Mardi Gras, police and yet another culture war get the Sydney media excited
Sydney’s LGBTQIA+ community should decide who participates in Mardi Gras, but the murder of a Sydney couple has led to a culture war by a desperate media.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please note that this article mentions deceased persons.
Last week two Sydney men, Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, were murdered in what looks to be an incident of either domestic violence or stalking by an obsessed acquaintance of one of the victims. The alleged perpetrator is a police officer. It’s one of many similar tragic homicides across NSW and Australia. In 2020-21, just over 40% of the 78 domestic homicide victims were male.
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