If this community wants to debate sentencing in our courts, then it needs to end its practice of selective outrage. We need to be highlighting sentences which, on any measure, are outrageously harsh, writes Greg Barns.
Custodial sentences
Why Judge Bradley was right
The aspect of this case that is perhaps the most sickening is the way in which politicians have thrown up their hands in horror and jumped all over Judge Bradley and the Crown prosecutor in the case. These politicians are the very same people who have allowed the rate of Indigenous offenders in prison to remain outrageously high year in and year out, writes Greg Barns.
