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xenophobia
It says a lot about the state of politics today that the worst thing following the Murdoch-owned Sky News interview with neo-Nazi Blair Cottrell on immigration earlier this month, was not that a media outlet was giving a fascist a platform. The worst thing was that Cottrell鈥檚 comments were indistinguishable from those of other mainstream media outlets and elected politicians.
The Australian national anthem is a fraud when it says: 鈥淔or we are young and free鈥.
As I pass people on the streets of Melbourne, many grab their bags, dogs, kids, anything valuable, as I pass, simply because people 鈥 especially young adolescents 鈥 with a South Sudanese background are perceived as criminals. What if they greeted us with 鈥済鈥檇ay鈥, as they do to every other Australian, instead of being fearful of us?