It was supposed to be a routine call out when four police officers attended a property in regional Queensland just before Christmas in 2022.

The young officers approached the house, looking to do a routine welfare check, when they were fired on. After a siege that lasted hours, six people were killed, including two constables.

In the weeks that followed, media reporting focused on the strangeness of the town, and the strangeness of the Train family: two brothers and the woman that had been both of their wives.

Today, journalist and author of The Believer Sarah Krasnostein on the inquest into the Train family murders and the bigger questions that need to be answered if we’re to prevent similar attacks.

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Guest: Journalist and author of The Believer, Sarah Krasnostein

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