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Hinch's message: 'Do something!'

Posted by: Derryn Hinch | 4 February, 2010 - 10:37 PM

Just imagine you are the Premier of this state, John Brumby. Or the Attorney-General. Rob Hulls. And you get up every morning and you open the morning papers. And there it is again. Another headline screaming at you about some other scandalous screw up in our legal system.

And you've got an election coming up. And Law and Order is going to be a big issue. Wouldn't you be scared? And you can't blame anybody else – although you'll try – because you've been in office for more than 10 years.

They are your laws that are being mocked and abused by criminals. A litany of abuses. Suppression orders. Suspended sentences. And the latest ones all documented in the Herald Sun, the biggest selling newspaper in the land.

Do the words of Hawthorn coach John Kennedy ever reverberate in the minds of Hulls and Brumby? 'Do Something!'

I doubt Bob Cameron the fumbling Police Minister does, or even can, read the newspaper.

The latest scandal involves the same man who was the centre of last week's scandal. The child rapist, supposedly under an Extended Supervision Order, whom I cannot name. The man whose name was suppressed, then released when he scarpered for the second time while supposedly being monitored by an electronic ankle bracelet, then suppressed again.

Now it turns out when he's supposedly under supervision he has been making hundreds of phone calls to sex lines from his taxpayer-funded cottage outside Ararat Jail. More than fifty calls in four hours late one night at a cost of more than $500.

And the Department of Justice must pay the bill. That means you. It's crazy. It's their phone. It's like a parent being billed for calls made by a teenage son or daughter.

What would you do as a parent? You'd block access to the phone. Or you'd block 1 800 or 1 900 numbers. But that's too simple.

And how much supervision is going on if this man can make 52 uncensored calls in one night? What if he were calling victims? Or potential victims? Or harassing their families?

I tell you, we are banging our heads against a brick wall. And those bricks were piled higher and higher over a decade by Bracks, Brumby and Hulls and their blinkered 'touchy feely government' more interested in the rights of serial rapists and pedophiles than in the rights and safety of your children.

Supressed, not supressed, supressed

Moments after Hinch launched into a typically scathing editorial in relation to the initial supression of a convicted rapist's identity - even after he had escaped from a correctional facility - the man's name was again supressed. Read what you're allowed to.

DEBATE: Hinch v Hulls

On the day Hinch loses Supreme Court bid relating to his public naming of two sex offenders, Attorney General Rob Hulls joined him in the studio to debate our legal system. Fiery debate at times, but is Hulls listening to us? Have your say.

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We have the only state in the world where 'Justice' is delivered by the 'softly softly' approach, criminal's rights override victim's rights, prison terms are determined on the basis of state government financial commitments, AND of course we MUST spend $360 million on the tennis centre to appease 'influential' Labor supporters, plus 20 Mil to 'pretty up' a bridge~! We are SO lucky to live in this state~! Pardon me whilst I vomit~!

Lenny Saturday 13 February, 2010 - 3:29 PM
If only Hulls and the rest of them would put as much effort into actually doing their jobs properly and being EFFECTIVE as they do opening their mouths (only) to congratulate themselves. This "government" is an absolute disgrace and a CONSTANT insult to the intelligence of most of us. It seems they don't really feel they live here amongst the rest of us! They're safe and untouchable up there in blah-blah-land while everybody else is trying to get by in Gotham City - with the criminals running wild! This is a sick, sick, situation!! Hulls, Brumby, you should be deeply, DEEPLY ashamed!

Justine Saturday 13 February, 2010 - 9:51 AM
Hull's you are an idiot. I have experience in the prison system. It is over flowing and bursting at the seams. People today get bail in circumstances where they would not even have been considered for 10 years ago. No wonder the all the Judges and Magestrates you have appointed hand out suspended sentences like a Myers Santa hands out lollies at Christmas time.
Wake up to yourself you wozzle!!!!

Elvis Friday 12 February, 2010 - 1:27 PM
Hull's is a pathetic soft lefty moron that is far more concerned for the criminal than the victim. His record over the last 10 years has given this state this current situation that law and order is out of control. Get rid of Hulls along with Brumby and his band of cronies.

Bozo Friday 5 February, 2010 - 8:33 PM