EX NM AND MEDIA WATCH MARCH 2008

 

 

 

https://www.google.com.au/#q=media+watch+somali+broadmeadows

 

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/1139_australian2.pdf

 

 

 

 

https://www.google.com.au/#q=media+watch+somali+

 

 

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2197803.htm

Episode 6, 24 March 2008

 

In other words, the table tells us that Somali-born people were involved in 283 alleged offences. But it doesn't tell us the number of people involved, because some individuals committed more than one offence.

Liam Houlihan should have looked at a different set of figures, headed "Distinct Alleged Offenders". 

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And it's not 283, but just 115. Not one in 9 Somali-born Victorians, but one in 23. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?

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Well, especially on a topic like this, "believed" doesn't cut it. The Sunday Herald Sun should have checked its analysis with the police statisticians, and they didn't. The result was a beat up on a much more sensitive topic than the price of copper wire.

 

 

 

 

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