Sacrificial goats live in tethered island terror

Malcolm Turnbull rejected New Zealand’s offer to resettle 150 Manus Island refugees in New Zealand. The reason is Turnbull would lose 150 out of the 600 “tethered goats” who deter faraway refugees. Once Turnbull loses all his 600 “tethered goats” in Manus, the deterrent effect is gone. No longer could Immigration Minister Peter Dutton point to his Manus hellhole. He couldn’t say: “Come to Australia and we’ll make your life hell on earth.” The more cruelty inflicted on refugees, the better the deterrence. To deter faraway refugees Dutton needs 1000 in prison camps. No refugees in prison camps is aContinue reading

High cost of retrial puts case in doubt

David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the retrial. The costs of the retrial are reported by the Canberra Times as something of the order of $27 million. The ACT Budget sets aside $5.103 million for the trial in the current year and in addition $3.028 million is allocated to the Office of the DPP, an undisclosed portionContinue reading