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A 17-year-old boy has been arrested after a man was stabbed to death in Melbourne’s inner south-east, AAP reports.
Emergency services were called to an address in South Yarra just after 8pm on Saturday after the body of a 34-year-old Ripponlea man was discovered.
A 17-year-old boy from Frankston has since been arrested over the death.
He is assisting detectives with their inquiries.
Anyone who witnessed the incident or has information should contact police.
Updated at 21.46 EDT20m ago21.39 EDT
Keneally on the ‘inevitable’ conflict and adversarial nature in politics
Keneally also warned against the disappearing common ground in politics, saying it was really only when she left that she realised its level of conflict:
To some extent, I feel I was a frog in boiling water in politics.
I’d done it for so long that I had just come to accept that the adversarial nature of it was a given and the conflict was an inevitable part of it.
It probably always will be, but now I look back and think – because the common ground in politics seems to be disappearing – that earlier in my career, I can remember times where people did work together more collaboratively across the aisle.
Updated at 21.45 EDT23m ago21.36 EDT
Keneally warns against ‘physical and online threats’ politicians receive
Keneally also warned against the rising threats to politicians’ personal safety and wellbeing.
I have observed through my time in the Senate that it’s also the demands on MPs’ and senators’ personal wellbeing and safety that have changed.
That, frankly, is one of the reasons I don’t miss the job – the physical incursions into people’s lives, the physical and online threats that people receive.
They’re real, and the AFP takes them seriously. It’s a changed landscape to what it used to be 20 years ago.
Keneally said she received online threats and was also aware of what other MPs experienced, including people making clear they knew where politicians lived.
Updated at 21.40 EDT28m ago21.31 EDT
Kristina Keneally says she has no ‘longing’ to return to politics
Former Labor senator Kristina Keneally has ruled out returning to political office.
Keneally hasn’t spoken out much publicly since she was defeated in last year’s federal election, losing the seat of Fowler in western Sydney to Independent Dai Le, but this weekend she has opened up about her sense of relief at exiting politics in a profile in the Australian.
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2023-06-03 20:47:00
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