How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?
The real life murder rate in 1920s Melbourne – has a TV crime series got it right? Privacy breaches on social media; and the order of birth among siblings – does it matter?
Fact and fiction: how does the murder rate within popular crime series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, set in 1920’s Melbourne, compare with the real life murder rate at that time? We delve into the archives.
After revelations about Facebook and the data firm Cambridge Analytica, there’s been a surge in people talking about privacy and social media. How can you keep your personal information secure?
Plus more on the student gun control movement in America.
Also, to what extent is it true that the order in which we are born in relation to our siblings shapes the way we see ourselves and our place in the world – whether we’re the eldest, the youngest or in the middle? Shivaani Kohok reports.
(Photo: Miss Phryne Fisher [Essie Davis] Credit: Every Cloud Productions/ Ben King)
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