Source Herald Sun: A SEX creep who stalked young girls in his car has been cleared to do voluntary work with children.
A tribunal overruled a government ban on the man, known only as “Mr BGD”, despite his victims being as young as 11.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal has allowed at least 29 people [...]

Source The Age: Attorney-General Rob Hulls has turned up the heat on the law-and-order debate before this year’s state election, declaring that mandatory sentencing is the ”recourse of lazy politics”.
Denouncing mandatory jail terms in the strongest terms since the opposition and Police Association last year called for fixed jail terms to tackle street violence, Mr [...]

Source ABC A killer who escaped the gallows 40 years ago has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of his ex-girlfriend in Melbourne almost two years ago.
Leigh Robinson, 62, was found guilty of murdering his former girlfriend, Tracey Greenbury, 33 as she cowered in a neighbour’s hallway in Frankston in [...]

The Herald Sun revealed yesterday that the Coalition would dump suspended sentences and home detention if it got into power – a plan condemned by the Government.
Premier John Brumby and acting Attorney-General Bob Cameron attacked the Opposition’s plan by saying “mums and dads” convicted of more than two driving-while-disqualified offences would go straight to jail.
The [...]

When Police in the State of Victoria are being put under the sort of pressure that Coroner Jamieson has put them under by suggesting that the Police in this case be charged for shooting this drug crazed lunatic, then you would have to ask why would they ever bother to get involved in any future [...]

ONE of the state’s worst pedophiles has issued a threat that he will only reform if he gets more freedom.
And experts agree Brian “Mr Baldy” Keith Jones, 62, should get more unsupervised outings in the community, despite him being rated a 54 per cent chance of attacking more children in the next 15 years [...]