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Bondi Beach tragedy : In praise of male courage
The heroes of Bondi Beach should be celebrated in an era of ‘toxic masculinity’.
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Ahmed Al Ahmed thought he was going to die but went ahead regardless to tackle one of the Bondi beach attackers.
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Jemima Kelly
Sunday, Dec 14, was a day of horrific male brutality: a father and son slaughtering 15 innocent people, including a 10-year-old girl and an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor, on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. But it was also a day of astonishing male courage.
Two men (one of them the Holocaust survivor) died while protecting their loved ones; another was killed while trying to disarm the attackers before they began shooting.
