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Live export firm’s licence on holdThe company responsible foralmost three-quarters of the live-sheep export trade has beenstripped of its licence in the wakeof an animal cruelty scandal. TheAgriculture Department yester-day said it had suspended theexport licence of a company be-lieved to be Emanuel Exports,which handles more than 70 percent of the market.

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‘It’s like stepping onto another planet’

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Kristina Somerset, 22, of Brisbane and her British friend Christina Mann, 28, explore the Painted Hills: ‘The only thing you can hear is your footsteps’

It is “otherworldly”, walkingwhere so few people have been, ina place like nowhere else.

The Painted Hills are changingcolour as the shadows lengthenand the temperature drops in thisremote corner of South Austra-lian desert.

And what a feast for the eye:the sculptured outcrops that looklike giant ochre meringues areturning to gold in the butteryevening light, softening the land-scape’s stark contours.

The hues deepen to red andpurple before we’re called away bybush pilot Trevor Wright; heneeds to get us back to the planeand in the air before the day fadesaway.

“Oh wow, this is beautiful,” said

university student Kristina Som-erset, 22, of Brisbane. “It’s likewe’ve stepped on another planetcompletely … this is so differentfrom anything I have seen before.”

Her British friend, ChristinaMann, 28, of Devon, said she hadnever experienced such profoundstillness. “The only thing you canhear is your footsteps,” she mar-

velled. “There are no birds, nonoise whatsoever. We could be theonly people on Earth.”

Our party is one of the first toset foot on the Painted Hills,

southwest of Lake Eyre, after MrWright received permission inApril to bring in tourists on fly-in,fly-out visits.

Until then, one of the wondersof the outback had been off limitsbecause the Painted Hills were onprivate land on Anna Creek sta-tion — the nation’s largest beefholding — and the former ownerrefused access.

That changed when the Wil-liams Cattle Company bought the23,000sq km property and thenew boss, Matt Williams, agreedthat Mr Wright could use an oldmustering strip for day trips.

There were three conditions:the tour groups had to be small,closely supervised and were totread carefully. The land was to beleft as pristine as they had found it.

“We are not tourism operators,we’re cattle people, but we can seewhy other people want to experi-ence this,” said Mr Williams, 33. “If

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For the first time, tourists may visit the spectacular Painted Hills in South Australia’s desert

Trump set for tour Down Under

Donald Trump is expected tomake his first visit to Australia asUS President during an Asia-Pacific tour in November, head-lined by the Asia-PacificEconomic Co-operation leaders’summit in Papua New Guinea.

US government sources con-firmed that security assessmentswere being undertaken for apotential visit soon after the USmid-term elections on November6. With the APEC leaders’ meet-ing slated to run from November

17-18, it is likely Mr Trump wouldvisit Australia before attendingthe summit.

The source said one option

being considered was a Sydney-Canberra-Cairns visit, but noth-ing had been “locked in” yet.

It was also suggested MrTrump might fly into Brisbane,which is being considered as astaging point for leaders to fly toPort Moresby for the summit.

Concerns have been raisedabout the capacity of Port Mores-by’s airport to accommodate AirForce One

The idea, according to anothersource, was that Mr Trump woulduse the PNG meeting as an oppor-tunity to visit Australia.

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November 6, 2018 US mid-term elections

November 11-15 ASEAN East Asia summits, Singapore

November 12- 18 APEC leaders’ summit, Papua New Guinea

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Tonight in Australia, in everycapital city, men and women willwalk through our streets. Theywill go to restaurants and bars.They will walk down alleys. Theywill cut across parks. They willstroll along rivers. Almost cer-tainly, they will get home safely.

The murder of EurydiceDixon is a terrible reminder thatnot everyone does all the time.Yet, for those who see her deathas an extreme manifestation ofmen’s contempt for women andthe daily violence this fuels, thereare uncomfortable truths abouthomicide. Eurydice Dixon was

allegedly murdered by a man shedidn’t know. Criminologists callthis stranger homicide and it isexceedingly rare for women to bekilled this way.

The Australian Institute of

Criminology maintains a data-base of all known murders andmanslaughters in Australia stret-ching back 25 years. The instan-ces of women being killed bysomeone they didn’t know or had

just met accounts for only 3 percent of all homicides.

Between July 1, 2012, and June3, 2014 — the most recent report-ing period of the institute’snational homicide monitoringprogram — 62 people were killedby a stranger. Of these victims, 58were men and four were women.The perpetrators are almost al-ways men. So, too, are the victims.

Tonight in Australia, if some-one is killed in a random attack inone of our cities, it is far more like-ly to leave a family grieving a lostson, brother or husband, than adaughter, sister or wife.

Rape murders by strangers aredifferent. The victims are almost

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Resident evil: women rare victims on streets

CHIP LE GRAND

Source: Australian Institute of Criminology, National Homicide Monitoring Program.

WHO KILLS WHOThe number of murders in Australia

from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2014487

88%Male offenders

64%Male victims

79% Victims of domestichomicides are women

Killed by a stranger: 3% of victims

are women

Eurydice Dixon

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RIVAL DELIVERS HIS LABOR MANIFESTO

Albo’s vision exposes gulf with ShortenAnthony Albanese has laid out hisblueprint for government, callingon Labor to follow the lead of BobHawke and Paul Keating andengage with big business, repudi-ating Bill Shorten’s anti-businesscrusade weeks out from the cru-cial Super Saturday by-elections.

Delivering the Whitlam Ora-tion last night, Mr Albanese — along-time leadership rival of MrShorten — said it was critical for afuture Labor government toengage more closely with “unions,the business sector and civilsociety”.

Contradicting his leader’s pushagainst big business, Mr Albanesesaid “our job is not to sow discord,it is to bring people together in theservice of the national interest”.

Mr Shorten declared “war” onbig business during an “un-friendly” lunch with the BusinessCouncil of Australia in Novem-ber. Mr Shorten — the formerAustralian Workers Union bosswho is backed by the militant con-struction union — has led Labor’scampaign opposing company taxcuts for businesses with a turn-over of more than $50 million.

“Labor doesn’t have to agreewith business on issues such ascompany tax rates but we do haveto engage constructively withbusiness large and small,” MrAlbanese told supporters at theShellharbour Workers’ Club inNSW. “We respect and celebratethe importance of individualenterprise, and the efforts andimportance of the business com-munity.”

Mr Albanese’s speech, inwhich he described ugly battlesbetween unions and businesses as“sapping national energy” andwhich “gets you nowhere”, came

ahead of a showdown in the Sen-ate next week on the govern-ment’s proposal to cutthe corporate tax rate for all busi-nesses from 30 to 25 per cent. TheTurnbull government, which woncrossbench support this week forMalcolm Turnbull’s $144 billionpersonal income tax package, isexpected to seize on Mr Alba-nese’s speech ahead of the finalsitting week before the winterbreak.

Mr Albanese — speaking onemonth out from the five Super

Saturday by-elections on July 28where Labor is fighting to retainfour seats — urged his party toavoid being a wrecking oppo-sition, embrace “optimism” andnot “make the mistake of hopingto slide into government off theback of our opponents’ failures”.

The Weekend Australian un-derstands Mr Shorten — who islocked in a battle with the govern-ment to hold on to the Queens-land marginal electorate ofLongman and Braddon in Tas-mania — would come under lead-ership pressure if he loses one orboth of the Labor-held seats.

Mr Shorten, campaigning withLongman candidate Susan Lambyesterday, has been privatelyattacked by colleagues over hisnegative campaigning on the citi-zenship crisis, which left himexposed after it was revealedLabor MPs, including Ms Lamb,were dual citizens before the 2016election. In a warning to the Laborparliamentary team, Mr Albanesesaid: “It’s not good enough to say:“Elect us because the other mobare useless.”

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Peter Dutton has warned his Coalition colleagues that Australia is in a “danger phase” with illegal boat arrivals and one act of compassion could “undo overnight” the five years of hard work in “stopping the boats”.

Facing renewed calls to bringpeople in detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru to Australia as Europe and the US face political and social crises over immigration and refugees, the Immigration Minister is adamant “it’s not time to take our foot off the throat of this threat”.

“We are in a danger phase because only a month ago we stopped a steel-hulled vessel with 131 people coming out of Sri Lanka, there are 14,000 people still in Indonesia and

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Dutton signals no softening of asylum policy

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always women. The perpetratorsare almost always men; men whorandomly rape and kill.

These are the men who havestalked our fears since EurydiceDixon’s body was found, the menwhose crimes provoke dispro-portionate community outrageand febrile debate.

There are very few of them. Onaverage, since 1990, there arebetween two and three cases ayear reported across all states andterritories.

James Ogloff, an experiencedclinical forensic psychologist, haslooked into the minds of some ofthese men. He conducted forensicassessments of Victoria’s tworecent rape-murderers, AdrianBayley and Scott Miller, and psy-chotic killer Sean Price, who wasalso a rapist.

Bayley is a serial rapist whoraped and murdered Jill Meagherin 2012. Price is a serial violentoffender who in 2015 murderedMelbourne schoolgirl Masa Vuk-otic and raped another woman.

Miller was a homeless schizo-phrenic who in 2014 raped andmurdered 32-year-old pastry chefRenea Lau early in the morning ina public park in central Mel-bourne, as she was walking to thetrain station to get to work. Millerhad no criminal history.

Ogloff has followed the debatestill raging about whether crimeslike these have their origins inhow men think about and treatwomen, how boys are raised andhow everyday sexism and harass-ment shapes our society. He saysthe debate is a worthy one but fitsuneasily with what he knowsabout men who randomly rapeand kill.

“There are very naive discus-sions about teaching aboutrespect in schools and that some-how that will stop these crimes,’’he tells The Weekend Australian.“That is not my experience at all.

“The reality is that rape-mur-ders by strangers are very rare andthe motivations of the perpetra-tors, in the cases I have seen, don’tstem from any particular attitudesagainst women.’’

Bayley had an uncontrollableurge to rape but had normal, non-abusive relationships with theother women in his life. Pricekilled a woman to send a psychoticmessage to society. Miller was hisown, unique case. None of themdisplayed a loathing of women.

“In each of these individuals,their motivations and psycho-logical make-up was remarkablydifferent,’’ Ogloff says.

“There is a perception that itstarts with anger towards womenand therefore, men rape womenand, maybe, kill women. In serioussexual offending, the motivationis often a deviant sexual interest. Itis very much a sexual motivation.There may be power and control,but not necessarily.

“If you think about what drivesthese aberrant crimes, disrespect-ful attitudes towards women isn’ta necessary or sufficient expla-nation.

“There is a lot of merit in con-tinuing to address attitudestowards women, but the outcome

Continued from Page 1 about men’s attitudes. She saysshe was moved to do so by twothings; public commentary ques-tioning whether Eurydice Dixonshould have been walkingthrough a park at night and thenumber of women who contactedher with stories of being sexuallyassaulted and raped.

“We don’t know the circum-stances of Eurydice’s murder,’’ shesays. “What we do know is wehave massive statistics of womenbeing sexually assaulted by men.About 98 per cent of the perpetra-tors in sexual assaults are men.And we have got really high num-bers of men, in terms of genderbreakdown, committing murders.

“Since I was young I havealways walked with my car keysbetween my fingers to go to a carat night. I have always done that,not out of fear that I am going toget murdered but out of fear that Iam going to get sexually assaulted.That is the difference for womento men at night.

“I hate the fact that it has takena murder to have this conver-sation. It is such an extreme caseand I know people will say it’s notall men. I agree it is not all men.What we are saying is the menthat see this stuff happening, atlow levels in their daily lives, weare asking them to step up andchange it.’’

Fitz-Gibbon agrees this is a dis-cussion we must have: “Women are at greatest risk from the men they trust, not the men they fear. The fact this crime has attracted national attention does provide an opportunity to reflect on what are the common contributors towards violence against women.’’

There is no question the deathof Dixon has started an importantdebate. Homicide experts, such asSamara McPhedran, a researchfellow at the Griffith Universityviolence research and preventionprogram, question whether we areany wiser as a consequence.

“There is one line of debatearound attitudes of men and an-other line of discussion that sug-gests there are monsters outthere,’’ McPhedran says.

“The truth is probably some-where in the middle and far morecomplex than either of those quitepolarised positions can capture. Inany debate around violence andhomicide in any form, there is atendency to reduce that down tooversimplified explanations. Thatdoes very little to advance ourunderstanding of these events.’’

Ogloff says the communityneeds to have a broader under-standing of homicide; that ran-dom attacks against women arevery rare, that our homes, ratherthan our streets are the mostdangerous places, that men aremore likely to be murdered thanwomen, especially by someonethey don’t know.

“I have two adult daughtersand an adult son. When they wereteenagers, I worried more aboutthe guy because I know men aremore likely to be beaten up andkilled by strangers than womenare. We overlook the harm to menand we need a broader conver-sation than just changing attitudesto women. If it was that easy, thatwould be wonderful.”

Resident evil: womenrare victims on streetsMURDERED BY STRANGERS Killer: Adrian Bayley

ABC employee Jill Meagher was raped and murdered by Adrian Bayley on her way home on September 22, 2012. Bayley was on bail for three other rapes when he killed Meagher 100m from her home in Brunswick, Melbourne. Her death led to protests in Melbourne and an overhaul of Victoria’s parole system. Bayley was jailed for life.

Killer: Sean PriceMasa Vukotic, 17, a Canterbury Girls Secondary College student, was stabbed 49 times in a park in Doncaster, Melbourne, by Sean Price on March 17, 2015. He raped another woman two days later. He was jailed for life. He told police he decided to kill at random a woman from a wealthy part of Melbourne because he hated society.

Killer: Scott Allen MillerRenea Lau, 32, was on her way to work as a pastry chef on the morning of June 28, 2014, when she was attacked by homeless man Scott Allen Miller. He dragged her into King’s Domain, a park just outside Melbourne’s CBD, and bashed her and raped her while she lay dying. He was jailed for 33 years.

EURYDICE DIXONComedian Eurydice Dixon, 22, was found dead in Carlton North’s Princes Park on June 13. She performed at a Melbourne bar earlier in the evening. A 19-year-old man has been charged with her rape and murder.

JILL MEAGHER

MASA VUKOTIC

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won’t be that these crimes will beeliminated.’’

Within our federal parliament,there is bipartisan consensusabout the death of EurydiceDixon and the social failings thatcaused it.

“Not all disrespect of womenends up in violence againstwomen but that that’s where allviolence against women begins,’’Malcolm Turnbull said. “This is aheartbreaking tragedy, but whatwe most do as we grieve is ensurethat we change the hearts andminds of men to respect women.’’

Bill Shorten said it was up to allmen to do more: “All of this viol-ence is ultimately preventable andwe need to tackle the enablers ofviolence, we need to change theattitudes of men.’’

Victoria Police Chief Commis-sioner Graham Ashton has been acop long enough to know somepeople are beyond the reach ofnoble intentions.

“In society, even in the safest

society, evil occurs,’’ he tells TheWeekend Australian.

“People will do evil things andfor reasons you just can’t under-stand. You see it in every com-munity in the world. I think itcomes back to human nature.Some people will commit thesetypes of crimes and they are notgoing to change. It is almost intheir DNA.’’

Victorian Minister for WomenNatalie Hutchins calls violenceagainst women an epidemic. Ash-ton doesn’t disagree. He recog-nises that disrespect towardswomen is at the root of so much ofthe family violence his officersconfront every day.

Although reported rates offamily violence have reached aplateau in Victoria over the past 12months, it is one of the few catego-ries of crime that has risen againsta longer-term trend of fallingcrime rates across the state.

About every seven minutes,Victoria Police receive a call for afamily-violence incident. In near-ly all cases, it is a woman on theother end of the line.

It is here, in the home, that thedebate about men rightly belongs.This is where most women arekilled. This is where sexist atti-tudes lead to women being con-trolled emotionally and financ-ially, physically abused, sexuallyassaulted and, in about oneinstance every week, killed.

As Monash University crimi-

nology lecturer Kate Fitz-Gibbontells all her first-year students, awoman is at greater risk cookingdinner in her own kitchen thanshe is walking down a dark alley atnight.

Homicide statistics tell us thatthe most likely place for anyone tobe killed is their own residence.Domestic homicide, where a per-son is killed by a family member ortheir partner, is the largest catego-ry of homicides, covering 41 percent of reported cases. In 79 percent of domestic homicides, thevictims are women.

“We see in the family violencework a strong correlation betweenrespect for women and violenceagainst women and family viol-ence,’’ Ashton says. “That’s whymost of our conversation aroundit, from a policing point of view,sits in the family violence and stuffwe deal with every single day as ahigh-volume issue; assaultsagainst women, sexual assaultsagainst women.’’

The problem is that violenceagainst women in the home, evenmurders, doesn’t make the frontpages of newspapers. It doesn’tprompt vigils. It doesn’t promptspeeches in parliament by theprime minister. Random murdersof women in public places do.

The death of Eurydice Dixon,as a tragic exception to the homi-cide rule, sits uncomfortably with-in the debate it provoked.

Ron Iddles, a retired homicidedetective who investigated themurder of Jill Meagher, says if wewant to understand why Dixonwas killed there is no point look-ing at it through the prism of fam-ily violence.

“It is out of the box, this one,’’he says. “You have got to take thedomestic violence out. It has gotnothing to do with domestic viol-ence. That’s where it all gets a bitclouded. I’ve seen stuff online, thatthis is the way men treat women.Well, it’s not, there are monstersout there.

“Men who do this make a con-scious decision and I’m not surehow you are ever going to changeit. How do you change someonewho is either mentally disturbedor has an issue? Will it changewhat men do? I don’t think so.Will it change what women do?There will be women walkingthrough a park tonight. Will ithappen again? Yes, it will happenagain. It will.’’

Hutchins had led the debate

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