Talking of second chances. State government is to introduce posts and boast laws which will give a maximum extra penalty of two years if you post online like a bragging post about a crime you've done. Welcome because it's certainly a major incentive for young offenders. I suppose it's always been this, hasn't a people at Carboniams and someone we're very keen to have this public profile. So it's about ridiculously, it's about which is steel or what you do, but
how many likes you get. Certainly up in the Northern Territory they've seen that. So there was one occasion where a particular reckless crime happened in Wa and they could track it like a rash going right across the top end. In Melbourne we have serious gang leaders who are watching online fights so that they recruit the people that they think are really good fighters. So it's a little bit like AFL recruiting officers before the draft, examining who they
want to recruit. Interesting this particular legislation was rejected by the government a year ago, but as you pointed out, Ross, it's the cabinet is full of hawks and doves, and I think the hawks are winning I wonder what former Chief Commissioner Shane Patten would think because all his raft of law reforms were rejected. But we're now coming into the long cycle of the next state election and it's clear that government has to really try and win back
the law and auto votes. So I think from now on they'll be more like Kadaffi than Gandhy.
Yeah, well some of them, someone was explaining to me. I don't know whether I said it to you on air or office like that. Situation with the cabinet is half of them like police and half of them maintement.
Oh that's exactly right. But they all like being in power. They all like winning their seats, so I think doves will get teats.
Is there a possibility that what will the and in law of unintended consequences about the post and boast laws will be if someone will go along with the youth who's committed an offense, and part of their plea will be they should get a discount because they didn't put it on Facebook.
You know exactly the answer to that, And of course the answer is yes. So if you seriously assault somebody who go well, at least I didn't kill him, So and the person who's going to inherit all this is Mike Bush, the new Chief Commissioner, who I think is due to arrive next week on a five year term.
He's from New Zealand. Never met the man, but I'm told from those who do he's a natural leader and they'll need every bit of that skill with what is coming, because of course he's going to have a shrinking budget. He'll have to make cuts while trying to deal with a crime way. For some suggestion, because he's from New Zealand, there'll be a formal sort of New Zealand handover which will include a Maori sort of press, which I applaud because if that's the case, could you imagine the critical
incident response to him. If they were able to do the harker before they endered a demonstrations situation, it would concentrate the mind of people who were protesting about bicycles. I suspect would hop on their bicycles