I think we did this wrong, we should have made them prime minister and let them run the country
That’s how we do it here in the US of A, and let me tell you, things are going just guh-reat.
You wouldn’t believe how great, no one’s ever heard of how great we’re doing here. Just last week, god called, asked “how are we doing so great?”, I said “I dontknow, I looked at the country as was like, tiger, elephant, giraffe, and then they gave me a candy, told me I was smarter person in the world”. So great folks.
I now fear albino sexual predators.
You should not judge a book by its cover, but jeesus christ!
Oh yeah. Now THAT is a creep.
The article mentions it in passing, but I want to point out that the accusations came to light in 2021 and he was kicked out of the Liberal party (they’re the mainstream conservative party in Australia FYI), then suspended from the NSW Parliament when he was charged in 2022, but he was still re-elected in 2023 despite criminal charges hanging over his head. Even after he was convicted he took legal action to fight against expulsion from the Parliament rather than resigning like any MP with a shred of integrity would do, and only finally resigned literally hours before the expulsion vote was to be held (which was definitely going to pass).
Why would being legally blind affect someones sentencing for rape? Their vision was too blurry to realize they were trying to insert their penis into a dude?
If his defence presented it as a mitigating factor for sentencing then the judge is saying that they took it into account so that he doesn’t have grounds for appeal on the basis that his sentencing didn’t account for his disability. Just because the judge took it into account doesn’t mean that he got a lesser sentence because of it.
Do you need any grounds for appeal?
Couldn’t they just appeal regardless and e.g. argue the judge didn’t take this (in their view) mitigating factor sufficiently into account for sentencing?
