Mal Brough says we should remove the perpetrators of crime from the scene rather than the victim. What a novel idea. Funny how male violence against women and children is the only one where we regularly require the victim to relocate ‘for her safety’ whereas in every other crime, we take away and either counsel or punish the offender.
(I do get that in serial offences, some women need to move so the offender doesn’t know where they are. But the offender should be dealt with too; the solution should not simply be seen as the removal of his target.)
How weird to find myself agreeing with a Liberal – now we have two of them. Well done, that man. Between him and Petro Giorgiou, I might begin to think they’re not monsters. Well, except I want counselling programs and community solutions and Brough wants law-and-order, but it’s a start.
However, this, from the same article, is outrageous:
Local council spokesman Dale Seaniger said that because of rioting the local Centrelink office had been open for only 11⁄2 days in the past two weeks and about 400 people did not have access to their benefits. “So people are hungry,” he said.
I’m sorry? You close the office and because people can’t hand their forms in, you don’t pay them? Do you think maybe paying them in good faith might be an idea? Frigging bureaucracy!