2009 October: Social

2009 October: Social

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Adolescence

(see also Violence and in Health)

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Mark Russell, Exposed: Grog online too easy for under-age teen, The Age, 2009 Oct. 11 (the 17-year-old girl could not believe how easy it was; couriers from Coles and Woolworths arrived at her Melbourne home last Thursday afternoon and each handed over a carton of 24 imported beers, no questions asked)
Steve Butcher, QC's son faces prison sentence, The Age, 2009 Oct. 10 (the learner driver crashed a friend's BMW at high speed in Caulfield in May last year while affected by alcohol and ecstasy, two months after the maximum sentence for the offence was doubled to 10 years)
Farrah Tomazin, Crunch dents youth job prospects, The Age, 2009 Oct. 7 (the economic downturn has severely dented the prospects of Australian school leavers, with teenage unemployment rising more than it has in decades and the chances of getting into tertiary education or training deteriorating over the past year)
Peter Gregory, Violent youths 'can be changed', The Age, 2009 Oct. 1 (young people engaging in street crime are spiritual anorexics whose behaviour can be changed through structured activities, a leading adolescent psychologist says)

Bureaucracy and Civil Liberties

(see also Politics and in Technology)

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Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker, RBA bosses approved tactics in Nigeria deal, The Age, 2009 Oct. 12 (senior Reserve Bank of Australia officials approved the high-risk business practices that have put its bank-note firm at the centre of an international police probe)
Nick McKenzie, Trapped in the system, The Age, 2009 Oct. 3 (Phuc Van Nguyen, the Australian resident who served the longest stint of wrongful detention imposed by immigration authorities in recent history)

Community and Cities

(see also in Technology)

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Culture and Morality

(see also Sport and Violence)

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Dewi Cooke , Black Saturday 'may incite arsonists', The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (arsonists may have an "increased interest" in lighting fires after witnessing the destructive aftermath of events such as Black Saturday, the Bushfires Royal Commission has heard; Monash University forensic psychologist Professor James Ogloff said although the majority of arsonists he encountered did not want to harm people, there was a small group who were “indifferent” to whether people died as a consequence of their actions)
Farrah Tomazin, Stemming the tide of cyber bullying, The Age, 2009 Oct. 13 (the latest research from Edith Cowan University suggests that on any given day, about 100,000 Australian children will be bullied at school; and between 10-15 per cent are cyber bullied through social networking websites, instant online messaging, mobile phones or other forms of digital technology)

Debt and Housing

(see also Poverty and in Business)

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Jason Dowling, Out of sight, out of mind and out of options, The Age, 2009 Oct. 17 (the tight space under a bridge on one of Melbourne's busier roads has been home to up to half a dozen people in recent years; these are some of Melbourne's hundreds of homeless, who live on the streets and make do with what others throw away in this prosperous city)
Selma Milovanovic, Legal win for refugee families, The Age, 2009 Oct. 13 (thousands of Victorians live in temporary social housing and tenancy advocates say the system is at breaking point because of a shortage of properties and an unaffordable rental market)
Yuko Narushima, City Aborigines miss out in $5bn housing spending, The Age, 2009 Oct. 8 (a Federal Government plan to build 4200 indigenous houses falls significantly short of the 10,000 needed to alleviate homelessness, cramped conditions and financial strains faced by indigenous Australians)
Kate Lahey, War: car park v refuge for women, The Age, 2009 Oct. 5 (Bentleigh residents are fighting plans to build a block of social housing units for women fleeing domestic violence or at risk of becoming homeless, arguing the project will rob them of parking spaces)

(see also Politics)

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Ross Gittins, When politicians talk economics, they think votes, The Age, 2009 Oct. 10 (the goal of politicians is to retain or attain office by attracting sufficient votes; everything they say about economics is directed towards that end; and if to obtain your vote they need to use false or misleading economic arguments, they usually will)
David Rood, State ad spending increases by 12%, The Age, 2009 Oct. 9 (the latest advertising figures also show more was spent on spruiking the Government's controversial plans to reduce congestion in inner-city Melbourne than was spent on campaigns to reduce alcohol-fuelled violence)

(see also Poverty and in Business)

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Andrew Rule, Worker scam exposed, The Age, 2009 Oct. 10 (the Department of Immigration and Citizenship has confirmed that investigators have pinpointed foreign agents who collude with “gang master” labour contractors and corrupt migration agents in Australia to evade tough new migration laws)
Julia Medew, Crash risk for nurses, The Age, 2009 Oct. 9 (nurses and other shift workers should be driven to and from work to prevent them from crashing their cars while extremely fatigued, an expert says)
Ben Schneiders, 300 more jobs for state as Specsavers expands, The Age, 2009 Oct. 9 (it marks quite a shift from just six months ago; then, major employers were laying off hundreds of staff nearly every day, particularly in Victoria's manufacturing sector; now some employers, such as Specsavers, are saying they intend to hire workers)
Ben Schneiders, Ruling on sham contracts 'gives green light to bosses', The Age, 2009 Oct. 8 (unions have warned that employers have been given the green light to employ workers on “sham contracts” that undermine wages and conditions after an important decision in the Federal Magistrates Court yesterday. the case found it was reasonable for an employer to hire two staff at a Nubrik factory as contractors despite the magistrate finding that the relationship between the parties was actually that of employer and employee)
Focus on women's work needs urged, BBC, 2009 Oct. 9 (a think tank calls for more family-friendly policies, saying many women do not want to work full-time)
Farrah Tomazin, Crunch dents youth job prospects, The Age, 2009 Oct. 7 (the economic downturn has severely dented the prospects of Australian school leavers, with teenage unemployment rising more than it has in decades and the chances of getting into tertiary education or training deteriorating over the past year)
Josh Gordon, Law change takes aim at schoolyard tormentors, The Age, 2009 Oct. 4 (following a major rethink of the 25-year-old Sex Discrimination Act, anti-harassment laws could be extended to cover children under 16, a group not yet regarded as facing risk; Men who ask employers for reduced hours to look after children also stand to gain greater legal protection from discrimination by employers)
Andrew Murfett, Duo a hit with sacks, lives and video japes, The Age, 2009 Oct. 3 (while the humiliation of losing your job tends to force most into hiding, Ben Birchall, 31, and Shane Dawson, 28, exposed their pain in a very public forum—online)

Family and Child Welfare

(see also Adolescence and in Education, Health and Internet)

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Dellaram Jamali, A little bit of music magic soothes young minds, The Age, 2009 Oct. 22 (ask childhood entertainer Don Spencer and he'll tell you music is magic, and so it is hoped for the students of Strathewan Primary School, eight months since their school was destroyed in the Black Saturday fires)
Selma Milovanovic, Safety most important, say separated parents, The Age, 2009 Oct. 17 (parents wanting to protect their children from unwanted contact with violent ex-spouses have told the Federal Government they are happy to go without child support payments)
Kate Lahey, One in 64 children homeless, The Age, 2009 Oct. 17 (a heartbreaking snapshot of Victoria's homeless children shows most live in their accommodation for less than a year, have been to at least three schools by the age of 12, and long to live without strangers)
Jason Dowling, Kindergartens bursting at the seams, The Age, 2009 Oct. 13 (kindergartens are feeling the full effect of Melbourne's baby boom that some have attributed partly to Peter Costello's $3000 baby bonus available from July 2004)
Focus on women's work needs urged, BBC, 2009 Oct. 9 (a think tank calls for more family-friendly policies, saying many women do not want to work full-time)
Rebecca Morelle, Monkey mothers 'coo' over babies, BBC, 2009 Oct. 8 (the way that rhesus macaque mothers bond with their babies bears a remarkable resemblance to human behaviour)
Carol Nader, Reform call for child protection, The Age, 2009 Oct. 5 (a State Government recruitment campaign to lure British child protection workers to Victoria cost the state more than $500,000—and five workers resigned less than a year after moving here)
Adele Horin, Welfare families hand suffering down to young, The Age, 2009 Oct. 1 (young people who have grown up in welfare-dependent families are disadvantaged in more ways than has previously been realised, a study shows; from much higher rates of asthma and hospitalisation to much lower rates of post-school study and entry to university, the young are likely to suffer the disadvantages of their parents)

(see also in Health)

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Lorna Edwards, Cheque payment a good start but more is needed, The Age, 2009 Oct. 22 (a campaigner against the pokies has mixed feelings about the recommendations of a draft Productivity Commission report on gambling released yesterday)
Misha Schubert, Set limits proposed for pokie bets, The Age, 2009 Oct. 22 (poker machine bets would be cut to $1 a turn and players asked to pre-set limits on how long and how much they can bet, under a plan to stem some of the $12 billion Australians lose on the pokies each year)
Roy Masters, When the carnival is over, it's back to a less-than-level playing field for racing revenue, The Age, 2009 Oct. 19 (the millions of dollars bet on Melbourne's Spring Racing Carnival tend to paper over the bitter NSW-Victoria divide in an industry which is second only to tourism in Australia, employing 50,000 and generating a value- added $1.7 billion annually)
Adrian Lowe, Judge warns on crime cost of casinos, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (talk of a second casino came at the same time a County Court judge criticised the State Government for not seriously acknowledging the problems associated with gambling; Judge Tim Wood made the comments yesterday while sentencing three people to jail for their parts in a multimillion-dollar drug importation and money-laundering syndicate)
Jason Dowling, Victoria's second casino on cards, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (Premier John Brumby has opened the door for a second casino in Victoria—just five months after the Government ruled out such a move)
Kate Lahey, The trouble with Harry, The Age, 2009 Oct. 14 (a gambling high-roller has sued Crown for his multimillion-dollar losses; Lahey examines a case that highlights addiction, personal responsibility and the role of the gambling watchdog)
Jason Dowling, Vic gamblers blow $5.1bn in just one year, The Age, 2009 Oct. 10 (gamblers have blown in excess of $5 billion in Victoria over 12 months for the first time; the amount of money lost to gambling in the state last year was $844 million higher than the amount lost six years ago)
Yuko Narushima, Sports gambling a game breaker, The Age, 2009 Oct. 9 (Australia is ripe for exploitation by an Asian crime syndicate with established reach into Europe and an eye to expand, Canadian writer and investigative journalist Declan Hill said; the nation's obsession with sport, the rise in gambling, its shared time zone with Asia and numerous sporting codes made it an obvious target, he said)
Days numbered for card counters, BBC, 2009 Oct. 9 (a Dundee final year university student has developed a new computer system that could signal an end to card counting at casino blackjack tables)
Lisa Carty, Cafe's secret gaming den, The Age, 2009 Oct. 4 (inspectors swooping on a suburban cafe during the morning coffee rush found nine illegal gambling machines, including five pokies)
Jason Dowling, Table games are pokies in suburbs, The Age, 2009 Oct. 1 (gambling machines the State Government has approved for Crown Casino as “table games” are already operating in suburban pubs and clubs as pokies)
Kate Lahey, Club bids for 50 poker machines, The Age, 2009 Oct. 1 (troubled Southbank nightclub QBH has lodged an application with Melbourne City Council, but owner Bruce Mathieson said he was yet to apply to the gaming regulator)

Justice and Jail

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Katelyn Catanzariti, NSW terror five face life terms, The Age, 2009 Oct. 17 (raids on the men's homes revealed a stockpile of firearms, ammunition, chemicals and camping equipment that the Crown said was “for lying low or disappearing either before or immediately after the commission of a terrorist act”)
Steve Butcher, Man entangled in 'gangland war' sentenced, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (a magistrate who jailed a man embroiled in a ”gangland war” between two families has said the community is fed up with guns, violence and bloodshed)
Adrian Lowe, Judge warns on crime cost of casinos, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (talk of a second casino came at the same time a County Court judge criticised the State Government for not seriously acknowledging the problems associated with gambling; Judge Tim Wood made the comments yesterday while sentencing three people to jail for their parts in a multimillion-dollar drug importation and money-laundering syndicate)
Steve Butcher, QC's son faces prison sentence, The Age, 2009 Oct. 10 (the learner driver crashed a friend's BMW at high speed in Caulfield in May last year while affected by alcohol and ecstasy, two months after the maximum sentence for the offence was doubled to 10 years)
Selma Milovanovic, Top judge hits back at Hulls blast, The Age, 2009 Oct. 10 (a day after Attorney-General Rob Hulls called on the legal profession to “descend from its lofty view of itself as a detached and immutable system” and commit to becoming more accountable, Chief Justice Marilyn Warren slammed his comments as “misconceptions”)
Adrian Lowe, Mum will have baby in prison, The Age, 2009 Oct. 3 (the County Court heard that Amanda Korver—now pregnant with her second child—had three prior convictions for exceeding the legal blood-alcohol limit and three for speeding; she had a blood-alcohol reading of .147 shortly after the crash and was a disqualified driver)
Kate Hagan, Backpacker attackers' jail time increased, The Age, 2009 Oct. 3 (Victoria's Court of Appeal has increased the sentences of three repeat violent offenders who savagely bashed a German backpacker three years ago, rendering him so disabled that he requires ongoing care)

(see also Vocabulary and in Computing and Education)

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Ari Sharp, Stunt inquiry tangled up in definition of 'live radio', The Age, 2009 Oct. 7 (the commercial radio industry has tried to stymie the regulator's investigation into live radio stunts, arguing a seven-second delay meant a show was no longer “live”)

Migration and Asylum

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Matt Wade, Dreams of freedom drive Tamils onto boats, The Age, 2009 Oct. 24 (for Vilvarajah, the yearning to get away far outweighs any concern about Australia's border protection rules; he's convinced he will be killed if he stays and that's reason enough to make a bid for Australia)
Lindsay Murdoch, 'Thousands more' Tamils to come, The Age, 2009 Oct. 20 (people-smuggling networks are moving to bring out thousands more Tamils from war-ravaged northern Sri Lanka)
Yuko Narushima, Focus on smugglers 'may upset Jakarta', The Age, 2009 Oct. 15 (making people smugglers the villains in the asylum seeker debate risks damaging Australian diplomatic ties with Indonesia, an academic has warned)
Tom Allard and Michelle Grattan, Eye of media storm for refugees, The Age, 2009 Oct. 15 (with their barely seaworthy boat moored next to an Indonesian Navy vessel at the port in Merak, the 260 asylum seekers are in a stand-off with Indonesian authorities, refusing to leave their vessel)
Andra Jackson, Labour middleman case, The Age, 2009 Oct. 14 (the Immigration Department is poised to close in on a major labour-hire contractor operating illegally in the agriculture industry and refer a case against him to the Director of Public Prosecutions)
Nick Butterly and Andrew Probyn, Rudd call stops refugee boat, The Age, 2009 Oct. 13 (Indonesia's navy swooped on a boatload of 260 Australia-bound asylum seekers at the weekend after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an extraordinary personal plea to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono)
Brendan Nicholson, Afghan refugees to get protection visas, The Age, 2009 Oct. 12 (the 42 Afghan asylum seekers who survived the explosion and fire on their boat at Ashmore Reef, 610 kilometres north of Broome, five months ago will be given refugee status)
Natalie Puchalski, Many voices, many stories, and a shared mission, The Age, 2009 Oct. 10 (a unique Melbourne project called Yarra Reporter is a journalism training program run by Infoxchange Australia that equips public housing residents with the basic skills needed to report on the issues affecting them)
Andrew Rule, Exposing the lie of the land, The Age, 2009 Oct. 10 (as Immigration Department arrests show, many contractors recruit “illegals” to prune trees, pick fruit and harvest vegetables; some use “subcontractors” to distance themselves from illegality, but they hold the whip hand; the labour black market is an open secret wherever producers dodge rules to harvest crops on time and under budget)
——, Worker scam exposed, The Age, 2009 Oct. 10 (the Department of Immigration and Citizenship has confirmed that investigators have pinpointed foreign agents who collude with “gang master” labour contractors and corrupt migration agents in Australia to evade tough new migration laws)
Denis Gregory, Rare bee skills not enough to earn visa, The Age, 2009 Oct. 4 (a Chinese apiarist who has developed a successful market for unique bee products from Australian eucalypts may have to leave the country because his work is not considered internationally recognised)
Nick McKenzie, Trapped in the system, The Age, 2009 Oct. 3 (Phuc Van Nguyen, the Australian resident who served the longest stint of wrongful detention imposed by immigration authorities in recent history)

Perversion and Physical Abuse

(see also in Science)

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Dewi Cooke , Black Saturday 'may incite arsonists', The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (arsonists may have an "increased interest" in lighting fires after witnessing the destructive aftermath of events such as Black Saturday, the Bushfires Royal Commission has heard; Monash University forensic psychologist Professor James Ogloff said although the majority of arsonists he encountered did not want to harm people, there was a small group who were “indifferent” to whether people died as a consequence of their actions)
John Silvester, Caught in the web, The Age, 2009 Oct. 1 (Victorian police are using cutting-edge technology and internet stings to swoop on hundreds of suspected child sex offenders)

Police and Crime

(see also in Business and Internet)

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Nick McKenzie, Police files leak still a mystery, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (Victorian corruption investigators are yet to uncover who leaked top-secret Victoria Police surveillance files to underworld figures and a gangland hitman more than a year ago)
Chris Vallance, Police forces adopt smartphones, BBC, 2009 Oct. 16 (police officers with smartphones spend more time on the beat says the National Policing Improvement Agency)
Paul Austin, Move to crack down on convicted firebugs, The Age, 2009 Oct. 13 (convicted arsonists can expect to be tracked by police after they leave jail, as part of Victoria's push to make the state safer in response to the Black Saturday bushfires)

(see also Bureaucracy and Democracy, and in Climate, Education and Internet)

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Royce Millar, Smelters costing us $4.5 billion, The Age, 2009 Oct. 17 (a Liberal Party elder and senior member of the state cabinet that decided to build a huge aluminium smelter in south-western Victoria has declared the decision “absolute madness”, saying it had been a costly “disaster” for the state)
Jason Dowling, Victoria's second casino on cards, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (Premier John Brumby has opened the door for a second casino in Victoria—just five months after the Government ruled out such a move)
Paul Austin, The good, bad and ugly on the state of our state, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (it's the day the State Government comes clean on all sorts of things it would rather you didn't know—and they do it all at once, hoping you might not be able to take it all in; it's a tale of the good, the bad and the ugly, with revelations of police corruption, trains running red lights, hospital errors leaving patients disfigured, and public officials awarding themselves huge pay bonuses in breach of Government rules)
Melissa Fyfe, Water crisis as bad as a war: ALP, The Age, 2009 Oct. 11 (because of the highly sensitive nature of its water plan, which included the Wonthaggi desalination plan and the north-south pipeline, the Government did not tell the six bidding advertisers its solutions to fix Melbourne's water problems)
Jason Dowling, City an 'obese parody', The Age, 2009 Oct. 7 (Federal Labor MP Kelvin Thomson has savaged the Victorian Government's handling of urban planning in a blistering newsletter to constituents)
Peter Ker, Query on question mark punctuates desal controversy, The Age, 2009 Oct. 7 (the consortium building Victoria's desalination plant discovered that recently, when a pickle over punctuation threw its bid into an eleventh-hour redesign)
Peter Ker, Rivers 'at risk' in licence renewal, The Age, 2009 Oct. 6 (fears for human and environmental health have failed to deter the Brumby Government from reissuing 9200 licences for cattle to roam freely through Victorian rivers)
Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie, Australia rebuked on graft cases, The Age, 2009 Oct. 6 (the world's leading authority on corruption has criticised Australia's record on pursuing foreign bribery cases as Nigeria moves to investigate kickback allegations against a Reserve Bank of Australia company)
Clay Lucas, Developers' lobby 'shifted' freeway route, The Age, 2009 Oct. 5 (a new ring road planned around outer Melbourne was shifted almost two kilometres west after lobbying by property developers; as a result, grasslands that environment groups say are critical to the survival of key species—and that would have been partially saved under the Brumby Government's original plan—are set to be lost to make way for housing; the Government has rejected suggestions it acted in the interests of property developers, but would not make public the grasslands research upon which its decision was based)
Kate Benson, Squeeze on hospital retailers, The Age, 2009 Oct. 4 (the NSW State Government plans to quadruple revenue gained from retail leases in hospitals are driving out small businesses in vulnerable communities and forcing operators to sack long-serving staff)
Phillip Hudson , Rudd to get US-style 'situation room', The Age, 2009 Oct. 1 (Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is building a $14 million White House-style “situation room” next to the cabinet room in the heart of Parliament House)

Poverty and Inequality

(see also Debt, Employment and in Business)

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Adele Horin, Welfare families hand suffering down to young, The Age, 2009 Oct. 1 (young people who have grown up in welfare-dependent families are disadvantaged in more ways than has previously been realised, a study shows; from much higher rates of asthma and hospitalisation to much lower rates of post-school study and entry to university, the young are likely to suffer the disadvantages of their parents)

Privacy and Counterterrorism

(see also in Computing)

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Barney Zwartz, Anglo-Catholics rejoice as Pope offers return to fold, The Age, 2009 Oct. 22 (in what an Australian bishop calls the most significant Anglican-Catholic development in nearly 500 years, the Pope has invited disenchanted Anglicans to return to Roman Catholicism—as Anglicans)
Jason Koutsoukis, Bible-guided explorer seeks the Oily Grail, The Age, 2009 Oct. 12 (convinced that God gave the Jews a fair share of the massive fossil fuel deposits found elsewhere in the Middle East, John Brown has devoted the past 26 years of his life to finding out where God hid the oil in modern Israel)

Sport and Games

(see also Culture and in Computing, Education and Health)

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Roy Masters, When the carnival is over, it's back to a less-than-level playing field for racing revenue, The Age, 2009 Oct. 19 (racing is well past the intersection of sport and business, now too much of a business to be a sport)
Clay Lucas, City turns on sunshine for 23,000 athletes, The Age, 2009 Oct. 12 (Melbourne turned on stunning spring weather and a perfect running temperature of 7 degrees for the morning fun-run)
Yuko Narushima, Sports gambling a game breaker, The Age, 2009 Oct. 9 (Australia is ripe for exploitation by an Asian crime syndicate with established reach into Europe and an eye to expand, Canadian writer and investigative journalist Declan Hill said; the nation's obsession with sport, the rise in gambling, its shared time zone with Asia and numerous sporting codes made it an obvious target, he said)

(see also Culture and Adolescence, and in Computing)

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Kidman pays out on Hollywood, The Age, 2009 Oct. 23 (Nicole Kidman concedes that Hollywood probably has contributed to violence against women by portraying them as weak sex objects)
Steve Butcher, Man entangled in 'gangland war' sentenced, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (a magistrate who jailed a man embroiled in a ”gangland war” between two families has said the community is fed up with guns, violence and bloodshed)
Julia Medew, GPs face patient violence, The Age, 2009 Oct. 13 (Australian GPs and their staff are being verbally abused and physically threatened by people who can't get an appointment or have to wait too long, research shows)

Vocabulary and Names

(see also Language)

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Harold Mitchell, Stuck at the bottom of the acronym scrum, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (the advertising and marketing industry has developed a plethora of advocate bodies. We have the AFA, AWARD and the APG. Together they represent the interests of a $10 billion industry that covers the world of creative, direct marketing and digital design, as well as creative production companies and strategic consultancies; missing at the moment is the Media Federation of Australia (MFA), representing the media agencies)
Mathew Murphy, Miner looks to turn a corner with name change, The Age, 2009 Oct. 7 (shareholders in Beaconsfield Gold, the company that operates the mine, will be asked next month to support the renaming of the company to BCD Resources; the company, in turn, plans to change the name of the infamous site, to be thereafter known by its historical name—Tasmania Mine)

Weaponry and Slaughter

(see also Violence and in Technology)

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Katelyn Catanzariti, NSW terror five face life terms, The Age, 2009 Oct. 17 (raids on the men's homes revealed a stockpile of firearms, ammunition, chemicals and camping equipment that the Crown said was “for lying low or disappearing either before or immediately after the commission of a terrorist act”)
Piecing together truth of shattering attack, The Age, 2009 Oct. 17 (Aqeel Ahmed is a busy terrorist; on March 3, he led about a dozen men armed with Kalashnikovs, rocket launchers and grenades in an ambush on the Sri Lankan cricket team's bus en route to a Test match at Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium; six months after the attack, the aims and identities of the attackers may be coming to light)