Every day, in every newsroom around the world, there's a meeting to decide what leads the news.

It's often argumentative and occasionally heated.

In this new podcast, you'll get to hear the argument for yourself.

As each week, three journalists pitch the story they think mattered most.

And at the end of each episode, I'll decide what comes out on top.

I'm James Harding and from Podomo and Tortoise, this is the News Meeting.

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Take a seat next to the fire.

Last time on Obscura, you heard part one of our story.

In the early hours of January 20, 2017, 26-year-old James Gargosulus had stabbed his brother

Angela with a kitchen knife in the street outside their mother's Melbourne apartment.

James fled the scene in a maroonhold in Commodore, a vehicle he stole from his mother's partner.

He was gone before police arrived, having taken off speeding through Melbourne's southern

suburbs.

James was well-known to police. He was a repeat offender with a string of convictions for violent

offenses, dangerous driving, and evading police.

It also been heavily using methamphetamines, or eyes, for at least a year.

Those around him noticed his behavior and mental health changed dramatically.

He became unstable, paranoid, confrontational, was prone to ranting about nonsensical ideas.

James also had a history of baiting police into engaging in high-speed vehicle pursuits.

Unfortunately for officers on the ground,

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