Shallow, red-top-style headlines only reinforce shallower responses to a profoundly tragic set of circumstances.
Desperate for a family, they take in the baby as their own, and are drawn into an increasingly tragic set of consequences.
As the couple at the lighthouse are drawn into an increasingly tragic set of consequences, these remote, strange lives are rendered immediate and familiar.
Chief Superintendent Kevin Mulligan said: "The family have been made aware of what has occurred and this tragic set of circumstances.
"Now that we have these tragic set of circumstances where Dante Exum looks like he's done his ACL and will be out, it's an exceptional set of circumstances and with proper consultation with the team, and if they all support it, I would think that's appropriate".
If we insist that the politics of racial division will no longer work, we can start to imagine the outlines of a new consensus for racial justice and focus on our shared future, rather than merely await the next toxic, tragic set of events.
Given this tragic set of circumstances and already coping with overwhelming grief, can you then imagine how it feels when reference is made to a late spouses as an "ex-wife" or an "ex-husband" or an "ex-fiance e)"?
