With respect to the 'soft sentencing' that Dutton was talking about in Victoria, check out this pearler from the Children's Court concerning a 16 year old sudanese mongrel:
>On 19 January, 2015 he was sentenced, without conviction to a six month probation order for offences which included seven charges of burglary, two charges of attempted burglary, six charges of theft, and one charge of robbery. On 10 August, 2015 he was sentenced, without conviction to a 12 month Youth Supervision Order for offences including four charges of burglary, six charges of theft and other dishonesty offences, committed in breach of his probation order. On 2 November, 2015 he was sentenced, without conviction, to a further three month Youth Supervision Order, on charges of entering a building with intent to steal and theft. On 15 August, 2016 he was again placed on a probation order, without conviction, for offences including one charge of burglary.
>On 2 November, 2016 he was sentenced to a further 12 month Youth Supervision Order, without conviction, on five charges of burglary, a charge of attempted burglary, two charges of theft and two charges of theft of a motor vehicle. A was subject to this 12 month Youth Supervision Order at the time of the alleged offending on 12 and 14 January, 2017. Subsequent to the alleged offending, A was sentenced to a further 12 month Youth Supervision Order on 19 January, 2017 for offences including burglary, attempted aggravated burglary, theft of a motor vehicle and theft.
While on a probation order, again, he did the following:
Armed Robbery – two charges;
Robbery – two charges;
Possess an unregistered handgun;
Assault with a weapon;
Intentionally causing injury;
Unlawful assault – two charges;
Theft – two charges;
Make threats to kill;
Common law assault – two charges;
Use of a dangerous article;
Criminal damage.
That finally got him shipped off to the county court (so he could do more than two years max).