Greens to introduce bill Repealing Mandatory Minimum Sentences

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Lines attributable to Senator Faruqi: "The eleventh-hour dirty deal between Labor and the Liberals to add mandatory minimum sentencing to the Hate Crimes Bill was an absolute disgrace. Mandatory minimum sentencing was bad law then, and it is bad law now. “Mandatory minimum sentencing was rammed through in a highly charged political atmosphere based on a caravan plot which the AFP immediately knew was a hoax.

“There was no justification for mandatory minimum sentencing in the first place, but now the truth is public, there is even more reason to repeal these provisions right now. “Unjust, unfair and discriminatory mandatory sentencing provisions that disproportionately affect marginalised communities and don’t work to make the community safe should not be in our laws a day longer.

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