Feb 21, 2023
If being tough on crime worked,
Attorney-General of the Northern Territory Chansey Paech says, then
Australia would be the safest country in the world. What is needed,
he argues, is better justice reinvestment and more substantive
consultation — such as through the Voice — so that First Nations
communities can be given a seat at the table and taken off the
menu.
On this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy
welcomes NT A-G Chanston “Chansey” Paech to discuss his life and
upbringing in the Top End, how his early life has informed his
perspective and politics, the need to bring all Australians on the
journey of sociocultural change, the pertinent suggestions from the
Uluru Statement from the Heart that need implementing, and why the
proposed referendum to institute a Voice to Parliament is so
critical.
A-G Paech also talks about the passage of legislation in the NT to
raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 years of age — the
first jurisdiction in Australia to do so — and what other law
reform he has planned for the Top End, how he engages with other
attorneys-general on such issues, the need for more Koori courts,
the place of the legal profession in supporting various reforms,
the experience of Territorians during the age of coronavirus, and
what the legal market in the NT has to look forward to moving
forward.
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