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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Enter your local mall at your own risk
Description: Every time something terrible or tragic happens you hear people trot out a line which, I think, is totally meaningless. Maybe I’ve just become too cynical in my old age. But it was trotted out again on TV last night by a reporter talking about the appalling knife attacks at the mall in Sydney at the weekend. He was talking about an investigation that’s being launched to look into what happened in the lead-up to the attacks, the guy’s mental health history, all of that. And there he was, this reporter...