Talk:Hoddle Street massacre

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Oxymoron
Loooks like this was made as an accident, '...for the bloodiest massacre in Australian history since the Sydney Milperra massacre in September 1984' ... in short 3 years! I highlighted this whilst trying not to lose its magitude. Antimatter31 (talk) 21:19, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The comparison is not really encyclopedic - more like a journalistic type phrase. (I recently removed a similar comment from Whiskey Au Go Go fire.) Given the two events had similar death tolls, and were just three years apart - plus the later event was 23 years ago - the comparison doesn't really serve much of a purpose. Also, the death toll was far surpassed in the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, which also makes the comparison meaningless. Format (talk) 07:48, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Hyperbole?
With the fairly low number of seven deaths, I don't understand how this incident can be described as one of the "bloodiest massacres in Australian history". According to List of massacres in Australia, there were two massacres in which about 300 died in each. Is this one of the "bloodiest massacres" against non-Aboriginals? Even if the timeframe is restricted to the late 20th century (a fraction of "Australian history"), it still ranks #5 of 6 "massacres". Boneyard90 (talk) 08:38, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, the judge showing his ignorance or prejudice. - Snori (talk) 09:30, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

motives
I cut a section about possibly "valid" motives. I suspect this page may be being edited from within Victoria's prison system... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.139.183 (talk) 05:41, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

The Newsreader
the massacre was featured in series 2 episode 2 Owen1984 (talk) 11:17, 12 November 2023 (UTC)