The SMH emphasizes that post-sentence preventive detention depends on fraught predictions of future behavior, challenging the tenets of the criminal justice system. Therefore, independent safeguards for extra terrorist detention should be put in place.
The Herald has reluctantly accepted that indefinite sentencing for the most dangerous convicted terrorists may be needed to protect the community.
But it says the Australian people expect significant judicial, practical and independent safeguards of the sort we demanded for control orders for terrorism suspects, and the soon-to-be-revived plans to reduce the allowable age for them to 14.
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