Speaker 1: Talking of second chances. State government is to introduce posts
Speaker 1: and boast laws which will give a maximum extra penalty
Speaker 1: of two years if you post online like a bragging
Speaker 1: post about a crime you've done. Welcome because it's certainly
Speaker 1: a major incentive for young offenders. I suppose it's always
Speaker 1: been this, hasn't a people at Carboniams and someone we're
Speaker 1: very keen to have this public profile. So it's about ridiculously,
Speaker 1: it's about which is steel or what you do, but
Speaker 1: how many likes you get. Certainly up in the Northern
Speaker 1: Territory they've seen that. So there was one occasion where
Speaker 1: a particular reckless crime happened in Wa and they could
Speaker 1: track it like a rash going right across the top end.
Speaker 1: In Melbourne we have serious gang leaders who are watching
Speaker 1: online fights so that they recruit the people that they
Speaker 1: think are really good fighters. So it's a little bit
Speaker 1: like AFL recruiting officers before the draft, examining who they
Speaker 1: want to recruit. Interesting this particular legislation was rejected by
Speaker 1: the government a year ago, but as you pointed out, Ross,
Speaker 1: it's the cabinet is full of hawks and doves, and
Speaker 1: I think the hawks are winning I wonder what former
Speaker 1: Chief Commissioner Shane Patten would think because all his raft
Speaker 1: of law reforms were rejected. But we're now coming into
Speaker 1: the long cycle of the next state election and it's
Speaker 1: clear that government has to really try and win back
Speaker 1: the law and auto votes. So I think from now
Speaker 1: on they'll be more like Kadaffi than Gandhy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well some of them, someone was explaining to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know whether I said it to you on
Speaker 2: air or office like that. Situation with the cabinet is
Speaker 2: half of them like police and half of them maintement.
Speaker 1: Oh that's exactly right. But they all like being in power.
Speaker 1: They all like winning their seats, so I think doves
Speaker 1: will get teats.
Speaker 2: Is there a possibility that what will the and in
Speaker 2: law of unintended consequences about the post and boast laws
Speaker 2: will be if someone will go along with the youth
Speaker 2: who's committed an offense, and part of their plea will
Speaker 2: be they should get a discount because they didn't put
Speaker 2: it on Facebook.
Speaker 1: You know exactly the answer to that, And of course
Speaker 1: the answer is yes. So if you seriously assault somebody
Speaker 1: who go well, at least I didn't kill him, So
Speaker 1: and the person who's going to inherit all this is
Speaker 1: Mike Bush, the new Chief Commissioner, who I think is
Speaker 1: due to arrive next week on a five year term.
Speaker 1: He's from New Zealand. Never met the man, but I'm
Speaker 1: told from those who do he's a natural leader and
Speaker 1: they'll need every bit of that skill with what is coming,
Speaker 1: because of course he's going to have a shrinking budget.
Speaker 1: He'll have to make cuts while trying to deal with
Speaker 1: a crime way. For some suggestion, because he's from New Zealand,
Speaker 1: there'll be a formal sort of New Zealand handover which
Speaker 1: will include a Maori sort of press, which I applaud
Speaker 1: because if that's the case, could you imagine the critical
Speaker 1: incident response to him. If they were able to do
Speaker 1: the harker before they endered a demonstrations situation, it would
Speaker 1: concentrate the mind of people who were protesting about bicycles.
Speaker 1: I suspect would hop on their bicycles