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I lived and worked in Melbourne in the 1970s. I recall hearing and reading media reports of the Queen Street Massacre. These reports began coming out shortly after the massacre began and they were graphic and detailed.

I had worked in Queen Street and I knew the building where the massacre was taking place. I felt deeply distressed. I waited for news bulletins to come out but all of a sudden the reports ceased. There was no subsequent radio, TV, or press coverage of the massacre. I concluded that the authorities, with the Hoddle Street massacre fresh in their minds, feared that the Queen Street Massacre was a copy-cat crime, and that it was in the public interest to impose a blanket news ban, which was probably supported by the media outlets themselves. Michaelarabin (talk) 12:47, 8 May 2008 (UTC)