Doubling Down on Division is No Way to Seek Reconciliation

Linda Burney comes out of hiding to stoke the fire

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Linda Burney has been missing since the referendum.

She was nowhere to be seen when violence rocked the Aboriginal community of Wadeye last month.

Gangs of men were rampaging through the town of 2000 people, ramming police cars and brawling in the streets.

People were shot with arrows. Families fled the town in fear of their lives.

Linda Burney was unsighted.

And she was nowhere to be seen when Alice Springs locals complained last month that the violence there was as bad as ever.

Sky News showed footage of dozens of youths out in the town’s main street, stomping on and kicking a man in the head.

Six youths were shown hanging out of the windows of a stolen car as it was driven at speed through the town.

Linda Burney had nothing to offer the long-suffering residents of Alice Springs.

Hadn’t the Prime Minister visited for a few hours on his way to the Australian Open a year ago? What more do the people of Alice want?