The Needed Change in the Age of Consent: An Appeal For the Better Protection of Our Girls

Arthur, Richard · 1932

Good laws, as a great statesman has said, are for the purpose of making it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong. Such laws protect the weak and ignorant who are unable to take care of themselves, and deter the cunning and unscrupulous from injuring their fellows. When the strong prey upon the weak in any community, without the law in any way attempting to prevent it, such apathy points to a low moral sensibility in the community in which it exists. This moral indifference and tolerance of injustice, must be charged against the people of New South Wales. Their representatives in Parliament have so devoted themselves to the strife for office and the incidence of taxation, that the quest…

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