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Bourke Street tragedy unravelled in minutes, but was years in the making – The Age
For years and years a culture has seeped into policing that doing nothing is often better than acting quickly.
The system failed and people died. Nothing will change that.
On Thursday, Coroner Jacqui Hawkins released her findings into the death of the six people in Bourke Street on January 20, 2017. It is a reasoned, rational and compassionate document that shows she understands the unspeakable pressure on making split-second life-and-death decisions.
She goes out of her way to point out that we are all wise in hindsight.
Her findings, critical and constructive, are made not to find scapegoats but solutions,…
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