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Speaker 1: Now I've done a bit of an exercise today, right.

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Speaker 1: I started reading the news this morning, and I was

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Speaker 1: really quickly struck by how many opinion pieces and comments

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Speaker 1: of outrage there where over the government removing the voting

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Speaker 1: rights from prisoners. There was just by my account, two

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Speaker 1: full opinion pieces by academics, a newsletter that landed in

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Speaker 1: my inbox, a left wing blog post, outrage from labor,

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Speaker 1: and outrage from the Greens. So when I saw that,

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Speaker 1: I thought, Jesus's quite a lot coming from these guys.

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Speaker 1: I'll just do a little It might be interesting to

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Speaker 1: compare this to how many opinion pieces and comments of

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Speaker 1: outrage there are about the four killings currently in the

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Speaker 1: news that have all been committed by people either previously

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Speaker 1: in jail or previously in mental health care. And if

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Speaker 1: you don't know what I'm talking about, it's the man

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Speaker 1: who has now murdered twice and been found insane twice.

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Speaker 1: It's the two murders by Hilmorton mental health patients, and

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Speaker 1: it's the murder by the parole rapist in christ Judge.

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Speaker 1: All of them have been in the news just in

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Speaker 1: the last few days. I didn't find one piece, not

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Speaker 1: one opinion piece by an academic about this. Not one

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Speaker 1: comment of outrage from the Greens, and the only relevant

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Speaker 1: comment that I could find from Labor was the Labor

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Speaker 1: MP saying that it was inappropriate to comment on it. Now.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't that tell you a lot about where we're putting

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Speaker 1: our energy at the moment we are? It would seem

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Speaker 1: angsting more about protecting the right that a prisoner has

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Speaker 1: to vote, a right which, by the way, we were

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Speaker 1: just told yesterday on the show most prisoners don't even want.

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Speaker 1: But we are angsting ourselves over protecting that, and we

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Speaker 1: are more angsting for angsting more about protecting that than

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Speaker 1: we are about protecting the rights of innocent people not

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Speaker 1: to be hurt by high risk people who we know

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Speaker 1: are high risk. Now, we should be interrogating the agencies

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Speaker 1: responsible here, We should be finding out what went wrong,

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Speaker 1: and we should be angsting over it so it doesn't

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Speaker 1: happen again. And I would venture that our priorities are

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Speaker 1: way out of whack if we are more stressed in

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Speaker 1: the news media about where the bad guys can vote

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Speaker 1: than where the authorities are keeping innocent people safe. For

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