Liberal-National Government moves to scrap Labor’s discount for criminals
Source: Western Australia. Attorney General. Media Release
"The State Government has introduced into Parliament new legislation to scrap the former government’s laws which gave criminals a one-third discount off their sentences. Attorney General Christian Porter said the scrapping of the discount via the Sentencing Legislation (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Bill 2008 was the first critical step in giving Western Australians the justice system they have demanded for some time. “The previous Labor government’s ‘one-third automatic discount for offenders’ was a law which undermined community confidence in the justice system, eroded the authority of sentencing judges and magistrates and resulted in sentencing practices which failed to deter offenders or punish them adequately,” Mr Porter said."