Adrian Bayley, the man who raped and murdered Melbourne woman Jill Meagher has today been sentenced to serve at least 35 years in jail. Justice Geoffrey Nettle sentenced the 41-year-old to life for the murder, and 15 years for what he described as ‘a savage violent rape of the worst kind’. Bayley would be eligible…
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I’m not a stranger to the blank expression I get from people when I tell them I studied creative writing at university, and then tell them I’m a writer. ‘You’re a writer,’ they say slowly. ‘So…you want to end up teaching English? What do you do?’ No. I don’t want to teach English. If I…
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Most people wouldn’t tolerate violence if someone sat beside them on the train and said they thought rape is funny. So why is it tolerated online? Social networking site, Facebook, seems to be completely overrun by groups such as ‘Ravaging your girlfriend’s box until she regrets life’, ‘You know she’s playing hard to get when you’re…
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