How the new Andrews government sentencing laws to protect emergency services workers will harm women.
The Andrews Government has introduced legislation to expand mandatory sentencing for injury caused to emergency service workers, including ambulance officers, police, protective services officers, and custodial officers.
"This was a murder committed, not at large against a person unknown to the offender, by a person with no prior criminal record. I do not mean to suggest thereby that the murder of a spouse or a partner is any less serious than the murder of a stranger. However, it is a matter which is relevant to the issue of community protection." said the judge.
Through working with hundreds of men every week, my organisation, No to Violence, does not believe these measures will keep women and children safer or keep perpetrators in view.
Any system of justice that penalises people for lodging dodgy business activity statements in the same way as remorseless husbands who kill their wives is ethically and jurisprudentially disfigured. Welcome to the pitiful state of sentencing law in Victoria in 2019.
WA's highest court has more than doubled the jail term imposed on a Kimberley man whose "savage and frenzied attack" on his former partner left her a quadriplegic and totally dependent on others for her care.
