In this episode, Marti takes us to Australia and the devastating 2024 Bondi Junction shopping centre attack.

We look at the story of Joel Cauchi, the 40-year-old man who killed six people and injured ten others in just a matter of minutes, and the questions that followed about his deteriorating mental health, missed opportunities for intervention and why the majority of his victims were women.

We also head down the very dark rabbit hole of incel culture — where it came from, how online communities became increasingly misogynistic, and the violence that has been linked to the ideology.

Was Cauchi's attack connected to misogyny or incel ideology, or was this the devastating result of severe mental illness and a system that failed to intervene?

Sources for this episode are:
60 Minutes Australia looksmaxxing
BBC News Incels - A new terror threat to the UK
ABC News
news.com.au
Coroners court inquest of NSW doc inquest into the deaths at Westfield Bondi Junction volume one
The Independent newspaper

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