I’ve admired Les Twentyman’s work for quite a while and am delighted that his health is on the improve. I certainly hope that he was misquoted, or his quotes were taken out of context by The Age this morning.
The Age reported on a police report that showed that the majority of the violence in the city is carried out by people from Melbourne’s northern and western suburbs. Twentyman is quoted as saying ”Safe Labor seats never really get money spent on them. It is always marginal seats that get the money tipped into them.”
Give me a break! What has money got to do with the fundamental fact it is not OK to be knifing people and belting the living daylights out of them? It’s got nothing to do with money. It’s got everything to do with being decent citizens.
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totally agree with you Pauly, also had/have a lot of time for the guy.
Come on Paul, you know it is more complicated than that. You know that people can be lead down a good path or a bad path based on their upbringing and circumstances.
Of course it is not okay to be knifing people and belting the living daylights out of them. But can anything be done to reduce the number of people who grow up believing that they have to do that, or that it is okay to do that? Unfortunately money is one of many inputs into this. Money affects the circumstances of the parents, and the parents are a huge influence on the behaviour of the child.