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Paul Murray: No excuse for fatal failures in WA child protection system as politicians don’t learn from past

19 Sept 2026 05:00 AEST Opinion An argument, written to persuade. Summary

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It is a political truism that people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS DISTRESSING DETAILS.

Headline as published: Paul Murray: No excuse for deadly failures in WA child protection system as politicians don’t learn from past

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**Not from this story.** A library photograph of australia city skyline, used to illustrate it. Sydney skyline from harbour bridge Wiki.will / flickr, CC BY

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Niral Score 16.9 mundaneloaded

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Sentiment +0.2 hostilefavourable Sourcing 28 unattributednamed sources Mood 41.5 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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