The authorised narrative

In Victoria, career-oriented police know how to look the other way.

Not long into last night’s 7.30, ABC personality Leigh Sales put this question to Anthony Albanese (emphasis added):

“A substantial proportion of Australians don’t like immigration.

How much is opposition to it tied to racism?“

At the exact moment Ms Sales was suggesting only naked bigotry could possibly account for widespread disquiet about immigration and the way it is changing the country, in the outer Melbourne suburb of Taylors Hill residents were being instructed by police to lock their doors and stay inside as “around 100 African youths” rampaged through their neighbourhood.

Yes, Leigh, if you object to your street becoming a war zone, it’s racism pure and simple — a charge that most certainly cannot be levelled at Victoria Police.

As residents cowered in their homes, rocks rained down, private property was damaged and a police car trashed, not a single arrest was made. Not one.

For some background that will help residents of other states grasp why Victoria’s sworn guardians of life and property have once again declined to slap the cuffs on miscreants of African appearance, follow this link or the one below. Briefly, it’s not a good career move to make a “racist arrest”.

— roger franklin

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