‘Jail cowards’: Ray Hadley blasts leaders amid growing violence in our homes

Ray Hadley has delivered a scathing attack on leading government and legal figures after the The Daily Telegraph on Friday called for a change in attitude towards evil in our homes amid a week of senseless, deadly violence.

Ray Hadley has delivered a scathing attack on a number of representatives within the Australian government in response to the rise of violence across the country’s homes.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Attorney-General of NSW, NSW and Queensland premiers and wider Victorian and ACT governments were singled out in the extraordinary blast during the 2GB radio presenter’s response to The Daily Telegraph’s campaign aimed at changing the attitude towards ‘domestic violence’.

The Daily Telegraph launched the campaign on Friday morning, unmasking 18 convicted DV offenders across NSW by changing the language and by calling out perpetrators and calling them what they are — cowards.

“We’ve got 12 of the 18 either on community or intensive corrections orders, two cowards killed themselves on facing murder charges, others, in my opinion, got sentenced to inadequate terms,” Hadley said during his program on Friday morning.

“Now I’ve been saying this for a long, long time, and nothing seems to change. And here is proof positive in The Daily Telegraph today that part of the problem is the sentencing of these people, sentencing.

“12 of 18 got out with a slap on the wrist despite the violence against women.”

Hadley then took aim at ACT Brendan Howe, labelling him as a “low life grub” and “suffering small man syndrome.”

2GB broadcaster Ray Hadley didn’t hold back when responding to the nation’s DV crisis.

“This bloke in the ACT, this low-life grub Brendan Howe, suffering small man syndrome apparently, grabbing his wife, assaulting her and calling his unborn child a little C,” Hadley said.

“He’s prancing around the place in the ACT now a free man while this poor woman has got to put her life back together with her children.”

His frustrations shifted to the DPP, for not appealing the decision after her family’s plea for help.

“I’ve heard from her family listening to me on 2CC appealing for help, no appeal from the ACT, no appeal from the DPP,” Hadley raged.

Police Commissioner Karen Webb says these ‘cowardly monsters’ are making a choice. Picture: Jeremy Piper

“You’re a useless pack of bastards down there.”

Next in line, the Attorney-General of NSW and NSW and Queensland Premiers.

“The Attorney-General New South Wales, about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike or a sunroof in a submarine,” he said.

A forensics police officer at the scene of the horrific house fire in Lalor Park. Picture: Richard Dobson

“But the Premier is a good man, Chris Minns for God’s sake, do something.

“Your counterpart is useless in Queensland, useless. We’ll have a new government up there by the end of the year.

“Victoria we’re no hope, ACT we’re no hope, no hope at all. They are both useless as governments I’m talking about, useless.”

He concluded his outburst with a plea, calling out anyone who “has the balls in government to say enough is enough.”

“They go to jail, bugger the ICOs, bugger the community corrections orders, they go to jail,” he said.

“And until that happens, we’ll have page after page after page of what we have here today.”

In NSW there are about 2500 reports of domestic violence to the police every month – but this likely represents only 40 per cent of actual incidents due to underreporting.

As of this week, 41 Australian women have died at the hands of someone they know this year.

Australian women are nearly three times more likely than men to experience violence from an intimate partner.

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