Greg Barns
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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Well, either James is not that bright or he's intellectually lazy.
Or worse still he's intellectually dishonest and he knows that
what the truth of the matter is.
But how could anyone possibly say who's a shadow attorney general, this is a person who is offering themselves up to be the next first law officer of Victoria, think that a court of criminal appeal, whether it's in Queensland or Tasmania or New South Wales, simply because it's got that designation, that's the place where you go for hardline judges to up sentences.
I mean, honestly
It's more than misleading.
It's dangerous talk.
And um it's as you say, irresponsible.
And interestingly, James might want to talk to his friends at the Institute of Public Affairs, because they have said there are too many people in jail and they say that people
who have committed nonviolent offenses sh basically shouldn't be in jail.
Now, I would also say some lower level violent offenses shouldn't be uh the subject of jail.
But what James wants to do and what Jess Wilson will want to do
is waste taxpayers' money.
If these policies were so good, in other words, if every time politicians increase sentences they they think there w we've fixed it.
Well why is it that you've got to keep building jails because you want to put more people inside if these policies are so fantastic?
It's fiscally irresponsible.
It's a policy that's a failure and known to be a failure.
But we're prepared to spend billions on infrastructure that could go into health and education and and planning and other areas where you can get some bang for your buck.
I think that was an extraordinary comment.
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