Bring back 19th century British justice -

hang em and hang em high.

Get a Belgian mallinot.
The Sudanese are very brave against unarmed civilians .
Not so much against an attack dog

aquascoot wrote on Aug 18^th, 2025 at 12:38pm:



We don't know if they were Sudanese.
No descriptions have been released -
it's all top secret.


https://www.noticer.news/melbourne-kew-east-machete-attack/

A 24-year-old man and two teenagers, aged 17 and 16, have all been charged with aggravated home invasion, intentionally cause serious injury, recklessly cause serious injury, four counts of recklessly cause injury, false imprisonment, theft of mobile phones, and theft of motor vehicle.

All were remanded in custody, with the 24-year-old man due to face Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on November 5, and the teenagers due to face a children’s court at a later date.

CCTV obtained by 7 News shows the alleged offenders fleeing from police, who are still searching for two more males.



Boroondara Detective Sergeant Leanne Trussler said home invaders were “not used to people fighting back, and this homeowner fought back”.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” she said.

“This is awful, a family, two adults, two children aged 2 and 3 and the grandparents are sleeping their home at nearly 4 o’clock in the morning, the house is secure, they’re meant to be safe, and they’ve woken up and been treated like this.

“It’s their home, or their castle as they say. You should be safe, you shouldn’t be disrespected in your home and having people come in at that time of night and doing that to your family. I don’t know how I’d be if that was my family.”

The attack is the latest in a series of alleged incidents involving machetes in Victoria despite Premier Jacinta Allan banning their sale and installing 40 “machete bins” across the state at a cost of $13 million.

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Jun 25^th, 2025 at 8:03pm:


I say it WOULD be different if government  guaranteed housing, education and above poverty employment for everyone, as more or less existed in the post war Keynesian welfare state/deficit spending era.

I reckon social breakdown is well underway in modern Oz, after 4 decades of Neoclassical economic orthodoxy has resulted in a housing crisis and soaring inequality.

Meanwhile comfortably stupid neoliberal economists like Dannielle Woods are saying "change comes slowly" - while people are sleeping in the streets and homelessness is increasing.

Deplorable.

Bobby. wrote on Aug 18^th, 2025 at 9:33pm:


It does mean we should follow a 'middle way', in which public sector money for the collective good is created in the nation's treasury, alongside private sector money which is created in private banks  for individuals competing for private gain.

Forcing government  to rely wholly on private sector money - by taxing or borrowing, is creating the soaring inequality we see around us, as the economy churns out billionaires alongside homeless people.

More gang crime:

https://www.police.vic.gov.au/five-charged-following-aggravated-burglaries-and-p...




Published:

Tuesday 19 August 2025 at 12:30 am

Mill Park Divisional Response Unit officers have charged five teenagers following a series of alleged armed robberies across metropolitan Melbourne yesterday.

The alleged linked incidents include:

Five males, allegedly armed with machetes, entered a supermarket on Golden Banksia Drive in Officer and stole cash and cigarettes about 12.20pm. They fled in a silver Subaru Forester.

The group entered a supermarket on the corner of Pink Bill and Timbertop boulevards in Officer, where they allegedly threatened a staff member, then stole cigarettes and cash about 12.30pm.

A group of teens allegedly threatened staff at a supermarket on Gilbert Road in Preston about 1.25pm. They left empty handed.

The teenagers allegedly entered another supermarket on McDonalds Road in Epping and threatened staff about 1.50pm. Nothing was stolen.

Officers spotted the Subaru Forester, used in the alleged offending, on Edgars Road in Wollert a short time later.

The car was pursued by police through multiple suburbs including Epping, Thomastown, Rosanna and Heidelberg.

The Subaru collided with two vehicles at the intersection of Manningham and Bulleen roads in Bulleen.

There were no physical injuries during the incidents.
The five occupants allegedly fled on foot and were all arrested nearby.

A 16-year-old boy from the Dandenong area was charged with theft of motor vehicle, handle stolen goods, armed robbery (x3) and attempted armed robbery (x2)

A 17-year-old boy from the Casey area was charged with theft of motor vehicle, handle stolen goods, armed robbery (x3), attempted armed robbery (x2), negligent driving while pursued by Police and unlicenced driving.

A 16-year-old from the Cardinia area was charged with theft of motor vehicle, handle stolen goods, armed robbery (x3) and attempted armed robbery (x2)

A 16-year-old boy from the Dandenong area was charged with theft of motor vehicle, handle stolen goods, armed robbery (x3) and attempted armed robbery (x2)

They were remanded to appear at a children’s court at a later date.

A 14-year-old boy from the Dandenong area was charged with theft of motor vehicle, handle stolen goods, armed robbery (x3) and attempted armed robbery (x2)
He was bailed to appear at a children’s court at a later date.

The Subaru was allegedly stolen during an aggravated burglary in Wheelers Hill on 7 August.

Homelessness and poverty are not excuses for robbery with violence and arson.
Australia went through the Depression with little variation in the violent crime rate, yet the number of homeless was high and the number of poor, as a proportion of the population, much higher than it is today.
My own family was relatively well off, Dad worked on the NSWGR snd for a time worked one week off and one week on [his income was effectively cut in half], he and thousands like him didn’t turn to violent crime.
So there is no excuse especially in these days of Government support.

I’m all for the rope when conviction is beyond doubt.
The number of people murdered by reoffenders is exceeded by the number of people wrongly executed.