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Flat White

Ultimo must fall

15 June 2020

5:00 AM

15 June 2020

5:00 AM

Over the weekend, we saw police officers being punched, kicked and spat on.

We saw riots, looting, property destroyed and statues ripped down and vandalised.  

In Britain, Boris Johnson condemned acts of “racist thuggery”, saying such behaviour had “no place on our streets”.  

In Australia, Scott Morrison slammed vandals who attacked the statues of Tony Abbott and John Howard at the Prime Ministers Avenue in Ballarat as “pathetic”.   

One would hope that our national broadcaster would echo such sentiments?  

Nope.  

Take it away, Julia Baird, host of the(ir) ABC’s The Drum…

Writing in Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday, she described toppling statues as “enriching not erasing”,...

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