Grooming – Muslim and Catholic
Child abuse knows no race or religion. In the United Kingdom: Detectives have charged 31 people with offences including rape and trafficking after an investigation into sexual offences against children …
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You can’t buy love – but you can buy lots of other things when you can’t buy love
Suing dating agencies – now there is an idea that I haven’t tried yet (partly because I’ve never used dating agencies): A mum who failed to find a partner after …
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We have an euphemism problem on our streets
Modern law enforcement seems to be increasingly as much about policing language as policing crime. Some cynics might say more of the former than the latter, or at least with …
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Welcome to the new anti-hate hate
Lots has been happening in the United States in the last few days, though if I were relying only on the mainstream media to inform me the mental picture I …
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Gone, gone, going… How the media disappears the news
Three stories over the past few days should have been huge. Instead, two of them made just a passing blip on the radar and the third one is now on …
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The Great Outback Mystery
It’s rarely that Australia features in American media, but this time a tiny speck in the middle of nowhere – population 11 – makes for a great story that reads …
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In Norway’s war on drugs the drugs won
What to do about drugs is one of the issues I am genuinely agnostic about; I don’t like the idea of drugs and I think in most cases they are …
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Will climate change make you top yourself?
Yes, according to a latest study: Global warming doesn’t just hurt the planet’s health — it harms people’s too. An alarming new study from Stanford University brings one major human-afflicting …
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Go West, young Waleed, go West
There is no African gang violence problem in Melbourne. I repeat, there is no African gang violence problem in Melbourne: Residents have told of their terror as up to 100 rampaging …
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Worried about gang crime? Depends where you live
Sick and tired of constant “nailing it”, two weeks ago the Golden Logie winner Waleed Aly instead “slammed” Malcolm Turnbull and took “a savage swipe at politicians” over the issue …
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Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Ten months of investigation leaves a mystery in America’s deadliest mass shooting: Las Vegas police have concluded their investigation into the Oct. 1 shooting with no clear idea of why …
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