V.i.c - Wobble
#JazzFM #Jazz #NowPlaying #Vic

I'm fucking disappointed that the Guardian isn't being better than this. I know that mainstream media is always going to be used to push political agenda, but this is just so blatantly obvious with these headlines occurring within a week of each other.

Victoria isn't in a youth crime crisis.

Youth crime happens - and we know the biggest contributor to crime is poverty (something governments can address, but refuse to).

However, funding programs to address poverty and youth crime won't get votes. Scaring voters and then "tough on crime" rhetoric about "tightening bail laws" (which will put Aboriginal people's lives at risk!) gets votes.

#journalism #Australia #Law #Legal #AustralianLegal #Youth #YouthCrime #Vic #VicPol #Crime #Criminology #CriminalJustice

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Tyler Cawthray, an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at Bond University, has charted the similar narrative of a crime crisis engulfing Queensland, where the Liberal National party won government in October after campaigning on an “adult time for adult crime” policy.

Cawthray said across New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, youth crime has generally decreased over the last decade, including during Covid.

Victoria has one of the lowest rates of youth crime in the country, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics data, with only the Australian Capital Territory and South Australia having a rate below it.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/12/bail-laws-victoria-jacinta-allan

En poco llegamos al Congreso "Sentido Comunal, Comunalismos y Decrecimiento" en #Vic
#Barcelona #Decrecimiento #degrowthnow

https://degrowth.org/projects/congreso/

Friends in Victoria:
If you need to get out and stay somewhere, we have a spare room.

Politicians are.. what? sing it with me..

..COWARDS

that's right!
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Victoria shelves plan to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14

Jacinta Allan announces policy reversal as government tries to quell community concern about youth crime

#AusPol #Australia #VicPol #Vic #Victoria #Criminology #CriminalJustice #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #JuvenileJustice #YouthCrime #MoralPanic

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/13/victoria-shelves-plan-to-raise-the-age-of-criminal-responsibility-to-14?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

A good friend sent me this link yesterday and I've just spent a very happy half hour in the virtual tour. Well worth it if you remember or are interested in the earliest home computers (especially the Spectrum obvs)

https://loadzx.com/en/

All about the latest #retrogaming smash hit, the #Vic-20 (Pen)Ultimate version of Tut-Tut

https://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/2023/07/tut-tut-tomb-raiding-on-vic-20.html

At present only available on the PENULTIMATE+2 catridge from the Future was 8bit: https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/vic20-penultimate-plus-two.html

Weekend activities ensured, thanks to the #Vic20 PENULTIMATE+2 cartridge from @futurewas8bit and @tynemouthsw.

There's a nifty new copy of mine and Dave's conversion of Tut-Tut on there, more levels than the Spectrum version plus other enhancements. #Vic 20 for the win.