GCBRONCO
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Jason Simmons
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Great film. Watched it again a couple of weeks back…
Kaz
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On 9 news some lawyer said the punishment was normal for those types of offence.
Jarrod Bleijie was chest beating.
Deb Frecklington looking into a change of law blsh blah blah
Jarrod Bleijie was chest beating.
Deb Frecklington looking into a change of law blsh blah blah
I bleed Maroon
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- Apr 17, 2013
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The typical talking heads are already calling for the NRL to make up the difference on his punishment. Some fuckwit on 2GB called for him to miss the whole of 2025. He'll be lucky to have a career that spans 11 to 12 years and he should lose one of them because of an off season incident.....
These ***** will always hate our guts, folks. Revel in it.
These ***** will always hate our guts, folks. Revel in it.
Scorchie
NRL Captain
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The law was applied, consistently. That he's a Bronco doesn't change the law.
The NRL and the Club, will impose their own penalty for the 'disrepute' Ezra has brought the game under. That'll be five to six figures and a 4-6 game suspension.
The NRL and the Club, will impose their own penalty for the 'disrepute' Ezra has brought the game under. That'll be five to six figures and a 4-6 game suspension.
Xzei
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went to court got his punishment if they have a problem with the outcome take it up with their local member imo
Jason Simmons
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Only one law they need to change - the Penalties and Sentences Act. Which is responsible for all the piss-weak sentences the “learned” judiciary choose to hand down.
Except they won’t.
They will do what our Governments always do, increase the maximum penalty and then claim they are “tough on crime”.
Knowing full well of course that the Penalties and Sentences Act prevents the maximum sentence EVER being imposed, except in the most extreme circumstances.
If they were serious they would legislatively impose minimum mandatory sentences so the judiciary couldn’t weasel their way out of imposing an actual sentence.
But they won’t. Even old Joh didn’t and if he wouldn’t, no modern day politician will.
Skathen
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It's also frankly really expensive to jail people. So there's a counter force at work also - by imposing mandatory minimums, you swell the jail population which costs the government money - at a rough cost of $422 per prisoner per day.
Further, there are also cases where people have mitigating circumstances, or the punishment doesn't really fit - but with no discretion in sentencing, can result in unduly harsh scenarios - like mandatory minimums for theft and a kid steals a pencil because he's from a dirt poor family and needs one for school.
As far as drugs go - https://www.acic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-03/NWDMP Report 18_1.PDF A lot of people don't realise how prevalent drug use is within our community. If police got very serious and pulled a sudden citywide blitz on many major roads at peak hour on a work day, you'd be dealing with thousands or potentially tens of thousands of detections.
People get really bent out of shape about the weirdest stuff. Society has a drug problem, it's not just Ezra.
