@troberts oh! Maybe the bridge closure could have been our opportunity to have a ferry system!
Bus, Tram, Ferry!
If I were running #Canberra ...
I'd have a fleet of paddleboats so that workers in the parliamentary triangle could paddle across Lake Burley Griffin from Civic, whilst the main Commonwealth Avenue Bridge is having work done to it.
@troberts oh! Maybe the bridge closure could have been our opportunity to have a ferry system!
Bus, Tram, Ferry!
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT)’s daliance with Restorative Justice has been reviewed … with outstanding results. The recidivism (ie, people who have committed a crime doing it again) is down and victim well being is up.
The ACT is showing that Restorative Justice gets much better results than ratcheting up harsher and harsher penalties … I’m looking at you the rest of Australia … especially Victoria … that have swallowed the headlines from the mostly breaking dead morons at Newscorp.
If you are one of the ones taking your 30 shekels from Murdoch, then it is time to sit down in the room of mirrors and have a good long and hard look at yourself.
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It was the re-offending findings that were most startling: “All the persons responsible who completed a post-conference survey agreed or strongly agreed that, because of the conference, they were committed to not offending again; they understood how their actions affected people; and they felt that they could move forwards.
“Further, the recidivism analysis found that adult persons responsible who participated … had a lower rate of domestic or family violence reoffending than a matched control comparison group.”
One can only hope that such findings, so comprehensively made after an exhaustive study by Dr Lawler, Hayley Boxall and Christopher Dowling, are noticed by the law-and-order forces in our parliaments, who think that ever longer prison sentences are the only answer.
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https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12/brave-act-shows-restorative-justice-for-sex-offenders-can-work/
I facilitated a meeting of the ACT Greens members tonight. Three reasons it was really nice:
1. It was at my local library. We love our libraries!
2. There was a presentation on better internet safety, prepared by Gary and @MarkDeasy which included switching to Mastodon.
3. There was a presentation on social cohesion and what helps strengthen it by an ANU demographer, which was really interesting for anyone who wants a more peaceful, equal, happy community.
I facilitated a meeting of the ACT Greens members tonight. Three reasons it was really nice:
1. It was at my local library. We love our libraries!
2. There was a presentation on better internet safety, prepared by Gary and @MarkDeasy which included switching to Mastodon.
3. There was a presentation on social cohesion and what helps strengthen it by an ANU demographer, which was really interesting for anyone who wants a more peaceful, equal, happy community.
