Young women like Michaela Dunn are increasingly working in Sydney's unregulated sex industry reports Helen Pitt.
The peak body for emergency room doctors says they warned authorities a tragedy like the fatal Sydney knife attack was inevitable if governments did not act to fix the crisis in hospital EDs.
Mr Ney's lawyer also requested medication for his client's mental health and leg injuries.
The man has been charged with multiple offences including murder and attempted murder,after his release from hospital,three days after a violent stabbing spree in Sydney's CBD.
Within hours of Tuesday's attack,it appeared to police they were dealing with an intractable problem.
The killing of a young sex worker in Sydney's Clarence Street stabbing raises tough questions.
NSW Police Association president Tony King has called for a system overhaul after the CBD stabbing spree.
Mentally ill people are much more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators,but we need better alert systems for the rare dangerous cases.
Two days after the deadly attack in Sydney's CBD,John Bamford,who used a cafe chair to stop the suspect,has said he had no option but to act.
The tragic knife attack in Sydney's CBD on Tuesday may have looked,in those six minutes of chaos,like a terrorist act. It wasn't,and the distinction matters.
Police are investigating a violent rampage in central Sydney that left one woman dead,another injured,and dozens of onlookers shaken on Tuesday.