It should worry you that the One Nation candidate on track to win Farrer thinks it is "above his paygrade" whether Gina Rinehart is funding the party.
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Raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14 is a catalyst for change. Good change. For kids, communities and the budget bottom-line. Here is Rev. Bill Crews’ message to the NSW Government.
Raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14 is a catalyst for change. Good change. For kids, communities and the budget bottom-line. Here is Rev. Bill Crews’ message to the NSW Government.
Bill is one of many leaders, ready for when our governments decide to show leadership, be guided by evidence and work with organisations, to do better for children and communities.
In NSW, and across most of Australia, ten-year-olds are sent to prison. That is too young.
The NSW Premier, Chris Minns and our PM spent some of their Christmas Day last year volunteering with the amazing Rev. Bill Crews. Good on them.
A photo at a stadium where Souths are playing St George.
Glory glory!
What a nice change from the usual stories of horrible hospo bosses stealing wages and abusing staff. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
That's too young
Ben Roberts Smith doesn’t get drones just a mass media pack and his thumbs up. Urgh.
Yeah. It’s wild.
Such a cop out by all governments that do this. Youth crime is a social problem.
And most do. The ACT is the only jurisdiction who has raised the age to 14 and their model isn’t the greatest.
The younger a child is when they are forced, by our failures, into the criminal legal system the more likely it is they will stay in it from child, to teen to adult. (Unless they are some one like Ben Roberts Smith, of course).
It truely is.
We can do better. bsky.app/profile/emil...
They make a good point.
10 years old!? Wtf. That in itself is criminal.
Big love. It’s all awful — we must change it.
A big 👍 to Chris Minns. 🙄
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Well, they kind of have to while ever the age of criminal responsibility is ten. Lawyers aren’t a fan of it either both the Bar Association and Law Society in NSW constantly advocate to raise the age.
h/t via @emilymayo.bsky.social the Minns government passed laws to cause more incarceration of children, which are functioning exactly as designed. Criminal proceedings in children courts are literally that - criminalisation processes. No justice happens there.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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Meanwhile, in Moree, police are using drones to surveil actual children who are then more likely to plead guilty because of changes to the bail act to make it easier to lock up children than adults. www.theage.com.au/national/rob...
Yup. Disgraceful.
Meanwhile in #NSWpol — www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
more than 70% of incarcerated children and young people in NSW are presumptively innocent (locked up “on remand”). More than half of all incarcerated children, on any given night, in every jurisdiction, are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The evidence is in. Locking up children is a failure for children and all of us. We need political leadership to get is critical reform done - and to do better for children and all of us.
I have an 11-year-old. They went to before and after school care at The Cottage. I was the volunteer chair of the parent run not-for-profit-service at our school.
When we had our meetings we sat in the little tiny chairs. The same little tiny chairs that the ten-year-old kids used at the Centre.
