So young guys would be divided into three, more or less equal, groups:

Those who can afford to flee the country before turning 18;
those who would commit suicide to escape the camps;
and the roughies who like that sort of things, who see it as fun, who would use the opportunity to gang and embark together from these camps on raid excursions, looting, raping, breaking, burning, harrassing and injuring.

These will be the remaining young generation in Australia to do all the work as the rest of us get too old: poor human quality and much fewer in numbers.

You will have lots of blood on your hands, Indyvidual, but besides that, who will nurse you when you are too old and can no longer take care of yourself? I hope you die painfully of bed-sores because there is nobody left to change your soiled sheets and turn you over.

Yuytsu,
What wharped mentality you have !

Are Paul1405,Yuyutsu & Aidan et al really the future thinkers ?
Nothing short of terrifying and, they're the ones calling Putin a Dictator ?
Are they products of modern Australian University learning ?

Hey indyvidual,

"I had my car side window smashed in a few days ago & left the car doors ajar but nothing appears to be missing. the owners of the other cars broken into said the little craps were "only" looking for change & cigarettes."

And see there you have it.

When I was pretty young, maybe grade 6, I lived near a golf course.
I'd swim across a stagnant moat to get on the course and then fish golf balls out by feeling around for them with my toes in the mud to find them, take them back home to clean them up and then head down to the gold course car park to sell them back to the golfers, but there was a level of danger, like the potential of being hit in the head with a golf ball danger. Not sure mum knew how dangerous it actually was. we'd have to hide under the little wooden bridges when golfers were teeing off and walking through with their golf buggies, lest we'd risk being hit or they'd dob us in and/or the coursey would come after us.
$10 or so was good money for a 11 year old back in 1984 and I felt like a little entrepreneur.
By the next year or so I started smoking, Peter Jackson 15's - 87 cents, buy them over the counter at Coles aged 12.
They didn't ask for ID back then.

The cheapest price of smokes now is about $25
How else do poor kids from homes with single mums get that money without stealing?
Any of you seen any lemonade stands lately?
- I'm not defending them for breaking into cars just pointing out the problem.
Once you start stealing, you keep stealing.
It only gets worse.

I don't know all the details about the crimes mentioned in this thread, but I very much doubt longer sentences would help. Those who commit those crimes don't think they'll be caught (and in the case of manslaughter, don't think they'll kill or even injure anyone else), so the sentences won't have much of a deterrent effect.

And (Armchair) even if they receive no punishment at all, those who commit manslaughter are likely to WISH TO GOD that they had never done what they did. But if there's police brutality, the people quickly get the idea that the police are their enemy. It's very highly counterproductive.

We need to foster genuine respect rather than relying on fear for everything.
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Yuyutsu,
There'd be a lot more than three groups, and the number resorting to suicide (though significant) would be far less than you think - many more would resentfully endure it. There would also be those who go on the run, and those who mutiny.

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Indy,
Paul's too old for me to regard him as a future thinker. I'm not sure about Yuyutsu.

As for me, I did study Civil Engineering in an Australian university in the 21st century, so I suppose I could be classified as a product of modern Australian University learning, although I'm pretty sure I had the thinking skills you lack even before I went to Uni.

But I really don't understand what has made you so mentally feeble that you're terrified of what I say!
Is it because you fear admitting you're wrong? I notice you consistently fail to properly engage with criticism of what you say, and instead resort to platitudes and ad hominems.

Aidan,
University & associated jargon fall way, way short of making you a thinker ! It's obvious that you've convinced yourself as being a thinker, alas.
Civil engineers ? Ha,ha very funny ! I have had my fair share of dealings with them. It might be worthwhile for you not to forget (not my words) that it was amateurs who built the Ark & experts who built the TITANIC !
For some deluded reason University has indoctrinated simple people to believe that they're just so valuable to society. Wrong and, proven wrong countless times !