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Media outlets across Australia have carried headlines about a “youth crime crisis” in recent months. While drawn from actual events, often involving serious criminality and antisocial behaviour, these often sensational reports have the same narrative subtext. The story is one of “bad kids” doing bad things in otherwise “good communities”.

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DALLAS — Anyone who has even loosely followed Maxi Kleber’s six-year Mavericks career knows he’s a model teammate, as well a close friend of Dwight Powell, Josh Green and ex-Maverick Jalen Brunson.

Last week, a 67-year-old man was bitten on the arm by a saltwater crocodile at a waterhole in the Northern Territory’s Top End. Predictably, the incident has prompted debate over whether a crocodile cull is needed.

In the Northern Territory, the failure to implement the Gonski funding reforms has left students with the fewest resources further disadvantaged

'We saw the crocodile surface just below the waterfall. It was about two metres long.'

Man taken to hospital after reptile, believed to be 2 metres long, attacked him in the Litchfield national park

It’s time to give vulnerable punters a chance – and a true ‘exit plan’ from further gambling harm

Royal commission particularly scathing of Scott Morrison and Stuart Robert and the top public servant in charge of the scheme