Got this in the mail. Not sure why the LNP is telling me all the great policies the Greens stand for. You'd think they'd want to portray the Greens in a bad light.
Transcription:
A dark green letter, with "What do the Greens really stand for?" in large letters. Under that, three separate article headlines and sources:
- Stop the Stage 3 Tax Cuts—www.greens.org.au, 16/01/23
- Greens Back Defunding Police—The Daily Telegraph, June 2020
- Abolish the Private Health Insurance Rebate—www.greens.org.au, 16/01/23
Kinda afraid to ask but I never really understood the whole 'defund the police' thing. There's definitely problems, but I think a lot of the vitiriol directed at police comes from news reports and case studies rather than statistically evident trends. Happy to be proven wrong, but I feel like there's an outcry for every police misstep because it always gets a lot of clicks as a headline - not saying there shouldn't be an outcry, but it might bias ourselves, because we seldom hear about the times where they don't misstep and actually succeed in preventing/addressing crime.
Anyway, police should do better, but defunding a public service doesn't really seem that progressive to me, and I don't think defunding them is going to help them do better.