There will likely be a flood of applications to join the police force next year – in dire financial times the security of a guaranteed wage becomes the gold standard | JOHN SILVESTER
At the same time the bikie gangs will suffer income challenges as money dries up across the legal and illegal markets. Expect violence as they fight over the shrinking pie.
The use of video links in courts and the deferment of non-urgent procedural hearings should be the new normal. Instead of having hundreds of inmates transferred to courts, it is cheaper, quicker and more efficient to have the hearings inside prison. Some emergency measures must not become the new normal. Police have been given wartime powers to keep people in home detention, demand to know people’s movements and the capacity to clear public areas without question.For more than 70 years Australia has grown without a plan. Our cities became bigger, lives busier and consumer demands greater. Having pruned so heavily, we have a real chance to control the re-growth.
The dislocation of this year’s VCE should give us a chance to restart. Year 12 should not be a ridiculous, punishing marathon that leaves students no better equipped to tackle a job or studies than previous generations. Perhaps, at least in the recovery period, each side may have 10 fully professional players who double as assistant on-field coaches. To reduce wages, the selected side may drop from 22 to 20.
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