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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by northernblue -
Quote from: shawny – on
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/victoria-is-car-theft-and-home-invasion-capital-of-australia-20260909-p60vtt

Another unwanted record under this incompetent trainwreck of a government.
  

Its hard to take anything you post seriously when there is nothing that this team can possibly do that could earn your praise and respect.
look beyond the jumper.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: shawny – on
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/victoria-is-car-theft-and-home-invasion-capital-of-australia-20260909-p60vtt

Another unwanted record under this incompetent trainwreck of a government.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that Victoria has more cars and more people than all of the other States except NSW. In fact, Queensland has a higher per capita rate of car thefts.

It's probably best to rely on ABS statistics than data provided by vested interests.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by kruddler -
There was a recent example in a nearby school where a teacher was stood down because of child sexual abuse claims.
These claims were from previous schools they worked at.
It was implied that everytime an issue was raised, they were moved onto another school and it was swept under the carpet.

A working with children check doesn't always work.....or it appears that someone who gets one, may still transgress after the fact with no scope to catch them out from then on.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by DJC -
I listened to an interesting if depressing discussion of child sex abuse on the wireless this morning.  Some of the key points:

One in four children experience sexual abuse.

One in ten adult men admit to having sexual feelings about children.

While most abused children don’t go on to commit sex crimes, the rate of sex crime offending was 11% higher among confirmed abused children than a control group without sexual abuse.

Programs to raise awareness of child sexual abuse are being condemned as “woke” by some politicians.

Only a relatively small percentage of child sex abuse occurs in institutions; most is committed within families or by close friends.  While working with children checks may help to reduce institutional child sex abuse, they do nothing to prevent the vast majority of cases.

That typifies the problem, and is relevant to other crime; there’s a limited bucket of money with competing demands, and governments often choose the more obvious but less effective options.

Obviously, the justice system can’t deal with one in ten adult males, so how do we ensure that they don’t go on to offend?