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Speaker 1: At the end of the week, as in Sunday, the

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Speaker 1: government's much debated military academy for young offenders will be underway.

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Speaker 1: They're probably the headline aspect I'm thinking of this weird

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Speaker 1: overall scrap we seem to be having post the election

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Speaker 1: around ideas that are to be enacted and yet don't

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Speaker 1: have a level of acceptance from the opponents, despite the

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Speaker 1: fact that what those opponents propose and support doesn't and

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Speaker 1: hasn't worked. Crime and its offenders fits neatly into the

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Speaker 1: category of issues that we face where we can all

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Speaker 1: agree there's a major problem. Stats are indisputable. So the

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Speaker 1: idea is that, in part, if you take the most

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Speaker 1: recidivist of those operators, put them in some kind of

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Speaker 1: environment and try and turn their lives around, you might

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Speaker 1: well be making a decent sort of dent in said problem.

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Speaker 1: The soft approach, the Huggathon of the past six years

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Speaker 1: has been an abject failure, and yet those who love

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Speaker 1: the Huggathon cannot bring themselves to believe that trying something

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Speaker 1: new might just might help. There was another sneering piece

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Speaker 1: on TV three the other night in which yet again

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Speaker 1: they rounded up the same tired old favorite to run

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Speaker 1: the line that this has been tried before and didn't work.

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Speaker 1: They even went as far as to find a bloke

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Speaker 1: who had been sent to one of these camps decades

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Speaker 1: ago and was abused, completely missing the possibility that in

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Speaker 1: the ensuing decades the world might just have moved on

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Speaker 1: a little bit and what we did in the sixties

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Speaker 1: and seventies might just look slightly different now. Are there

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Speaker 1: as none so blind as those who will not see?

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Speaker 1: Are This not to say the academies will be a

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Speaker 1: hit or a revelation. They might, they might not. But

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Speaker 1: like a lot of ideas in life, execution is the

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Speaker 1: key simply bagging an idea, ignoring its modern subtleties as

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Speaker 1: lazy debate and its lazy journalism. Just for a minute,

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Speaker 1: what if it works? Eh? What if it helps? What

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Speaker 1: if all the hand ringers are actually wrong? And that

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Speaker 1: is how you solve issues. You don't solve them by

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Speaker 1: doing the same thing you know as failed. You try

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Speaker 1: something different, You shake it up. Time will tell, of course,

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Speaker 1: But given we all know the state of crime and

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Speaker 1: the kids who perpetrate it, how about we pause long

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Speaker 1: enough to just let them give it a crack. For

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