You've balled him up!
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I think the last amendments to the Sentencing Act Section 26A pre sentence reports which the ACT Party refer to, were made in 2016 when National were government.
I could be wrong but don't think there's been any changes since Labour became govt.
i.e. Labour haven't weakened the sentencing laws.
The Courts & judicial system may be trying new approaches as just incarcerating young offenders hasn't been working, & if somethings not working we need to try new approaches.
Once young offenders get a record & institutionalised in the prison system, its very difficult to turn them around.
There's a brilliant quote by a former Chief Justice of NSW who said,
"The ..care of the sentencing task is a process of overlapping contradictory & incommensurable objectives.
The requirements of deterrence, rehabilitation, denunciation, punishment & restorative justice, do not generally point in the same direction.
Specifically the requirements of justice in the sense of just deserts, & of mercy often conflict.
Yet we live in a society which values both justice & mercy."
In 2010 the Electoral Act 1993 was amended to disqualify all prisoners from voting (regardless of the length of sentence imposed). In 2020 this law was amended so that only persons serving a sentence of imprisonment for a term of three years or more are disenfranchised.
Anything for votes - that's Ardern & Kelvin Davis.
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Come on Cinders, you know your flame burned out long ago.
Take the opportunity to call a snap General election, instead of just a Hamilton by election.
Extinguish yourself and the rest of NZ from your misery.
Sharma on you.
Bloody nose awaits Ardern & her useless mob in Hamilton.
A disastrous look for the Covid lockdown Queen.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/audrey...K33QNLBLV35GE/
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An unnecessary byelection has been forced by the unnecessary resignation of a former member of the Labour Party caucus who is battling irrelevance.
That said, the byelection is likely to be a bloodbath for Labour.
Ardern & her Labour mob clearly panicking about the Hamilton by-election :
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18...-hamilton-west
Their excuses for losing are already coming out thick and fast. They know they are going to get caned for 5 years of clueless and useless time in government.
Delicious!
Wonderful!
First Hamilton, then 2023!