Current Predicament
How we doing InLeo I hope you have all been safe and well. A few have headed over to my partner and I's social media accounts and for those that don't know, my partner is a Registered Nurse and was successfully elected twice by our community to local government to represent our community on local matters.
We don't hail from political royalty and sit outside that bubble, we are members of a political party but that has been to help drive policy development with our core focus around working class and mum and dad struggles and representation.
We come from a blue collar workers background not wealth or strong networks outside of our community. Although we have been active in advocacy and raising community issues and driving reform.
A bit of background
So recently we have seen a spate of increased youth crime insofar that kids are quite literally hacking themselves to death with Machetes. I was a member of the Labor party and worked my way up the chain over the years to no issue. But recently something changed as new leadership came in.
In 2023 I successfully moved a motion to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 in the first term of government and 14 in the next term (current). The motion was carried and rolled out.
while the media reported it as youth criminals will avoid jail for their crimes. That is not the truth as through data we found that a lot of the kids committing the crimes were repeat offenders with many already in the care of the state. This showed that the state wasn't actually addressing core issues and instead just locked kids up.
The problem when you do that, you ignore the issue and you create a hardened youth that becomes a hardened more aggressive adult criminal.
So to challenge that, raising the age means the Government would have to roll out actual programs and diversion initiatives to ensure the kids did not go down that route.
Incoming Leader Backtracks
So the incoming leader back tracked on my work and defied the unanimous support of the Labor party and Unions I worked with to deliver the outcome. Unfortunately it wasn't that easy and we put up a fight and rejected her action to retain the motion and commitment as Victoria needs a true path forward to address the youth crime issue.
However, the current leadership was worried about the burden of cost to actually deliver on what was and is needed to address the matters. This is where I believe it began to go sideways for me.
Still confused about what has happened
So please be aware that these are my political thoughts and opinions and it will be vague as some matters are currently before the courts so I can not discuss them and I still am not entirely sure of what has occurred or why, other than I have been politically targeted as has my partner and my life turned upside down by the party I once supported.
I found myself thrust before the courts for applications on personal safety intervention orders and matters and incidents that did not occur which do amount to Perjury a crime. The issue I faced is that Victoria Police locally are failing to act and will not lay charges.
I have since received confirmation from Crime Stoppers that I and my partner are a victim of crime.
The PSIO's have seen me charged for political activity and I am now on bail, I have been defamed nationally with The Age publishing false and defaming material across my country about myself and my partner.
Fortunately the judicial system is not corrupted in Australia and I have been found innocent in one of the PSIOs (two politicians did this). With the other one a magistrate seeking Victoria Police to loosen restrictions so I can enjoy my domestic rights which are rights enshrined in Australian Common Law and recognised by the courts. Victoria Police have refused to do so.
My Partner Brought into it
So the overlap is incidents have occurred to my partner where she has allegedly been informed they "Do Not Want An Abbo On Council" referring to her Aboriginal heritage. The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission did engage and tried to resolve but matters became combative.
Government Body Breaks The Law
Tensions escalated as my own council decided to attack my partner and I publicly using government comms and official channels, something that has never been seen done in Australia before. Even going as far as publishing confidential information relating to current legal proceedings and a lot of it untrue adding to defamation.
The council refuses to apologise and remains committed to retaining the publication.
All while the PSIO has me effectively on home arrest and unable to leave my home or even work which is seeing me and my family fall further into debt as we fight the allegations, charges and misconduct in the courts.
I am wearing thin, breaking down and have not much left and I haven't even mentioned how the council allegedly met with my home builders to blackmail my partner out of her complaint which is all on the public record.
So yes, things have been hard and this is just a brief overview of matters I can report on via this media channel without impacting legal proceedings as it is public knowledge.
How this ends I have no idea but I know I am breaking down and struggling. I also feel like I have failed as a father to my 8 and 5 year old children as I tried to ensure they didn't have a life like mine and here they are being impacted by the Government.
This is the racism people talk about not the words or the blaming of communities but the racism undertaken by Governments. As for the expulsion from Labor it was done a week out from Vic State Conference allegedly so the premier could revoke the raising the age of criminal responsibility which she did. It is now only to 12.
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