In crime reporting, we should ask better questions about the relevance of religion and ethnicity
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
Terrorism and crime played a huge part in the Victorian state election campaign leading up to polling day on November 24.
The Liberal-National opposition has been campaigning on it all year, helped along by its colleagues in the federal government. At one point, federal Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said people in Melbourne were so terrified...