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On January 4, 2018, federal Opposition shadow minister, Anthony Albanese, responded critically to Federal Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton's comments on African gang violence.
On January 2, 2018, Victoria Police Acting Chief Commissioner, Shane Patton, discussed the crime problem involving African youths and the manner in which Victoria Police were responding
On November 26, 2016, the ABC's 7.30 ran a segment looking at the problems facing South Sudanese families in Victoria and their children's involvement in anti-social behaviour.
On January 1, 2018, A Current Affair televised a segment on recent violent crime attributed to gangs of African youths.
On January 12, 2018, Al Jazeera English, televised a segment discussing Peter Dutton's reference to African gang violence and the response of the African community in Victoria.
On January 4, 2018, the ABC televised a news segment in which African migrants described the racism they were currently experiencing because of reports regarding African gang violence in Victoria.
On January 2, 2018, the ABC televised a segment looking at the 'African gang' issue in Victoria. Please note: some of the personal claims made by Nhial "Nelly" Yoa, one of the Sudanese interviewees, have been discredited.
On October 21, 2017, Al Jazeera English, televised a segment on racism in Australia which included statistics on the percentage of Sudanese who had experienced prejudice.
A video segment showing South Sudanese community leaders patrolling city streets on New Year's Eve, 2017, to monitor the behaviour of South Sudanese youths. During the clip South Sudanese community leader Richard Deng disputed the existence of 'Menace to Society'.
On February 8, 2018, Channel 9's Today program televised a segment on street violence and home invasions attributed to African youths.
On October 10, 2007, the ABC's Media Watch ran a segment disputing commercial media coverage of supposed Sudanese gangs.
On November 29, 2016, Andrew Bolt, as part of the Bolt Report, criticised political and media denials of the problems associated with Sudanese immigration to Australia.
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2018/04: Are the claims Victoria has an African gang problem exaggerated?
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On January 23, 2018, The Age published a reported titled 'Top cop admits police unable to "put youth crime problem to bed"'
The report details the difficulties Victoria Police confront in dealing with youth crime and the need for broader community support to address underlying causes.
The full text can be accessed at 
On January 23, 2018, the ABC published a news report titled 'What statistics can and can't tell us about Melbourne's African crime issue'
The article gives the percentage of a range of crimes committed in Vitoria committed by members of the Sudanese community.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 22, 2018, The Herald Sun published a news report titled ' Gang violence fears lead to homeowners installing bollards, spending thousands'
The report details the security precautions frightened homeowners are taking in Melbourne's western suburbs following a spate of burglaries and home invasions.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 18, 2018, The Guardian published a comment by Jason Wilson titled 'Australia's "African gang crisis" has been brewing for years'
The opinion piece outlets what it regards as the years of conservative misrepresentation of the 'African gang issue' conducted by sections of the Australia media.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 17, 2018, The Daily Telegraph published an opinion piece by Tim Blair titled 'Groups thrive in Sudan Andrews' gangless paradise'
The comment criticises the Victorian government for inaction and ridicules those who quibble over questions of definitions when describing gangs.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 15, 2018, The Age published a report titled 'Dutton, Turnbull legitimising anti-immigrant vigilantes, say experts'
The report examines concerns that recent statements about the prevalence of African gang crime may trigger vigilante responses.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 11, 2018, The Guardian published a report titled 'Melbourne police say Daily Mail provoked African "gang flare-up" scuffle'
The report accuses The Daily Mail of both misrepresenting an altercation that occurred between African youths and police in Tarneit and of having provoked the incident.
The full text can be accessed
On January 11, 2018, The Sydney Morning Herald published a report titled 'Peter Dutton steps up attack on Daniel Andrews over street gang crime in Victoria'
The report details the Home Affairs Minister's continued criticism of the Victorian government's handling of what he refers to as African gang crime in Victoria.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 11, 2018, The Australian published a report titled ' Outrage as top Victorian cop says gang crime crisis "rubbish"'
The report looks at reactions to Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton's claim that the gang problem in Victoria had been overstated.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 11, 2018, The Conversation published a comment by Melanie Baak, Convener, Migration and Refugee Research Network, University of South Australia titled 'Sudanese heritage youth in Australia are frequently maligned by fear-mongering and racism'
The opinion piece looks at the negative impact on the young Sudanese community in Australia of negative perceptions regarding youth violence.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 10, 2018, the ABC published a report titled 'Victoria Police establish African-Australian community taskforce to tackle youth crime'
The article looks at the establishment of a taskforce drawing on Sudanese community members to support Victoria Police in reducing crime committed by African youths.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 9, 2018, the ABC's site, Triple Hack, published a comment and analysis titled ''Does Victoria have an African gang crime problem?'
The analysis examined a range of data and comments and concluded that the African gang problem had been overstated.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 9, 2018, the ABC published a news report titled 'African gangs in Melbourne are a problem, police admit, as Victorian Government defends strategy'
The report details Victoria's Police Minister, Lisa Neville, defending her government's policies for the management of youth crime. It gives Sudanese crime involvement statistics.
The full text of the article can be accessed at
On January 6, 2018, The Guardian published a comment and analysis by Calla Wahlquist titled '"We're not a gang": the unfair stereotyping of African-Australians'
The article details the difficulties faced by many within the African Australian community in response to the African gang issue.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 6, 2018, The Australian published a news report titled 'African gang's reign of fear in Melbourne's West'
The report details a home invasion, street assaults and attempted burglaries in Melbourne's western suburbs apparently linked to Sudanese youths.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 6, 2018, The Australian published a comment and analysis by Rebecca Urban titled ' Streets of menace: gang violence in the suburbs'
The article reports and gives background and opinion on recent gang violence in Victoria's western suburbs.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 4, 2018, The Australian published a report titled 'Anthony Albanese accuses Peter Dutton of playing politics on gangs'
The report details the accusations made by the Opposition shadow minister.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 4, 2018, the ABC published a report titled '" There are no gangs": African community leaders in Melbourne issue challenge to Malcolm Turnbull'
The report gave the view of some African community leaders that there are no African youth gangs in Victoria.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 3, 2018, the federal Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton, gave an interview on Sydney radio station 2GB in which he criticised the Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, for leading a state government under which prison sentences were too light and 'African gang violence' was not being checked.
A full audio file of this interview can be accessed at
On January 3, 2018, The Guardian published an analysis by Calla Wahlquist titled 'Is Melbourne in the grip of African crime gangs? The facts behind the lurid headlines' The article supplies a range of statistics showing differing crime involvement rates for different sectors of Victoria's population. It backgrounds the issue and supplies a detailed timeline.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 3, 2018, The Herald Sun published an opinion piece by Dr Berhan M Ahmed, head of the African Australian Multicultural Employment and Youth Services and a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
The piece is titled 'African gangs crisis: Poverty and hopelessness producing violent crime in Melbourne'
The comment looks at social causal factors behind crime among African youth.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 2, 2018, The Sydney Morning Herald published an opinion piece by Kate Habgood who teaches Sudanese students at a Melbourne high school. The comment is titled 'African gang violence is a problem - but so is our primitive view of Africans'
The full text can be accessed at
On January 2, 2018, The Herald Sun published an opinion piece by columnist Rita Panahi titled 'A trip to Tarneit is a must for head-in-the-sand Lefties'
The comment details the vandalism and assaults that groups of Sudanese youths are claimed to have perpetrated in Tarneit. Panahi uses these events to ridicule those who claim Victoria does not have a gang crime problem involving African youths.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 2, 2018, the ABC published the transcript of an interview with Victoria's Police Minister, Lisa Neville, in which the minister discusses Victoria Police's response to gang crime, particularly that involving Sudanese youth
The full transcript can be accessed at
On December 29, 2017, The Australian published a news report titled 'Victoria Police chief forced to admit African youth gangs a problem'
The report details Victoria Police's Acting Chief Commissioner Shane Patton commenting on the manner in which Victoria Police was responding to the problem.
The full text can be accessed at
On October 19, 2017, The Herald Sun published a report titled ' Ethnic offenders 'over-represented' in youth crime population'
The report detailed the extent to which Sudanese and Islanders were over-represented in Victoria's crime statistics.
The full text can be accessed at
On April 21, 2017, The Age published an analysis by Chris Johnston titled ' New data shows African crime wave small, but rising'
The article gives statistics on the incidence of crime among African communities in Australia and suggests some possible causal factors.
The full text can be accessed at
On April 13, 2017, The Herald Sun published an Andrew Bolt blog post titled ' Police admit: Sudanese 44 times more likely to break the law'
The comment gives background on the issue of the supposed criminality of Sudanese immigrants.
The full text can be accessed at
On January 13, 2017, The Conversation published a comment by Mark Wood, PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne. The opinion piece is titled ' For gangs with a social media presence like Apex, there's no such thing as bad publicity'
It argues that high media exposure may actually engage gang criminality.
The full text can be accessed at
On November 28, 2016, the ABC published a report titled 'South Sudanese parents in Australia sending kids to school in Africa to avoid crime'
The report details the parenting problems faced by South Sudanese parents in Australia.
The full text can be accessed at
On September 19, 2016, The Conversation published a comment by Nawal El-Gack, Assistant Professor, International Studies, University of Canberra and Gabriel Yak
PhD Candidate, University of Canberra, titled 'A degree doesn't count for South Sudanese job seekers'
The comment examines the difficulty degree-holding South Sudanese have in finding employment in Australia.
The full text can be accessed at
On July 26, 2016, The Australian published an analysis by Rick Morton titled '"Failure to fit in" feeding African-linked crime surge'
The analysis looks at the impact of social isolation and economic disadvantage on African youth.
The full text can be accessed at
In June 2015, the Criminology Research Advisory Council produced a report titled '"Sudanese refugees" experiences with the Queensland criminal justice system'
The report includes a detailed account of the nature and impact of media accounts of African criminality in Australia.
The full text can be accessed at
In February 2016, The African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) published a study by Santino Atem Deng titled 'South Sudanese family dynamics and
parenting practices in Australia'
The study treats the difficulties encountered by South Sudanese parents rearing their children in Australia.
The full text can be accessed at
In February 2014, the Australian Department of Social Security published a background paper on the background and social situation of Sudanese living in Australian. The paper is titled 'The South Sudan-born Community'
The full text can be accessed at
On November 22, 2008, Crikey published a comment by Scott Steel (writing under the penname Possum Comitatus) titled ' Of race and crime and Andrew Bolt'
The comment discusses in detail Andrew Bolt's treatment of the African gang crime issue and disputes the conclusions Bolt draws.
The full text can be accessed at
On October 8, 2007, the ABC's Media Watch televised a segment titled 'Ganging Up' which challenged the accuracy of news reports on Channels 7, 9 and 10 purporting to deal with African gang violence.
The full text can be accessed at
The SAIL (Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning) Program is a volunteer-run, non-profit, secular organization which provides free English support and community services to the Sudanese Australian community.
SAIL has published a background document explaining the cultural, educational and language background of the Sudanese students with whom its volunteers work.
The full text can be accessed at
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