How Dare They Come for the Better Suburbs?

There’s no migrant enormity so egregious that the legacy media won’t hand-wave away or flatly deny – until it affects them. Comedian Jimmy Tingle once characterised it as, ‘Oh, you get AIDS from gay sex and injecting drugs? Who cares. Wait, you can catch it off prostitutes? We must do something!’

We’re seeing exactly the same sudden turnaround on Victoria’s African crime wave, as the elites realise with shock that their beloved ‘refugees’ are suddenly swarming their upper-class suburbs, machetes in hand. Just like that, the legacy media elites who sneered that African gangs didn’t exist are freaking out (even as they persist in trying to keep up appearances by not naming the problem).

Burglars are targeting Melbourne’s upmarket neighbourhoods in record numbers, with one area in the city’s east hit with an eightfold increase in aggravated home burglaries over the past decade.

When they talk about aggravated burglaries in Melbourne, they mean Africans. As Victoria Police data shows, Africans are an astonishing 8600 per cent more likely to be charged with aggravated assault than the general population. And that’s just the African-born. Victoria refuses to collect crime data by ethnicity, only by country of origin. So, a Sudanese born in Australia is lumped under ‘Australian’, as if they’re the same as Tarquin Hypenated-Surname from North Fitzroy.

The council areas of Boroondara, Bayside and Stonnington all recorded a 10-year high in residential aggravated burglary rates last year, according to figures from the Crime Statistics Agency, making them the state’s aggravated break-in hotspots […]

The statewide incident rate for residential aggravated burglaries last year was the second-highest on record (2024 was the worst year), at 88.1 per 100,000 people, up from 56.1 in 2016.

Not that the legacy media cared much about that when it was just affecting the ‘deplorable’ suburbs.

They’re still dodging, though.

Criminologist Dr Brianna Chesser linked the surging crime rates in Melbourne’s prestige suburbs to organised groups of adults and young people targeting places with known “high-value items”.

‘Organised groups’: yet another weasel-word phrase, similar to Victoria Police’s infamous ‘networked criminal offenders’. Why can’t these poltroons just say ‘gangs’?

She said aggravated burglaries have a significant impact on the families that goes well beyond stolen property and damage to windows and doors.

“The emotional toll is huge, with some victims being physically hurt by offenders, developing psychological conditions such as adjustment disorder or post-traumatic disorder, but most importantly, they have had their privacy invaded and their sense of safety shattered.”

Oh, now they’re concerned? It was a different story, just a few years ago.

In 2022, businesswoman and influencer Rebecca Judd took aim at the state government over “rapes, bashings and home invasions at the hands of gangs in Bayside”.

The social media post drew a response from then-premier Daniel Andrews, who replied: “I’m sorry she feels that way; the data will tell a different story.”

However, the aggravated burglary data has consistently backed Judd. Between 2022 and 2025, residential aggravated burglary rates in Bayside, which includes Judd’s home suburb of Brighton, have more than doubled.

Yet, despite the data telling the same story for years, the legacy media tune was very, very different. Just a few years ago, the Age was leading the pack of sneerers, denying that there was any crime wave at all, let alone an African one.

For more than two years, a whirlwind of media and political commentary had placed us in the grip of an African gang “reign of fear” – a supposed daily frenzy of home invasions, carjackings and street riots. And then, we weren’t […]

Despite police describing those involved as a “United Nations” of Melbourne youth, state-based and national media, the Herald-Sun in particular, went into overdrive over the “riot” and alleged “African” violence.

That’s because police were lying through their teeth and everyone knew it. Remember, it was Victoria Police who flatly denied that Africans are over-represented in violent crimes, despite their own data. Victoria Police data shows unequivocally that the African-born, not counting all ethnic Africans, are 29 times more likely to commit assaults, 86 times more likely to commit aggravated burglary and 50 times more likely to commit car theft.

In fact, Africans are 12 times more likely to commit crimes, overall, than any other group.

Suddenly, though, the elite luvvies are suddenly noticing the crime wave. Because now it’s in their poncy suburbs.