Community safety requires competent law-making by parliament, robust law enforcement by government and wise decision-making from the judiciary. If one or more of those three arms falter then our community is unnecessarily endangered.
Last month’s decision in the Supreme Court of Western Australia is a standout example of this type of governance failure and unsurprisingly there have been calls for WA Attorney- General John Quigley to intervene in Edward Latimer’s release from prison.
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