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Assassination attempt

Most assassination attempts have some kind of premeditated motivation behind them. Hence the use of the word 'assassination' and not 'murder'. I'm surprised to find not even a hint of what Kocan's motivation might have been in this (or any other) article. It's what I came to the article for. I can find his birth name and info about his childhood and where he was imprisoned, but not the info I (and you can assume others) came for.--Jeff79 (talk) 15:03, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My understanding was that Kocan was mentally disturbed, and that this was the background to the attempt. The shooting is called assassination because Arthur Calwell was a political leader - the Opposition Leader and the alternative Prime Minister. I have not heard if there were any overtly political motivations behind Kocan's actions, other than mental disturbance and shooting a prominent member of the community.

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	Most assassination attempts have some kind of premeditated motivation behind them. Hence the use of the word 'assassination' and not 'murder'. I'm surprised to find not even a hint of what Kocan's motivation might have been in this (or any other) article. It's what I came to the article for. I can find his birth name and info about his childhood and where he was imprisoned, but not the info I (and you can assume others) came for.--[[User:Jeff79\|Jeff79]] ([[User talk:Jeff79\|talk]]) 15:03, 24 December 2008 (UTC)		Most assassination attempts have some kind of premeditated motivation behind them. Hence the use of the word 'assassination' and not 'murder'. I'm surprised to find not even a hint of what Kocan's motivation might have been in this (or any other) article. It's what I came to the article for. I can find his birth name and info about his childhood and where he was imprisoned, but not the info I (and you can assume others) came for.--[[User:Jeff79\|Jeff79]] ([[User talk:Jeff79\|talk]]) 15:03, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

			:My understanding was that Kocan was mentally disturbed, and that this was the background to the attempt. The shooting is called assassination because Arthur Calwell was a political leader - the Opposition Leader and the alternative Prime Minister. I have not heard if there were any overtly political motivations behind Kocan's actions, other than mental disturbance and shooting a prominent member of the community.