This week we reached a new frontier of the fun-policing many in New South Wales have come to expect: an announcement so stunningly inane it could only have been written by Mad Libs. This time, *spins wheel* rap music has been banned! From where? *Spins wheel* Sydney’s Royal Easter show! But why? *Spins wheel* Gang violence!
The crackdown is part of a joint safety effort by Easter show organisers and NSW police, after the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old Easter show employee last year. The police, of course, must respond – but their statement this week blaming “violent crime” on hip-hop borders on self-parody.
