Timeline of major crimes in Australia
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“Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some ... real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.”
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—Alex Atkinson, British humor writer. repr. In Present Laughter, ed. Alan Coren (1982)