“I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make the headlines. These are people who have felt that their sense their grief, their sense of injustice has been compounded by a system that just doesn't work, that just doesn't listen to victims, that effectively disempowers them all too often.”

— Nick Xenophon

Legal eagles discuss justice system, 13 May 2005, Stateline (ABC), 2009-11-17 http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/sa/content/2005/s1369386.htm,

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