The majority being judged on the minority' ABC News
By vocaloldfart • 3 years ago •
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There was a driving fear threaded through the last election campaign, dominating tabloid front pages and talkback radio.
"We just need to call it for what it is — of course it's African gang violence," now-federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said in the lead-up to the 2018 poll. He claimed people were "scared to go out to restaurants" because they were being followed home by gangs.
Peter Dutton referred explicitly to "African gang violence" in the lead up to the last Victorian election.(ABC News: Ian Cutmore)
Opposition Leader Matthew Guy accused the Labor government of "standing by and allowing Melbourne to become the Johannesburg of the South Pacific".
While much of the African community rejected what it saw as a broad slur, many also voiced concern about the small number of young people who were involved in crime and urged governments to address the underlying causes by investing in jobs and education.
Akech Aliir remains unhappy about what he calls the media's unfair representation of African communities – then and now.
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