The peak body representing businesses in the Northern Territory is backing a push for more community-led programs as alternatives to incarceration, amid an increase in people being sentenced to time behind bars.
NTAJA governance committee co-chair Olga Havnen said tough-on-crime approaches had failed to address the issue in the NT across decades. Ms Havnen said the results of the survey of Territorians found an overwhelming majority of people in the NT wanted alternatives to jailing. The call for more alternative programs has been backed by the Northern Territory's Chamber of Commerce, with its chief operating officer Nicole Walsh saying it was important business was part of a community-led approach to the issue.
Vote no.
Aboriginal youth only respond to force
Common sense tells us it's better to spend 40 grand on training for those with nothing than a hundred grand as a detainee.
How disgusting. Not a fortnight after a young man was murdered.
and there we have it permission to offend without consequence what could possibly go wrong...
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