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Leading article Australia

Broken society

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

The deaths of NSW teenagers Thomas Kelly and Daniel Christie were beyond tragic. The senseless, random nature of the violence that saw both young men struck down in the prime of their lives in two unrelated and unprovoked attacks — weirdly only yards apart from each other in Sydney’s Kings Cross — galvanised local talkback radio and mainstream press like very few other recent events.

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