Meet NT Judge Greg Borchers.
He's already been sanctioned for comments including telling the traumatised 13 year old son of a murdered woman that he was taking advantage of his mother's death to play truant and commit petty crime, and that "the community can't afford you".
But it seems to have only riled him up.
Today this fine specimen of the legal fraternity has been reported as comparing an Indigenous offender to a "primitive person", telling an Indigenous mother she probably got drunk on pension day and “abandoned your kids in that great Indigenous fashion”, and pondering that “One day we might read some literature, some important anthropological literature, we might learn something about what’s called Indigenous laissez-faire parenting and I invite you to do so, not that it will help your practice in any way, but it might get you to understand why it is that people abandon their children on such a regular basis.”
Even in the NT and even with the racism that goes on in this country, this guy is something else. And what he should be made very soon is something else without a job.
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