Domestic violence
Murderer of WA women owned 13 guns, called daughter during shooting
The Perth man who murdered two innocent women inside their suburban home on Friday was a licensed gun owner, it has been revealed.Â
- by Heather McNeill
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Seething in the city: Street art, graffiti, YIMBYs and NIMBYs
Readers discuss the benefits of street art, the scourge of graffiti, the rise of YIMBYs, and the bad rap NIMBY’s get.
Lismore rallies for a mother in grief after murder of her child
Rowan’s mother Dr Sophie Roome and students from his swim school were among the crowd of 120 who gathered to remember the toddler killed by his father in a murder-suicide last week.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
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Tragedy
Floreat mother and daughter murdered over friend’s marriage breakdown
Jennifer Petelczyc, 59, and her youngest daughter Gretl, 18, were senselessly murdered on Friday after becoming the unexpected victims in the marriage breakdown of a family friend which ended in a gunman storming their house.Â
- by Holly Thompson, Heather McNeill, Michael Stamp and Amber Wilkinson
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The check-out might be the only human contact some of us get all day
Readers discuss customer service and ask why Coles is not hiring more human assistants when self check-out theft has risen 20 per cent.
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We are a big gas producer, why the scare campaign about running out?
Readers ask how Australia, one of the world’s biggest gas exporters, could be facing a shortage at home. Listen to the experts, not the gas producers, they write, to find out if there’s any truth in claims of supply shortages for Victorians.
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Australia and the planet lose, no matter who wins next election
Readers discuss the next election. If the Coalition wins, Australia will nuclear power eventually, but will not meet its 2030 carbon reduction commitments. If Labor wins, Australia will get transitional gas.
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Child safety
Getting family violence victims out of motels key to suicide prevention, premier told
Expanding crisis shelters is cheaper and safer than housing women in motels, Victoria’s leading 24/7 family violence response provider says.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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Broken promises and delayed projects the reason for Allan’s poll slump
Readers discuss reasons the Allan government is losing support according to the results of this week’s Resolve Political Monitor survey of 1105 eligible Victorian voters.
‘Jealousy, rage, entitlement’: Bodybuilder sentenced to 30 years for murdering girlfriend
Sven Lindemann, who shrugged off the attempts of a 10-year-old girl to save her mother as he stabbed her to death, has been jailed.
- by David Estcourt
‘We are devastated’: Mother’s incomprehensible grief after murder of two-year-old son
The mother of a child killed by his father in Lismore says the toddler should have been able to trust the man who took his life.
- by Catherine Naylor and Sally Rawsthorne