Dear Shadow Minister,

Thank You for you good wishes. I'll be going into
hospital this afternoon.

I've just received several articles from New Matilda.
They are distressing to say the least.
What do you think of them?

http://newmatilda.com/2016/07/22/australias-racism-problem-is-a-growing-
emergency/

And -

http://newmatilda.com/2016/07/26/nt-juvenile-prison-abuse-the-most-shocking-part-is-that-anyone-is-actually-shocked

Foxy,

My disdain for the New Matilda is due to shoddy journalistic work, its cherry picking of facts and its complete failure to even try and hide its far left whinge bias.

For example this gem: "In her maiden speech to Parliament, Hanson called for the abolition of ATSIC. In 2004, the Howard government put that plan into action." Is pure BS. What the authors fail to mention is that in spite of efforts to reform ATSIC, it was clear that the members were using the funds corruptly and the infighting paralysed the organisation to the point that it did almost nothing, and that the Labor opposition also urged Howard to dismantle it.

Secondly the article completely fails to deal with the main reason for Islamophobia which is the Islamic extremist terrorism which while mostly targeting other muslims in other countries, is now frequently targeting soft targets in western countries. And as most sharks don't target humans, people would prefer to swim with dolphins than sharks.