Another important report from journalist Ben Smee who has covered a lot of QLD police/gov failings towards DV.
Another great report from Ben Smee who has covered a lot of QLD police/gov failings towards DV.
In late 2024, in a quiet suburb of Stockholm, a 14-year-old boy approached a man in his 80s who was using a walker. He stabbed the man three times in the back.
The video of the attack in Hässelby was streamed and spread quickly. It fed a global online ecosystem that actively encourages and glorifies acts of violence and degradation – the “gamification of harm”, as the researcher Marc-André Argentino puts it.
The boy allegedly had links to a network known as 764. Such groups are known to target young people in games including Roblox and Minecraft as well as communities struggling with mental health or sexual identity for online extortion, pressuring them into acts of violence and self-harm.
The 764 network, founded by a Texas teenager, Bradley Cadenhead, is just one part of an evolving online ecosystem, with perpetrators and victims in dozens of countries. Cadenhead is now serving an 80-year sentence in the US for possessing child sexual abuse material.
>Pauline Hanson’s Press Club address has been interrupted after a banner appeared to unfurl behind the One Nation leader reading, "I opposed a pay rise for workers, while I took a $100,000 pay rise for myself".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/pauline-hanson-s-press-club-address-interrupted/106808514
Mason Jet Lee was 22 months old when he was punched in the stomach by his stepfather, William Andrew O’Sullivan – an ice user with a history of violent and controlling behaviour – in June 2016. The toddler’s small intestine was ruptured and he died a slow and painful death several days later, with no medical care.
O’Sullivan and the boy’s mother, Anne-Maree Lee, were jailed for manslaughter and child cruelty.
In the immediate aftermath of Mason’s death, much of the public narrative focused on two alternative villains: the child safety department and the boy’s mother, Anne-Maree Lee.
but...the information withheld by the coroner includes police records that show how eight months before the boy was killed, a woman contacted Queensland police alleging that O’Sullivan had threatened to kill another child in his care.
After the woman’s call, police placed a flag on O’Sullivan’s file. But the flag did not warn authorities about the dangerous man who would later kill Mason.
Instead, it said any further requests for welfare checks of children should be treated by officers as “vexatious” and referred to child safety authorities.
The woman’s subsequent attempts to warn police about O’Sullivan’s alleged actions were ignored due to the flag.
A lawyer who represented a child safety worker at the inquest was outraged when told of the withheld information by Guardian Australia and questioned: “How can it be that we never even knew this had happened?”
content warning: domestic violence and death of an infant
>!Exclusive: An autopsy of the five-month-old revealed dozens of older injuries, including fractured ribs. Yet no one has been charged and no inquest has been held into his death!<
Exclusive: Months before the boy’s slow and agonising death, a woman told police that William O’Sullivan had threatened to kill another child in his care. They branded her allegations ‘vexatious’
What's the best Australian apple? According to The Guardian it's Jazz...
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