Greg Barns
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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I couldn't believe the Greens supported it.
Labor, you've you've given away on those issues, but that says that in serious offenses now it can only be used, I think, for the purposes of rehabilitation, et cetera.
Now, the judges hate it, and magistrates hate it, and for a good reason, because it leads to injustice.
If I can't take into account, for example, the
Yeah.
who's otherwise of very good conduct, who does something really stupid because they can't handle their grog.
Am I really saying, as one of the victims lobbyists down here said last week, oh if you commit these offences you're not a person of good character?
The world doesn't work like that.
People are flawed.
We're all flawed, and some people do commit serious offences and regret it and live with it for the rest of their lives.
Well, you know, Barnett and other attorneys have said, and the victim's lobbies have said, we shouldn't have to sit here and hear about a person's good character.
Well
Maybe not.
But there seems to be a view now taken by politicians that the justice system is not there as an even handed process.
It's to get the defendant and to strip away the defendant's rights.
So it's a weighing up exercise because victims rightly have taken into account victim impact statements, the impact in fact every judgment you would have written would include and does include in every judge and magistrate it
Does it every day about the impact on the victim.
But you've got to take into account the defendant's circumstances.
And the problem is that this is thin end of the wedge stuff.
You get rid of character.
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