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Alastair Clarkson has hit out at Australia's failure to deal with violence related to drugs and alcohol following the Bondi Junction stabbing rampage that shocked the nation.
The North Melbourne coach was visibly emotional on Sunday when asked about the horrific incident before his side's match with Geelong.
Earlier in the day it had been revealed that one of the victims, Ashlee Good, was the daughter of ex-North Melbourne great Kerry Good.
The 38-year-old died hours after she and her baby daughter were stabbed in the shocking attack.
Ex-Roo’s daughter Ashlee Good was killed in the Bondi mass stabbing attack
Good's family have confirmed that the baby is now 'doing well' after emergency surgery.
Queensland man Joel Cauchi, 40, was responsible for the attack and was known to have mental problems and an obsession with knives.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said investigators will probe if Cauchi was affected by drugs at the time of the attack.
Clarkson was emotional when discussing the tragedy and mentioned recent unrelated incidents in Victoria involving the deaths of Samantha Murphy and Hannah McGuire.
'It's difficult for the Good family to have to deal with that tragedy obviously. It's difficult for us all to deal with,' he said.
'You're just fed up with it to be fair. We've got three families in Ballarat grieving. We get the same thing after every one of them, drugs or alcohol, and yet as a society, as a government we say, "Our fellow Australians, we're grieving for our lost ones again".
'When is it actually going to change? When are people actually going to do something about this scourge on society which is drugs and alcohol?
'The government does nothing about it to the extent that they should. Drugs is an issue in our sport and we don't do enough about it and we
