I wonder if anyone finds Albo sexy hot in fluoro and a hardhat?

Animals. Not that any of this is a shock.

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Steve Price in the Hun:

Fourteen months ago, at the end of 2023, I wrote in these pages that I thought Victorians were being failed by the two most powerful people in the state.

My targets were the newly minted Premier Jacinta Allan and her Chief Commissioner of Police Shane Patton.

Fast forward to February 2025 and nothing has changed – we are still being failed. How then, as reported by the Herald Sun this week, is Commissioner Patton being lined up for a new five-year well-paid contract?

It simply beggars’ belief.

After that 2023 column, which I am told the police chief took great umbrage at, the Herald Sun sought a face to face interview between myself and the police chief. It took six months to organise, and we published the results of that sit-down in May 2024.

In hindsight – and this is hard for me to confess – I believe I was seduced by Patton’s personality and put offside by the location of the chat: Patton’s high-rise office at the top of police HQ in Spencer Street in Docklands. We even took a tour of the helipad on the roof that hosts the police helicopter for a series of pictures.

I let myself down – and the readers of this column – and many of you let me know it in the comments section. You were right and I was wrong.

In the months since, Patton has made it clear he wanted the decade-long Labor government to roll over his contract, giving him another go. I made the point back in the original criticism of the commissioner that I thought he was too close to his masters in Spring St, originally Daniel Andrews and now the Premier and his new boss, Allan.

Nothing has changed. No, in fact, policing in this state is horrendously worse. We are in the middle of a suburban crime wave that we have never witnessed before involving repeat home invasions, armed and bailed teenagers wearing masks and terrifying people in the middle of the night. And this bloke thinks he should be rewarded with another quarter of a million dollars a year for another five years.

Spare me.

Communities across the southeast and eastern suburbs have so little faith in the ability of police to protect them they are hiring private security firms to patrol their streets at night. In areas around Middle and Albert Park, on-street parking has led to criminals cherry- picking luxury vehicles to remove expensive wheels and even doors on a steal-to-order parts crime spree.

And since the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel – murdering men, women and children in the most horrific way and taking hundreds of hostages – Victoria Police have under Patton’s command allowed our city every Sunday to be taken over by Palestinian protesters, many carrying and chanting anti-Semitic slogans. These city-disrupting protest marches are allowed week after week with police unwilling to intervene.

Anti-Semitism has reached dangerous new levels culminating in the destruction of the Adass Israel Synagogue in Ripponlea back in December. It was classified as a terrorist attack and as of now there have been no arrests.

Add to that the terrifying suburban teenage crime wave, carjackings and apparent inability to stem the use of bladed weapons including machetes, plus the dangerous baiting of police in high-speed car chases. As this has unfolded with dire consequences – including the death of a man who intervened – the force has been crippled by an inability to land a pay deal until last week – and that is now in doubt with talk of a no confidence motion aimed at Patton.

Police vehicles had been smothered in industrial action graffiti and the morale of thousands of police has collapsed, with hundreds quitting.

We are told, and the numbers are fluid, but there are claims of 800 vacancies at Vic Pol and an estimated 900 police on sick leave. The industrial action lasted two years and will cost taxpayers $456 million – all under Shane Patton who wants five more years.

Going further back to the dark days of Covid and under Commissioner Patton’s command – and I asked him about this – Victoria Police were ordered to fire on ordinary Melburnians protesting Dan Andrews’ Covid lockdowns. Pepper spray and rubber bullets were used and we even had people urging non-compliance to vaccines handcuffed in their own homes.

Then, back in 2023, we had up to 43 police stations cut down on their opening hours with 23 of them locking their doors after dark and on weekends and public holidays with the excuse being that would allow a freeing up of police to the front line. Rubbish. In country Victoria it gets worse and as reported at the time, places like Portland in the west didn’t have a police station within 100km.

At that Q&A meeting we had, the Commissioner laughed at the suggestion I had made that he was seen by the wider public as being too woke. This was after he turned up at the Yoorook Truth Telling Commission set up by the Andrews government. He admitted to this group that he agreed that the police uniform represented a symbol of fear for some indigenous Victorians.

He went further and apologised unreservedly – his word – for past and present actions of the force that inflicted trauma on first nations people.

Woke? Not much, he’s not!

Look, face to face Shane presents as a good bloke and someone you’d be happy to have a beer with. You also get the impression that he would much rather be the tough copper he probably was as a junior in uniform or as a detective chasing down violent criminals.

His first five years, though, and potentially his 10 years running the force, has in my view seen him become politically too close to Labor to keep his job at the top.

Sadly, Victoria hasn’t had a great run with our top cops, including the failures of people like Christine Nixon during Black Saturday and Simon Overland and his Lawyer X involvement.

Victoria badly needs a tough, politically independent old school police chief to tackle the mess we are in.

I don’t believe that person is Shane Patton.

Hard to refute any of these issues that Price brings up.

Sounds like the inevitable sob story push back.

“Daddy, did I save my sister?” was one of the first things Trey Howard asked his father after he woke up following emergency brain surgery, Andre Howard Jr. said. He had gone out for donuts with three of his kids when the plane crashed Friday night, he said.

“Art” is money laundering, and coronating comrades, ep 8563.

This is what the Labor/LNP UNiparty and some notable minors have now done to us. In terms of free speech, we are back to becoming a penal colony.

I think it was mole yesterday who said something like “we will now be jailed for blasphemy”.

Craig Kelly

@craigkellyXXX

The so-called “hate crimes” Bill is just another Trojan Horse cunningly designed to enable big government to suppress free speech.

We already have laws against making threats of violence or inciting violence – so the provisions in this Bill “against threatening to use violence” are mere duplication – a smokescreen or Trojan Horse

But here’s what this new law actually changes;

Firstly it lowers the bar from threatening to use “VIOLENCE” to that of threatening to use “FORCE”.

Secondly, it includes special protections for groups distinguished by “political opinions”

Thirdly, it removes the “good faith” defence – so if you engage in commentary about matters of public interest, in an honest attempt to point out what you believe are errors in government policy or to try and achieve democratic changes in law – that’s no longer a lawful exception.

And fourthly, it makes a jail sentence mandatory – so even in the most innocent of cases, where it’s a mere technical breach of the law, the courts can’t give you warning -they must sentence you to jail.

So if you now say something like;

“We must fight against the totalitarian aims of the Marxists that have infiltrated our bureaucracies and want to censor free speech, sell us out to the globalists and force Australians to undergo compulsory medical interventions”

By saying “we must fight” could easily be deemed as “threatening force”.

And as “Marxists” are a group “distinguished by political opinion”

And because could then argue that by allowing free speech “threatens the peace, order and good government” – exactly the argument they successfully used during Covid – then I’d be guilty of an offence under this act for engaging in ‘hate speech’.

And the courts would be forced to jail me for 7 years.

So with the potential of facing 7 years in jail for expressing a political opinion, this law becomes an iron boot stamping on freedom of speech.

AND TO THINK THE LIBERAL PARTY (with the exception of Alex Antic) VOTED FOR THIS, as did Labor, the Greens & Teals.

And ONE NATION didn’t even try and put up some amendments (such as deleting the inclusion of “political opinion”) and ABSTAINED.

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