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Just a quick one before I leave this morning.

I, along with everyone else, have been watching the Jill Meagher case for the past few days and was extremely saddened by the outcome of the investigations. When things like this happen so close to home - I was playing a gig on the same road the same night the crime occurred - it grips us frighteningly. I've caught the last train home by myself a few times and it always makes me feel edgy. What really upsets me is the fact that it shouldn't. It should be safe to catch public transport at any time of the day or night. It should be safe to walk along Sydney Rd, a main, busy, social hotspot of a road, on a weekend day or night.It makes me terribly sad to know that a life had to be lost and wasted to bring this issue to the forefront of the media. We are not safe and it isn't right. My mum and dad always warn me about it, 'never find yourself alone', but I usually laugh it off with the fake bravado of someone who is actually anxious about going out. I've always been cautious and smart about that kind of stuff but it seems to me that you can do all the right things, and still make silly mistakes that can cost you. 

And I know there are millions of lives wasted all the time, as a result of war, crime, cruelty, all that horrific stuff that we pretend doesn't happen on a daily basis. Not one person's life is more important than anothers', not one family's grief for their loved ones is more or less than anothers'. We don't forget about all the terrible things that happen, and how sick and unwell and terrible some humans are, but we don't fully acknowledge them until they happen close to home. 

It's not right, it's not right, it's so far from OK. 

And something that is also upsetting me, about as much as all that is, is the backlash that I've been reading on the internet - pages on Facebook like 'Publicly hang Adrian Ernest Bayley'. I have the same doubts about our legal system as most other people I know do but the fact that there are pages and pages of comments like He needs to be dry fisted up his ass over and over! I think his getting a kick out of it the low life scub bag dog! and Castration should be mandatory makes me overwhelmingly sad. 


Let him spend his life in jail and leave it at that. There is so, so much anger in the world and, of course, it's granted in this instance because his crime was, to say the very least, atrocious. But these comments, they do nothing, except spark the public's mob mentality; these comments do nothing except disrespect the victim's family and their grief, and make things terribly worse by fanning the flames of a horrific anger that seems to reside in society, flaring up at times like this.