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In Melbourne, one more evening of cultural enrichment:

A MACHETE-wielding gang of youths have threatened a woman in her Tarneit home before punching her in the face and stealing her car.

Police said the victim, a 34-year-old woman, parked her car in the garage of her Habitat Court home in Tarneit about 8.20pm on Friday, August 17.

Leading Senior Constable Melissa Seach said the woman was followed inside by four young men of African appearance, who ransacked the home.

“One of the youths produced a machete and punched the woman to the face before making demands for her vehicle,” Senior Constable Seach said.

On Radio National’s AM today, the national broadcaster’s unique perspective on politics, immigration, multiculturalism and crime was captured in three minutes and ten seconds of audio. Apparently the real problem with “African crime” in Melbourne isn’t that people have their doors kicked in at midnight, cars get hijacked, women are punched  and mobs of rowdies riot on a semi-regular basis in parks, at beaches and around the CBD. No, none of that. The real problem is that insensitive sorts insist on talking about such events, the most problematic commentator of all being — yep, you guessed it — Peter Dutton.

To learn more about the situation in Melbourne, the ABC sought out chip-shouldered grumblers of African appearance in …. wait for it … Brisbane! From this item we learn

• Peter Dutton “doesn’t like Africans”
• His comments are “self-fulfilling” in that Africans might as well go on crime sprees because everyone thinks they do anyway
• That it’s “mind blowing” Dutton “was even considered” for the top job because Australia is a “multicultural country”

Having run out of Brisbanians and their insights about Melbourne, the AM reporter concluded his segment by button-holing a young lady who explained that her mother is Australian and her father a black American. That is enough melanin, apparently, to state with unchallenged authority that any comments about Melbourne’s African crime wave, especially from Dutton, will only make people think about Melbourne’s African crime wave — a shocking, racist and bigoted thing, according to the ABC take on events.

Not once in the course of the broadcast did the ABC interviewer challenge even one of the repeated assertions in regard to Dutton’s alleged loathing of Africans. Not once.

One of the criticisms that can be justifiably levelled at Tony Abbott’s prime ministership is that he allowed himself, day in and day out, to be depicted by the ABC as the jug-eared ogre from Warringah. Evidently, should Peter Dutton succeed in ousting the man who won’t leave, he can expect more of the same. Should he beat back Scott Morrison’s reported bid to to take the leadership he would do well to bear in mind that the ABC is his sworn enemy.

To paraphrase one of the interview subjects in that AM segment, if the ABC thinks Dutton is a beast he might as well meet their expectations by acting accordingly. He might wish to start by kicking in Michelle Guthrie’s door and relieving her of a billion dollars-plus per year.

The AM item can be heard via this link or the one below.

— roger franklin

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