CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
Ahead of four or five upcoming by-elections and a possible full-blown election in the next eighteen months, Melbourne’s small percentage African-Australian juvenile delinquents have been dragged back into the headlines by Liberal MPs who have otherwise forgotten how to bring about an emotional response from voters.
As of Monday, towns from Tamworth to Broken Hill have experienced their 56th consecutive week of bone-dry conditions – as the Western New South Wales drought continues to punish those farm and our food and clothes.
Official government estimates put 19.5 per cent of the state in drought, while other areas are on “drought watch” or “drought onset”.
The scorched earth of the pillaged Murray-Darling basin has made life much harder for those living off the land in regional New South Wales, and as Malcolm Turnbull pointed out earlier today, the African gangs aren’t helping.
“Some people, some of my colleagues, down in Melbourne… They’ve told me that these gangs might be responsible for the lack of water in the Murray-Darling. Maybe it isn’t the cotton industries fault at all”
“They’ve also, ummm, been linked with the alarming rates of farmers not getting rain while also being fucked by the banks without a kiss”
“Only under a Coalition government will we, as Australians, feel safe at night, be that in the streets of Melbourne, or in the bush”
“Our government is the only one will have the power to circumvent the Victorian state government and empower inner-city Melbourne police officers to deal with these 2000 or so Sudanese kids in Melbourne that might be acting up”
“And in turn, help our farmers”
National and state farming representatives as well as prominent members from Melbourne’s Sudanese community will take part in the “drought roundtable”, which was called by Agricultural Minister Mr Littleproud last month.
Mr Littleproud, who represents Maranoa in south west Queensland, said he wants to improve discussions between NSW farmers and Sudanese migrant teenagers from Melbourne, in a hope to provide as much relief as possible during times of drought.
