John Bowler says he will make ‘captain’s call’ to deal with antisocial behaviour in the town,which he attributes to people coming in from Ngaanyatjarra landsJohn Bowler, a controversial former Western Australian government mining minister who was elected mayor of Kalgoorlie in final weekend’s local government elections, or has begun his tenure by singling out Aboriginal people coming into the town of 30000 from desert homelands.
In an interview with the ABC Goldfields breakfast program on Monday,Bowler said he would make a “captain’s call” to deal with antisocial behaviour in the town, which he attributed to the number of people coming in from Ngaanyatjarra lands.
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Source: theguardian.com