Decision to walk away from raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14 prompts outcry from experts – and discontent among party’s progressives
Premier Jacinta Allan has failed to ‘manage the narrative’ as effectively as her predecessor, according to one Victorian Labor MP.Premier Jacinta Allan has failed to ‘manage the narrative’ as effectively as her predecessor, according to one Victorian Labor MP.The phrase “never waste a day” was often repeated by the Victorian Labor government as it jumped from one progressive reform to another at a seemingly relentless pace.
Nerita Waight, from the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, put it bluntly when she said Allan “caved to a scare campaign from Victoria police and the Herald Sun”, and warned neither would “reward the government for bending the knee”. While walking away from raising the age to 14 may be a signal to voters that they are “tough on crime”, crime statistics show that alleged offenders aged 10 to 13 are associated with a very small minority of all alleged offender incidents, compared to those aged 14-17 and adults .The proposed timing to raise the age to 14 was also years away.
Several Labor MPs at the time said concerns the party could be seen as “losing” on the issue of health had prompted cabinet to agree to a “pared-back” response to the report.in Melbourne’s CBD in April , and a decision to
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