ROSE TATTOO Frontman Joins Fight Against Knife Culture
September 18, 2009, 14 years ago
Jon Pierik from Brisbanetimes.com.au is reporting:
A rock legend, prominent youth worker and a high-profile Catholic priest have joined forces to curb the growing knife culture in Australia.
ROSE TATTOO frontman Angry Anderson, Melbourne youth worker Les Twentyman and prominent Melbourne priest Father Bob Maguire called for a national awareness campaign to reverse an alarming increase in armed attacks.
Figures recently released by Victoria Police show 752 robberies in the 2008-09 financial year involved knives, a nine per cent increase on the year before.
A growing number of attacks involving teenagers on city streets and in railway stations across the country has also prompted calls for government intervention.
"There are racial issues, cultural issues, a lot of issues to face here," Mr Anderson told reporters on Friday."The real issue is, they are our kids and they are killing one another, in schools, at stations, at bus stops, at sporting events."
Mr Anderson said worried parents had approached him with their concerns.
"You talk to mums and dads - domestic violence isn't in the home any more," he said."It's out on the street."
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