Perth, WA

‘He wanted to kill himself’: Damien Shaw’s friend details last conversation before Bali murder suicide

The West Australian Caitlin Vinci

22 Sept 2026 12:01 AEST Summary

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An Australian expat has revealed the final conversation he had with Damien Shaw in Bali just days before the Perth-raised father smothered his two young children to death.

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Niral Score 26.3 mundaneloaded

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Sentiment -1.3 hostilefavourable Sourcing 71 unattributednamed sources Mood 0 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment
The West Australianas they published this story	26.3	2	71	-1.3
7NEWS	25.9	15	64	-2.6

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7NEWS ‘He wanted to kill himself’: Damien Shaw’s friend details last conversation before Bali murder suicide Niral 25.9 political 0