Hmm, not on our news yet Tim... Sounds uncool but you know? It's been going on for years. I had some very very narrow escapes there but at least you can get good advice from the majority of very nice people you meet.
It's a different culture and almost impossible for us to comprehend. I lived there 6 or so years and guns were so part of their infrastructure - they never noticed. I did and it freaked me out, but to them? Normal.
Anyone's violent unnecessary death is a tragedy not just because they're Aussies either.
All the Americans I ever met were very respectful of Aussies because of a perceived shared history of hardship, caused by, er, well, probably us.
The only way I knew to survive in some parts of Chicago, New York and Boston, was to go around shouting "G'Day mate" and drinking gnats piss.
That is a perfectly true story Tim - an inch from certain death on July 4th 1975 in an Irish Bar in Oakland California - if I'd have been tagged an Englishman, ha.. well. you know the rest.
Sorry for the tragic loss. Unfortunately, they won't be the last.