Machetes: A Moral Panic
On Sunday 25th May 2025, a brawl broke out between two rival gangs at Northland Shopping Centre in Melbourne which led to the shopping centre being locked down and evacuated.
As a result of the incident, a moral panic erupted. Not around gang violence or violent crime, but about machetes; most likely caused by photographs in the mainstream media of a gan…
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