Victorian Liberals in the spotlight of the campaign issue a warning about gang crime in the suburbs

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July 13, 2018 11:49:01

A Liberal pamphlet describing hooded youths and warning gangs in the suburbs has been heavily criticized as racist fear and hissing dogs. As a sign of the harshness of the 2018 election, the Liberal Party distributed leaflets in a community in southeastern Melbourne, Noble Park – which has an African population – saying that only the coalition will attack them. gangs. criminality.

Fears of criminal gangs – sometimes related to young people of African descent – exist in some pockets of the community.

But the image on the flyer is attacked because critics say it was unnecessarily flogging

The photo is the same as that of a London newspaper in 2012.

The pamphlet promotes Liberal Party candidate Darrel Taylor at the Keysborough Labor headquarters held by Attorney-General Martin Pakula.

million. Pakula called the ads "scandalous" and said the photographs were meant to "try to scare my constituents".

"I'm waiting for this to be a sign of things to come – a nasty and fanatical campaign by Matthew Guy and the Liberal Party," Mr. Pakula said.

million. Taylor said that he would not distribute the flyers again. He said the flyer was produced and approved by the Liberal Party headquarters and that the inquiries should be directed there.

would continue to campaign against gang violence, regardless of a person's background.

Helen Kapalos, president of the Multicultural Victorian Commission, was asked about ABC Radio Melbourne if she thought the flyer was a dog whistle.

She replied "it seems like she is, and unfortunately too."

"It was inadmissible"

Ms. Kapalos said "there must not be" a specific reference to the African community for the pamphlet to send a negative perception about this community [19659018] "A big part of my role is interfacing with Africa. And what I see does not correspond to images like that, does not correspond to stereotypes like that, "she told ABC Radio Melbourne

" Under the banner of crime, the law and the law. order [it’s] … not only the image, but the feeling and feeling that, in my opinion, do not clearly represent the entire community. "

Edward O 'Donohue, Minister of Liberal Ghost Police, did not back down It is said in the flyer that there was a serious problem with the gangs in Melbourne.

"I'm not juggling the points, what we're concerned about is gang violence and gang behavior by whoever they are from wherever they are. come or their antecedents, "said Mr. O. Donohue.

" It's about making the community safer. "Roj Amedi, the color rights advocacy group, said that when & # 39; She saw the flyer, she was completely taken aback and even thought it might be wrong

I could not believe that someone aspiring to the government would have actively fueled fear, "Amedi told ABC Radio Melbourne.

"I think the people who will be really hurt are young black kids."

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