Sydney gang rapes,

http://www.news.com.au/national-old/we-cant-forget-and-well-never-forgive-skaf-rape-victims-ten-years-on/story-e6frfkvr-1225887337321

Ashfield

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashfield_gang_rapes

O sung, I couldn't find the Victorian study, I had it saved on my old computer which is gone now and chances are it wasn't titled in the way I remember it, but read this article from 2011:
newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/sex-australian-prisons-facts

"Contrary to portrayals of jails as sexually rampant places, a survey by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) found only 7% of male prisoners had had sex with another prisoner, while for female prisoners the number was higher at around one-third. And when sex did happen it was overwhelmingly consensual".

"Sexual coercion seems to be a disappearing phenomenon in prisons," said co-author of the study, Professor Basil Donovan, who is head of the Sexual Health Program at UNSW's Kirby Institute*.

"Only 2.5% of male prisoners and 3.9% of female prisoners reported that they had been forced or frightened into unwanted sexual activity. For almost half of those who reported coercion, this had only occurred once and for some the event dated back decades.

On the beach,
The Sydney gang rapes are a good case in point, they should be taught in schools everywhere. I know not all the girls raped in those cases were White but it's a good cautionary tale for young White girls who willingly associate with non White Males.
Again, however I'm at pains to point out the glaring discrepancies in offending and victimisation between racial and ethnic groups in other majority European countries but alas (and we know why) such statistics are not made available by the Australian authorities.
Oslo and London have had horrifying gang rape problems but their governments are open enough to admit that the perpetrators are overwhelmingly non White males.
What would Australia's crime rates look like when broken down by race and ethnic background?
Before any of the "Anti Racists" start wobbling their jowls I need to put my remarks in context. Immigration is about MONEY, the reason we don't have an accurate yearly breakdown of crimes by ethnic background is because it would call into question the immigration program and threaten the multi billions of dollars in profits earned from the annual influx of migrants. Anti Racists don't control the flow of information even though they are responsible for most of the disinformation surrounding race and ethnicity, corporate and state interests are the ones trying to shape our perception of society in order to protect their own economic/political interests.

Good afternoon to you BANJO...

I know Bankstown and environs very well indeed - Punchbowl, Wiley Park, Lakemba, Campsie, and Belmore, the list goes on ! My old stamping grounds in uniform back in those halcyon days where there was a certain degree of peace and tolerance, which was exercised by all those who lived in the area.

And to be truthful with you BANJO, it's only the existance of the enormously powerful 'Politically Correct ('secret') Police' that prevents me from describing that area to you ACCURATELY, as it is today !

And contemporaneously with my typing of this piece, I hear on 2GB Radio of another shooting dead of a man, in a South West Sydney suburb (Claymore?), about 1605hrs, this day ? The city seems to be plunging into a veritable middle eastern war zone ? It's little wonder then, why so many women no longer feel safe in this, Australia's largest City ? It's a real indictment on, both government and police !

But to return to your question, I don't recall that specific instance with the media. But I can assure you, often police will seek the media's help in all manner of communication issues. Though it's always (the media's) their call as to what they print or broadcast. Though media and police don't always enjoy a happy union either. I recall one matter some time ago now, where police sought co-oporation from media, NOT to broadcast some facts, and they did ? Thus compromising a fairly sensitive enquiry.

Thanks for your contribution BANJO.

o sung wu,
I may go back a bit further than you. when i was a teen and visiting Sydney, Col Joye used to play regularly at Bankstown on Saturday nights and the area was a normal working class suburb and we enjoyed good clean fun at the dances. Meet girls and walk them home after.

But on to year 2000
I was upset when I heard about the media not acting on the police advice to the public because it seems to me they were putting the Olympics ahead of the safety of girls in the area. I think if they were aware, the girls would have taken more precautions. It is not as though there was only one attack, as there were many. No doubt there were attacks not reported and it would be naive to think the police got all the attackers. I do not hold the media in very high regard.

Hi there CONSTANCE, welcome to the Topic...

You're so right about all those beautiful Hollywood Actresses, who regularly featured on our silver screens almost weekly. Always looked so elegant, beautifully dressed, hair nicely coiffured, walked and talked like a real Star. Another word I'd like to add to your summation of these beautiful ladies, is 'class' ? They dressed, behaved and spoke with such class. There was never the need to resort to intemperate language, not when they possessed so much talent and bona fide class.

Your remarks apropos 'feminism' too, bears some comment. I realise they have a certain position on many things that impact upon women per se. Further, I understand they're quite vocal even forthright on issues of sexuality, eroticism and lust etc. And they can be particularly critical of the entire male gender, also.

However, I totally agree with them on the crime of RAPE. No human being should ever suffer the human indignity of a sexual assault however slight, or for whatever reason, or perpetrated by ANYONE !

CONSTANCE, your recounting of your time in India was interesting. I've been there severally times myself, but I must say I've not suffered the same level of attention as you ? Is it a cultural thing ? Or simply a case of sheer ignorance ? I've not been there since the early 1980's so I can't recall if there's been any significant shift in their behaviour towards western women ?

Your Dad was in the job too ? His remarks about domestic violence, and the victims thereof, often taking the offenders back into the matrmonial home, is interesting and often quite true. Though,in my experience there was an awful amount of recidivism going on behind closed doors, regrettably ?

Amazingly, we'd often have to attend the same complainant's address, the very next night, because the husband/boy friend had resumend his drinking, thus he started to bash the poor women once more. The awful circle of domestic violence.