Greg Barns
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160 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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I mean the American justice system is uh not particularly robust in some circumstances and these cases get politicized far too easily.
Why doesn't Warren just move to the US system and be honest, Warren, what you want is elected judges.
Do you want them to run around Victoria putting their placards up in front yards, boasting about how many convictions they've engineered?
But I'll tell you the serious point about this, of course, is that if Jess Wilson and the Liberals get elected, they'll have to do a deal with one nation, uh m I think most people are saying.
And I wouldn't be surprised because of James Newbury, who's the shadow attorney general and completely lacking, it seems, in any knowledge about the rule of law, and prepared to spout one nation style.
rhetoric and uh that's all it is, rhetoric.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the Liberals move down this path.
In other words, come to some compromise where they say, Oh, well we'll have a panel picking judges now and it'll include uh members of the public.
I gotta say, any lawyer who joins such a panel, you'd have to say to them, You do know that you're ripping up the rule of law and the separation of powers, don't you?
Yeah.
Well, what they want to do is undermine the judiciary, and Attorneys General and Shadow Attorneys General do it all the time and they've been doing it since the nineteen eighties.
But I'll tell you, James and his mate Warren might be careful what they wish for, because Kate Warner from the University of Tasmania, who was a also a former governor, she did a whole lot of work with jurors.
And the majority of jurors who'd sat on cases would in fact, once they had all the knowledge, have imposed a lesser sentence.
But the problem is, of course, that uh what you'll have is uh you'll have uh somebody from the police association, somebody from the victims' lobby, there'll be no one from the criminal bar association, there'll be you know, it'll be heavily skewed.
But the fundamental point is Newbury is irresponsible.
He
seems to forget that the role of an attorney general is to be the first law officer.
And to push back against ridiculous policies, if you can call them policies, dreamt up in the leader's office or by himself.
He's your he's your local member, isn't he, Lex, isn't he, down the beachside, somewhere in Melbourne?
Yeah, yeah.
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