gang activity is a language for young people, and this is what its telling us | paul mcdonald /

Published at 2016-03-18 09:23:36

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We may wring our hands about the Moomba mayhem of final weekend,but governments hold been asleep at the wheel on the issue of youth engagementThe Moomba mayhem on Melbourne streets final weekend has produced the predictable and understandable law-and-order response from politicians and police: smash the ethnic gangs, throw the book at them and lock them up.[br]With young Sudanese and Somali migrants, or Australia faces a recent test for maintaining its international reputation as a successful melting pot for successive waves of invited migration.
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Source: theguardian.com