Tuesday, December 13, 2005
PEOPLE FEELING ALIENATED
A reporter questions Prime Minister John Howard on the Cronulla riots:
Reporter: “Do you think anything the Government said over the last few years has set the tone for the actions on the weekend?”
PM: “Which Government?”
Reporter: “Your Government.”
PM: “My Government?”
Reporter: “Yes.”
PM: “Certainly not. What do you have in mind?”
Reporter: “Your position on Iraq.”
PM: “My position on Iraq?”
Reporter: “Do you think that’s had any influence on people feeling alienated?”
PM: “My position on Iraq? You’ve got to be joking.”
Via the Sydney Morning Herald’s Alan Ramsey, who plainly believes Howard to be at fault.
UPDATE. An online item by the SMH’s Andrew West in which he asked if “maybe the problem is certain forms of Islam” and questioned some aspects of multiculturalism appears to have been removed from his archives.