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slash setup welcome to the Quillette podcast hosted on alternate weeks by me

Jonathan Kay and by Iona Italia.

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Welcome to the Quillette podcast. I'll be your host this week, Iona Italia.

My guest this week is Andrew Bushnell. He is a researcher from Melbourne who is written widely on criminal justice and holds a PhD in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne.

I'm going to be talking to Andrew about the recent Melbourne crime wave.

My starting point will be an article recently published in Quillette on the 11th

October 2025 called the Melbourne Crime Wave. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Andrew

Bushnell. So could you begin by running our listeners, especially listeners who are not in Australia,

through what has been happening in Melbourne and why we are even running a feature article

about a Melbourne crime wave? What is the situation?

Yeah, the point that I really want to get across in the piece was that

Victoria has seen a real surge in crime across a range of important categories like

assault, like robbery, like breaking and entering.

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