Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Yesterday was a sad, morose day reflecting on the Jewish deaths and their horror, made worse by a never-ending stream of video coverage from every angle. Never has a massacre been as documented and then distributed. The power of citizens with broadcast studios in their phones. The uncensored images spread by the very social media that Australia banned for the under 16s this past week.  And we saw the victims - dead, dying, and being given CPR. In their summer shorts and flip flops ready for a day of family fun by the sea. They looked like us. Because they are us.  Meanwhile the father and son looked unremarkable. Portly. Fat on the life of comfort Australia gave them and yet they did what they did. The face of evil is so often banal.  Second: are you now realising that Winston Peters knew what he was talking about when he refused to back a state of Palestine? I was one of the few who agreed - there is no state, there is no governing authority or governance legitimacy. But underneath it all ther