Victoria has been urged to consider New Zealand’s approach to cracking down on retail crime.

Chairman of the New Zealand government’s ministerial advisory group for the victims of retail crime Sunny Kasushal says New Zealand was able to get on top of its crime crisis by having the will to do something about it.

“They [the government] made it clear that it could no longer be tolerated,” he told Tom Elliott.

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