Population ponzi drives police recruitment boom

Tuesday 6 December 2016

Back in October, Ron Iddles, a former homicide detective and current police union secretary, claimed that Victoria’s crime wave was the worst in half a century:

Mr Iddles can’t think of another time when crime in his home state was worse.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.