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Newly elected Liberal MPs Chris Crewther and Evan Mulholland used their maiden speeches to the Victorian parliament this week to call for a suite of changes to keep people out of prison and give them a “second chance” at life.
By making jury trials obsolete, plea bargaining allows the American criminal legal system to run on autopilot.
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The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal is currently “crippled”, and urgent action is required, writes Dr Matt Bach MP. Contrary to the prevailing academic orthodoxy, lower courts and tri
Lib MP takes swipe at party's disastrous 2018 election campaign We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement A rising Liberal backbench MP has criticised his party's 2018 "law and order" campaign that ended in a catastrophic electoral defeat for the Coalition, warning about the dangers of populist tough-on-crime policies. Eastern Metropolitan MP Matthew Bach, who replaced Mary Wooldridge in State Parliament's upper house last year, took a direct swipe at the law and order policies that placed punitive measures over reform...