Machetes gone wild? Amnesty bins in Oz. At what societal and financial cost? 

+ Biblical amnesty

Is 53:6

Sharpen up everyone.

#amnesty #macheteban #vicgov #unmaddening 

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Links for your perusal:

Britannica 

Amnesty definition

https://www.britannica.com/topic/amnesty

Amnesty International

https://www.amnesty.org.au/what-we-do/#:~:text=When%20human%20rights%20are%20denied,Australia%20and%20across%20the%20globe.

Victoria Liberal Party

https://vic.liberal.org.au/news/2025-07-21-machete-ban-laws-must-come-to-parliament-next-week

ABC

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-06/victoria-police-illegal-knife-machete-record-haul/105383646

Australian Institute of Criminology 2011

Knife Crime

https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tbp045.pdf

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Recorder Crime- Offenders 

Reference period 2023-2024 financial year

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/crime-and-justice/recorded-crime-offenders/latest-release