The author argues that a 32-year prison sentence for a bus driver who caused a fatal crash due to prescription drug use is excessive and an injustice. They call for a judicial inquiry into the employer's role in allowing the driver to operate a bus while potentially impaired.
Now that the bus driver has received his just sentence and given his apparent poor health, he will probably never breathe free air again . However, if justice is to be truly served, there should now be a judicial enquiry into his employer. His unsuitability for his job should have been crystal clear to his employers, supervisors and his fellow drivers.
A sentence of 32 years for the driver is an extraordinary punishment for manslaughter. Remorse was clear, and the guilty plea does not appear to have been a consideration in the sentence. It must now be compared with some of the sentences for shootings and murder.
”, September 10). As one of the women featured in the article, I cannot express how difficult it has been, but to finally have our voices heard has been liberating. Our only newsagent in Cooma ran out of papers after the first few hours! This article has factually presented a massive issue that has been poisoning our communities due to a weakness in both our enforcement and judiciary systems. But most importantly it has shone a light on a dark problem.
That picture is far from the actual reality of travel in a boat from hell, being treated abysmally by people who have no regard for animal welfare and bundled off to a painful death. “Keep the sheep” is a misnomer which does not reflect the reality of what will happen to the animals. It is time to face the facts that live animal export is not a trade that any government can be proud to support and it is time to move on, with government subsidies for a more humane approach to farming animals.
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