Politics Live Blog: June 24 - 30

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says different approaches  need to be tried to make this country safer.

Asked about boot camps on Newstalk ZB on Tuesday, said the Government was trying a different approach to try to get different outcomes. 

Gang membership, violent crime, ram raids and retail crime were all up, and .people didn't want to go into downtown Auckland because of the anti-social behaviour in the area, Luxon said. 

"People can intellectualise and give me their punditry and commentary about boot camps, but I am going to try to do things differently because we have to get a different set out of outcomes," Luxon said.

"I am going to do these military academies." A pilot was due to start in July. 

"We know we've got to do a better job when these kids come out of these residential programmes.

"They're on the right programme, but when they go back into the environments that actually take them back into the bad pathway, and I'm putting investment into that," Luxon said.

"You've got to do stuff, you've got to try stuff, and I don't even care whether it does or doesn't work ultimately. I am going to try stuff to get a different set of outcomes."