May I remind Victorians of the so-called <\/p>\n\n\n\n
father\u2019s day massacre in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only one died, my 11 year old nephew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He\u2019d been sitting at a computer while his <\/p>\n\n\n\n
nine year old brother played on the floor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
with a loaded antique pistol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bullet also passed through the neck of <\/p>\n\n\n\n
the little one who frantically ran around <\/p>\n\n\n\n
mopping up blood with a tea towel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man presented to the media as <\/p>\n\n\n\n
a grieving parent holding his injured boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was a licensed second-hand dealer and had<\/p>\n\n\n\n
given my sister an old car after their divorce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe it had bald tyres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He stalked her from Melbourne to Gympie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
where she was establishing a new home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After one hearing in Melbourne she travelled <\/p>\n\n\n\n
back to Queensland by bus and picked up the car<\/p>\n\n\n\n
from a friend\u2019s house. The boys survived the crash <\/p>\n\n\n\n
but my sister died, crushed by the steering wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In spite of court orders, our family lost touch with<\/p>\n\n\n\n
my nephew. Mum had left him a house <\/p>\n\n\n\n
in Warnambool, and he appeared at her funeral, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
a softly-spoken young man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His father quipped, your family is jinxed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Howard\u2019s gun controls are sensible in a misogynistic<\/p>\n\n\n\n
culture, but all they meant to one old bastard<\/p>\n\n\n\n
was the chance to chuck out his rusty rifles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
May I remind Victorians of the so-called father\u2019s day massacre in 2000. Only one died, my 11 year old nephew. He\u2019d been sitting at a computer while his nine year old brother played on the floor with a loaded antique … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}