@liamvhogan I came across her a couple of times when she was a staffer in the federal parliament, and that’s the sum total of what I can say about that.
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Every now and then I wonder what ever happened to Helen Dale. I know sooner or later she’ll wind up back in the public eye -
Unpopular opinions I hold: a lot of the arguments around ‘restorative justice’, which aim to centre the victim(s) of crimes and focus on the harms to networks of social relationships, owe more than they realise to very old cultures of private vendetta ...@liamvhogan Also fun fact that Braithwaite came to reintegrative shaming via corporate and white collar crime, and its use in juvenile justice and family group conferences came a long time after that.
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Unpopular opinions I hold: a lot of the arguments around ‘restorative justice’, which aim to centre the victim(s) of crimes and focus on the harms to networks of social relationships, owe more than they realise to very old cultures of private vendetta ...@liamvhogan I think most people who work in restorative justice have no idea how it’s actually supposed to work. I worked in the same department as John Braithwaite for a while, who did most of the theory behind what is now restorative justice, and if you could say one thing about Braithwaite is he did his homework and he knew the historical context.
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Via @vwdasher this thing looks sick as hell. And it’s a real shame there’s no way it could ever be road registrable because otherwise it would be a huge earner for Pickles Auctions in about five to ten years time@liamvhogan Particularly if they leave the mini gun on the top.
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Tiny toy chainsaws for the community engagement kit.@liamvhogan “Braydyn, stop chainsawing your sister!”
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I’ve been thinking on and off for days about what possible civic planning or public health initiatives could be done off the back of asking everyone their sexuality, and I keep coming up blank.@liamvhogan We’re one of the few countries in the world that enforces (albeit lightly) compulsory voting. The political philosophers have a term for this but my 8am brain can’t recall what it is.
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I’ve been thinking on and off for days about what possible civic planning or public health initiatives could be done off the back of asking everyone their sexuality, and I keep coming up blank.@futzle This isn’t an argument for or against the use of certain question, just noting that it’s the one data source governments and other policy makers have to make all sort of policy decisions.
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I’ve been thinking on and off for days about what possible civic planning or public health initiatives could be done off the back of asking everyone their sexuality, and I keep coming up blank.@futzle “civic planning” is the sort of boilerplate people use to describe how the Census is used but it’s used for lots of things in the policy world because you can get data down to fairly small geographies. Lots of social research uses it – it’s used to analyse election results, for example because you can get characteristics of a small number of voters (pretty roughly, admittedly, by matching polling places to SA1s). At my last job barely a week went by when I wasn’t using Census data for something.
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It’s almost unheard of these days to read an article about the media and smile, but this long interview with the new people who are running The Onion did that for me. https://www.theverge.com/24225592/the-onion-new-owners-print-newspaper-digital-media-...It’s almost unheard of these days to read an article about the media and smile, but this long interview with the new people who are running The Onion did that for me. https://www.theverge.com/24225592/the-onion-new-owners-print-newspaper-digital-media-gawker-ben-collins-decoder-interview