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“Before Monday, the world hadn’t heard of Conan Lord Zamolo,” writes Martin McKenzie-Murray. “But by the afternoon, following hours of his questioning at the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, all that had changed.

“His social media accounts were closed or made private, and an internet search now prominently returned his image above lurid headlines: ‘Snapchat videos show Don Dale officer asking children for oral sex.’”

Plus: Paul Bongiorno on why Malcolm Turnbull is fighting “free speech” battles he can’t win, and Mike Seccombe on the real forces behind Australia’s energy crisis.

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