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The usual suspects aren’t happy about Victoria’s crackdown on crime

31 March 2025

12:49 PM

31 March 2025

12:49 PM

After softening Victoria’s bail laws in a misguided fit of compassion that saw crime rates soar and victims pile up, Premier Jacinta Allan was forced to stumble backwards and introduce the ‘toughest bail laws in Australia’.

It was an impressive, Olympic-qualifying backflip.

‘These new laws will jolt the system,’ said the press release.

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