"She was full of life. She was a great listener, a great friend, a great mom. Full of life,” Michelle Mae’s mother told the Dispatch in 2019 about her daughter. “She wanted to see her kids go off to school or get married and have babies. It was something that she was looking forward to because she knew how much I loved being a grandma.”
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Opposition leader Elizabeth Lee has released a draft bill that would increase penalties for offences committed in the context of domestic or family violence. Photo: Michelle Kroll.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has warned that sentences for domestic violence offences are too lenient in the ACT, putting the Territory out of step with most other Australian jurisdictions.
Aggravated offences that increase the penalty for offending in a family violence context were necessary to tackle the “evil” crime, deputy director of public prosecutions Anthony Williamson wrote in a letter to the chairperson of the Victims Advisory Board, Richard Glenn.
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Last spring, just after schools pivoted to virtual learning, dozens of parents from the School District of Lancaster signed an op-ed calling attention to the plight of our district in light of the pandemic (âPublic school funding at risk during pandemic,â April 25 LNP | LancasterOnline).
In February 2020, School District of Lancaster Superintendent Damaris Rau announced that our district was facing a $10 million deficit. Knowing that communities of color would bear the brunt of the pandemic, we feared the impending wreckage. Accordingly, we asked our lawmakers to fund our public schools fairly and adequately.
A year later, our call is more pressing than ever.
Chief Police Officer Neil Gaughan. Photo: Michelle Kroll.
Members of the Weston Creek community have raised concerns about why it took a murder in the area for police to start patrolling again as debate was reignited over policing resources in the ACT.
Murrumbidgee MLA Jeremy Hanson said members of his community in Weston Creek and Molonglo said they had not seen a police presence in the area for many years until the skate park murder at the end of last year.
“Anecdotally, there seems to be an issue with incidents in my neck of the woods,” Mr Hanson said during Committee Hearings on Thursday (25 February).