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Is Australia’s ‘voracious’ illicit drug use behind organised crime violence? It’s complicated

By Alex Simpson, Associate Professor in Criminology, Macquarie University

Sydney appears to be facing an escalation of organised crime violence. The shootings this month of 23-year-old university student Marco Tapia and, two days later, 40-year-old Joshua Macdonald in the city’s west, highlighted the often hidden world of organised crime and its violence.

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