Indy's, looking for another Old Joh to lead him around by the nose, blindfolded, while picking his pocket.

As our current court system is not working very well why don't we consider other methods of justice? Methods used by the First Nations people of Canada seem to work very well. Their method is that the offender meets the entire aggrieved family (do not like the word victim}. At this meeting it is explained how the act has affected the family and why; the perpetrator needs to understand how their action/s have affected others and this can be discussed all the way through. If the family feels a jail term is warranted they can then explain why and submit this to the magistrates. Frequently issues can be decided in hoouse and it is a win/win.
We could always give this a go. You never know, it may just work. Lessens people being jailed etc at tax payers expense.

Sandic 49 welcome, not going to stop using the word victim any time soon
Not sure the rapist of a seven year old girl meeting the aggrieved family/victims parents would work
Unless they had knives
Room exists, heaps of it, for better outcomes and talking about other methods is worthwhile

I have questions for the experts, giving statements like //As our current court system is not working very well//
Some stats; The prison population at 1st June 2018 was 42878 in Australia, 66% (28,457) were sentenced, and 33% (14,349) were unsentenced. That is a 39% increase since 2013.

Please tell me of the 28,457 sentenced, in how many cases was the custodial sentence manifestly inadequate. Of the 14,349 awaiting sentencing in how cases do you expect a manifestly inadequate sentence will be imposed.
At the same time there were 69,397 persons serving community based orders, of those how many do you believe should be serving a custodial sentence?

What I will agree with is that in certain serious cases there should be no option of parole. The fact is there is not a huge number of serious offenders out on parole. The vast majority of parolees are petty criminals. Petty criminals on parole do commit crimes, but not at the same rate as those who have completed their full sentence.

Paul my thoughts are in part drive by these events
Police officer drives person guilty of assault home, that man kills another
54 year old on bail sexual assaults [rapes] 7 year old
police man gives man subject to AVO address of the protected person
Burk street assassin had lost passport and was known to be a danger
Car maniac [said quite wrongly on social media to be Muslim] had been pursued by police all morning before murdering those people
time after time domestic violence victims killed by the person they needed protection from.

So Victoria is not stupid
nicknamenick,
Being brainwashed & full of idealism is akin to stupid & perhaps even worse.