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Man and boy arrested after allegedly attacking One Nation volunteer with bat

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The incident comes amid growing calls for the temperature of political debate in Australia to be turned down.

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Both outlets lead on the arrest of a man and a boy over an alleged baseball-bat attack on a One Nation volunteer, and both keep the volunteer and the alleged assault at the centre. The Guardian US adds that police confirmed the ages of those arrested and places the incident outside a Torquay home in Victoria on Sunday night. BBC News is alone in explicitly framing the story around calls to lower the temperature of political debate in Australia.

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