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Oh. Not one person?
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He's mad. He's bad. He's MaynHARD!
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What happened to them?
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You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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Thanks for outlining all the parties, David, despite the obvious bias.

I look forward to putting the Victorian Socialists and Greens last ;)
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No worries, Jezza! I was hoping that people of different political persuasions would be able to find some use in it. 8)
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David, you'll be pleased to know that, as an expression of his passion, Jezza intends to write "Go Pies!" on his ballot paper.
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Now the LNP want to bring in SS Type Boot camps for young offenders. That's never worked anywhere. :lol: :lol: :lol:

All their eggs in the Crime basket and hoping they are on a winner.
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SS? It's pretty ignorant and offensive to liken a boot camp to the Schutzstaffel.

A boot camp is meant to be an alternative to prison or just releasing these kids back into their shithouse environments like our current crop of activist judges like to do. Not sure on the merits of the idea, but the whole 'Nazi' thing is getting pretty tired.
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I don't Believe the Promises by Pollies Pr-Election as it's just Talk and not much else
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The whole Boot Camp thing is tired and won't fly.

In the absence of details, the concept is hard physical training and enforced discipline. The term is used freely by personal trainers as a name for exercise groups but the origin I believe is from the US Marines.

It just sounds like a version of prison with enforced exercise, but I can't see it could have any teeth. What do you do with a 17 year old who says "far Kew" to participating once they're there?

Deprive them of food?
Put them in solitary?
Shoot them?

The concept of teenagers involuntarily participating in such things as a way to turn them into worthwhile citizens is straight from the 1950's and just won't work in 2018.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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stui magpie wrote:The whole Boot Camp thing is tired and won't fly.

In the absence of details, the concept is hard physical training and enforced discipline. The term is used freely by personal trainers as a name for exercise groups but the origin I believe is from the US Marines.

It just sounds like a version of prison with enforced exercise, but I can't see it could have any teeth. What do you do with a 17 year old who says "far Kew" to participating once they're there?

Deprive them of food?
Put them in solitary?
Shoot them?

The concept of teenagers involuntarily participating in such things as a way to turn them into worthwhile citizens is straight from the 1950's and just won't work in 2018.
My understanding is it's a diversion type program, like they can choose to do the boot camp with its exercise, discipline, better food etc or go to juvi/prison.
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