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Cameron Yap Yap Barker folded the newspaper in half and, with the front-page headlines clearly visible, he dropped it onto his desk and pushed it forward towards Lucas “Butch” Cassidy, seated opposite. “What the f**k is this?”
Cassidy, the Alice Springs editor of the NT News, glanced briefly at the paper and then looked up at Barker. “That’s today’s edition of the newspaper, Cam,” he answered with an indifferent shrug, his voice gravelly and permanently fractured by way too many cigarettes over way too many years.
“I know it’s the paper, Butch,” Barker said sourly. “What is that garbage all over the front page?”
“Ease up a little, Cam. I’m in the newspaper business. Selling the news is what I do. Catchy headlines go a long way in helping us do that.”
“The perpetrator of these crime
