playing politics with "law and order"

A good piece of writing in The Age today from Josh Gordon putting the law and order hoopla into some sort of perspective read it here .
It's good to see some sense in the broadsheet media after hearing of Baillieu's silly plans to;

• lock up minors
• anti swearing laws
• community survey on sentencing (online mind you)

Let's just hope that this newly elected Government is merely running interference to disguise its modest achievements elsewhere, and once it settles properly into power some sense and proportion will prevail? Indeed lets hope!