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02-17-2000
AAP National News Wire Round Up for Midday, Feb 17
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The Federal Government is under mounting pressure to intervene in mandatory sentencing
regimes, with retired judges and a Liberal backbencher joining calls for the laws to be
scrapped.

Former High Court chief justice Sir GERARD BRENNAN says the mandatory sentencing laws
in Western Australia and the Northern Territory are immoral.

And a second former High Court judge, Sir RONAD WILSON, has slammed the laws, saying
the ...

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