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by Scott Morrison

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Filed under: Child Abuse, Dennis Ferguson, Homelessness, Public Housing

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There are many things that trouble me about convicted paedophile Dennis Ferguson.

Illustration: John Tiedemann, News Limited.

There is the debate about whether such offenders are ever capable of rehabilitation (I doubt it). There is the debate about whether we are doing enough to address the causal factors that hard wire this evil behaviour, transforming a person into a predator that destroys young people’s lives.

But one issue that seems to have escaped attention is how can a convicted paedophile from Queensland move to NSW and get himself a five year lease in public housing, while almost 40,000 more worthy tenants in NSW are waiting in the queue.

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Scott Morrison MP says:

03:58pm | 30/09/09

Paul, who do you think has been running planning policy in NSW for the past 14 years. It wasn’t the Libs. Bob Carr said the place was full so just go live somewhere else. I suppose that’s what you’d call vision. Read more »
Paul says:

03:22am | 30/09/09

Scott, point 4 - you starved the public housing system for years and now on the basis of one case - you claim the system is broke? How many thousands of people does the housing system work for - balance it up!The private rental market is also cactus because the… Read more »

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