As the Victorian state election looms, talk about our health system and its under-resourced hospitals, energy prices, public transport and the cost of living is rife. For some, though, the election is a reminder of how – just four years ago – whole communities were made to feel as though they didn’t belong in the place they had grown up, in the place they were raising their children.
The panic about Melbourne’s so-called “African gangs” in the lead-up to the 2018 election left whole communities reeling with fear and suspicion.
