Even the puny Community Service had some impact but the containing them in 4 Star motels will all mod cons is as stupid as the psychologists who designed that idiotic system with the assistance of just as idiotic social experts !

Pity, some of the usual defenders of offenders chose to remain silent in the face of facts that don't suit them !
I'd like to discuss solutions instead of fostering excuses & blame the victims every time !
I'm of course referring to the social experts & general ignorant do-gooders from the Academic background Woke movement !

The lack of interest in finding solutions is disheartening. Australia as a Nation has been & still is paying huge compensation for occupying land that was roamed over by Aborigines.
Why is that the perpetrators of crime aren't being forced to pay compensation to their victims like the descendants of the colonisers have to ? It's not that land was the result of sweat & toil like products that are being stolen.
I have had cars stolen in Canberra, Sydney & on Cape York & was robbed in indigenous & non-indigenous communities yet none of the perpetrators caught up with were ever made to pay compensation.
I paid for everything I have & paid tax for it & now I still pay rates & fees on it all yet crims aren't required to pay anything !
is it only me or do others also see a discrepancy in this ? At times I really wonder whose side the Law is on !

Indyvidual,

You’ve ignored the evidence-backed solutions I already laid out earlier in this thread. This, and your apparent interest in blaming imaginary “woke elites,” suggests that you’re not really interested in discussing solutions.

If you’ve genuinely spent time in remote communities, then you’d know the problem isn’t “wokeness” or the end of National Service. It’s generational neglect, overcrowded housing, untreated trauma, addiction without services, and kids with no safe spaces or future pathways.

These problems aren’t fixed with slogans or nostalgia, they’re fixed with properly funded, community-led programs. And we already know many of those work. What’s missing is the political will to scale them.

The frustrating part isn’t that we don’t know what works. It’s that we don’t fund or scale what does work, because outrage and culture wars are cheaper than solutions.

So unless you’ve got better ideas than the ones already being trialled and studied, maybe aim your anger at the people blocking real progress - not the ones actually trying to make a difference.

It’s generational neglect, overcrowded housing, untreated trauma, addiction without services, and kids with no safe spaces or future pathways.
John Daysh,
This is the field you et al have been failing for many, many years ! You can make people move into a house but can you get them to work towards building one ?
You are typical of those who totally ignore the fact that many people are too scared of work & responsibility & much prefer the blame game. Sort of like you do !

Indyvidual,

As I suspected, you’re not here to discuss solutions. You’re just here to air grievances and wave away anything that doesn’t fit your script.