Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Adjournment
Community safety
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Table of contents
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Bills
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Australian Grands Prix Amendment Bill 2025
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Committee
- Georgie CROZIER
- Gayle TIERNEY
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- Katherine COPSEY
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- Georgie CROZIER
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- Georgie CROZIER
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- Gayle TIERNEY
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- Georgie CROZIER
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- David LIMBRICK
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- Georgie CROZIER
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- Katherine COPSEY
- Katherine COPSEY
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- David LIMBRICK
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- Katherine COPSEY
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Bills
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Australian Grands Prix Amendment Bill 2025
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Committee
- Georgie CROZIER
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- Georgie CROZIER
- Gayle TIERNEY
- Georgie CROZIER
- Gayle TIERNEY
- Georgie CROZIER
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- Katherine COPSEY
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Community safety
Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (18:17): (1976) My adjournment is directed to the Attorney-General, and the action I seek is for the Attorney-General to initiate a royal commission into the operation of Victoria’s courts to ensure that justice in this state serves both community safety and the rights of victims, and clearly sends a message that this abhorrent behaviour by youths, carrying machetes and invading homes to steal, is not going to be tolerated any further. The government owes the community a review of our court system, which is allowing a crisis to continue to be perpetuated, fuelled by lenient sentencing, the manipulation of bail laws and an apparent disregard for victims. The community is losing faith, particularly with the example of a recidivist offender recently granted bail to go on an overseas holiday with his family. This has rightly shocked Victorians. It is sending the wrong message – that offending carries no real consequence – while victims are left to live with lasting harm. As the Community Advocacy Alliance stated:
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There was a simple and responsible alternative to the argument that the offender had to accompany his family on a trip overseas to visit an ailing relative. Otherwise, they would have had to cancel their trip or leave him on his own.
Why? Wouldn’t it have been fairer to victims to have a government that stands up and does what the community would demand: refuse bail and allow justice to take its course? But no, it is clear by community outcry, crime rate surges and offenders running rampant that our courts have become detached from what the community expects: that our judicial system is there to protect us, the community, the innocent bystanders, and to make dangerous offenders invading our homes accountable for their destructive behaviour. The courts appear to have become fixated on the rights and convenience of perpetrators, while victims are being treated as an afterthought. Their financial losses, emotional distress and physical suffering are compounded by delays, by adjournments and by the failure to deliver timely justice. The government cannot ignore these concerns and calls for action. Whether it wants to or not, the government must respond, not with token measures or clever spin but with genuine reform. Words like ‘tightening bail laws’ or ‘reviewing sentencing practices’ have become euphemisms for doing very little. Victorians are no longer buying it.
We are at a crossroads. If the courts refuse to take responsibility for their own decisions, the government will be forced to intervene and move. That would inevitably erode judicial independence, something no-one desires but something which becomes unavoidable when accountability collapses. Every day, poor judicial choices go unnoticed. These are decisions that quietly undermine community safety and confidence in justice. I understand it is not always possible for courts to get it right, but when we are talking about offenders that continually reoffend constantly getting bailed for the same offences, it is any wonder that crime is escalating and that public trust is – (Time expired)