaviour out and working out how to eradicate it.
Nothing from the Entitled Higher Ups in NT Society about that particular part?
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In one way. It is possible to comprehend immaturity. Another way is to never under-estimate arrogance associated with violence? That’s why we have Courts and Legal expertise. The current focus / dilemma therefore must not impede a Court process? Rather, the challenge is to circum-navigate one event and question why Territory Communities accept, rely upon, a broader problem of the Territory legal fraternity . . . and their empowerment? Particularly so when one considers current infiltration of governance and associated organizations?
Sounds more like some people are outraged because of what he said after the fact, not the actual crime he was tried for.
Given all the premeditated violent crimes that get suspended sentences and community orders, this is a weak one to be outraged about.
Our daughter asked this: If this happened in June 2024 mum, how long has Marie-Clare Boothby known about it and all the details?
We would assume she’s known about it, and so would the Chief Minister because she would have to tell her about this very serious crime: someone in your immediate family killed another human being then laughed and joked about it, before she officially got into Government or at the very least right after she got into Government. Surely?
As she was brainstorming her media releases for the CLP ‘tough on crime’/locking up 10 year olds policies, she would have known about this and that it would be important to tell people about, seeing as you’re constantly demonising Aboriginal kids and locking them up, away from their families. Screaming for bail to be revoked because someone stole a car or smashed a window.
And yet here she is, one year after being elected, one year after being given the Attorney General job and not one person thought it was a good idea to either mention it to the public and/or step aside while it was on-going?
Even after the ‘sentencing’, still not one person mentioned it. They conspired again to keep it a secret. From everyone.
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The Cover Ups and lies by omission continue then, as usual.
Can’t trust this Party. At all.
The only thing we can trust them to do, is to keep lying to us.
I will read a two-line summary when you get around to it.
I live for Boofs succint and informative 1 Liners!
The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to “a level of respective inability”: persons are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.
Good morning,
I’m appalled — and if you’re not, I urge you to read that statement again.
Just take a moment to absorb it: “oxygen thieves.”
Human lives have been lost — and those words were delivered without a shred of compassion. There’s no coming back from that.
In my view, Boothby has sunk even lower than Fyles — and that’s saying something. As for LiaR, her words and her ongoing inaction should have every Territorian demanding resignations across the board.
This isn’t just wrong — it’s a sickness, and it must be treated without delay.
Where is the noise in supporting Territorians from our Federal representatives or are we to accept they also condone this corruption!
Stay strong,
Daz
My apologies,
I failed to make mention-Is it coincidental that Boothby found no-one answerable over the Waterfront apparent scandal and now LiaR Finnochiaro , a lawyer, stands behind Boothby!
Things that make you go HMMM!
Chansey has his own issues around transparency and integrity.
He, along with Dheran Young, still hasn’t returned terry taxpayer’s $$$ they used with fuel cards interstate when they went on leave over the Christmas break when Mr. Monahan was Speaker.
Glass houses and stones come to mind.