Melbourne’s “family-friendly” Moomba Festival is disrupted when street fights break out. The response to the events of the night spark a wave of unsubstantiated, heavily racialised media narratives about “African gangs”. A Report exploring the effects of media narratives on the young people of Melbourne’s South Sudanese community is released. – ‘Don’t Drag Me Into This’: Growing up South Sudanese in Victoria after the 2016 Moomba ‘Riot.
