John Croucher, Macquarie University, has posted The Murder at Agnes Banks: Unravelling Truth, Lies, and 19th Century Justice:The setting for a murder that took place in the early days of the New South Wales penal colony in Australia
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Croucher on The Murder at Agnes Banks
John Croucher, Macquarie University, has published The Murder at Agnes Banks: Unravelling Truth, Lies, and 19th Century Justice.
The setting for a murder that took place in the early days of the New South Wales penal colony in Australia
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Today’s correspondent is
… a Paramedic in regional NSW in an area that has a high workload of mental health. The declared mental health facility for the area regularly has mental health patients being watched by NSW health hospital security
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Gibson v Bloomdale [2026] NSWSC 952 (Link to Caselaw).
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