Steve Price: Kyle Sandilands finally talking sense when it comes to immigration

As unlikely as it would seem, Kyle Sandilands this week made a hell of a lot of sense talking about immigration and why we deserve to know the background of violent youth offenders.

As unlikely as it would seem, FM radio presenter Kyle Sandilands this week made a hell of a lot of sense talking about the touchy subject of immigration.

Stay with me because the permanently smutty Sandilands is a deep thinker when it comes to a range of social issues including our youth crime crisis and the riots we see unfolding in Los Angeles.

This is not me being kind after a face-to-face studio encounter with Kyle in Sydney this week.

Rather, it was his response to me after I told him parents of at least two teenagers caught up in Melbourne’s gang wars want their teenage boys sent back to Africa for their own safety.

Sandilands made the point that finally, authorities desperately trying to get on top of our youth crime crisis might be seeing the light.

As he said, every effort is made by arresting police and newsrooms to disguise these alleged criminals’ ethnic backgrounds.

Kyle Sandilands is finally talking sense.

We are then left with a machete wielding young male – rarely females – of no exact age, disguised, presumably to satisfy our state Labor government’s absolute fear that in truth many of these dangerous teenage thugs are the children of African migrants.

As revealed in the Saturday Herald Sun a week ago, in two examples, parents of a pair of separate youth offenders who ended up in the Children’s court pleaded with the magistrate to let them send their sons back to Africa.

Bail conditions and supervised sentences meant the parents had to ask the court for something quite remarkable.

According to the report, the parents felt their sons would be safer and out of harm’s way by returning to a country they themselves fled for a safer and quieter life in Australia.

Case one involved a family recently arrived from South Africa.

The parents told the court the teenager had fallen in with a group responsible for a string of car thefts, ram raids, armed robberies and cigarette thefts. Serious repeated offending.

The teen’s lawyer told the court he typically served as the getaway driver but also played a more violent role.

The boy was clocked by the police air-wing driving at speeds of up to 170km/h after targeting milk bars and petrol stations and stealing up to $100,000 of cigarettes to sell on the black market.

Parents of a pair of separate youth offenders have pleaded with a magistrate to let them send their sons back to Africa.

In a second separate case, also dealing with crimes including car thefts and armed robbery, the teenager’s parents sought court orders to be allowed to send their son back to Uganda to live with relatives.

The family were so determined this happened that they booked seats home for the offender and his father, only for the boy to somehow slip away at the airport leaving his father alone on the flight.

As implausible as that seems, the offending son is then alleged to have committed a series of yet more burglaries and car thefts before being arrested again and locked up in a Youth Justice Centre in Parkville.

These are just two cases of the out-of-control gang culture that has overtaken Melbourne.

As my conversation with Sandilands revealed though, the proponents of mass immigration from around the world to Australia, predominantly to Melbourne and Sydney, don’t want the public to focus on the social upheaval some of this migration is causing.

Why else would those running our various police forces, when asking for public assistance to track down violent offenders, drop the descriptors like of African or Middle Eastern appearance.

Kyle agrees with me that we should bring back ethnic descriptors.

An out-of-control gang culture has overtaken Melbourne. Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui

Now I’m not suggesting all or even a lot of these gang offenders fit the description of African or Middle Eastern, but sure as hell I am suggesting some are.

How often do we need to see expensive home-purchased security camera vision of hooded, tall males brandishing machetes or other weapons and think to ourselves, I wonder where that violent kid comes from?

It’s a fair bet when migrant parents, like those in court last week, admit they have lost control over their children we have a massive problem.

Presumably back home – in this case Uganda or South Africa – the family structure was such that these youth crime offenders would face the music from their peers and not offend, or else.

Those same parents must look at the law-and-order policies of the state – in our case Victoria – that they have chosen to move to and shake their heads.

I’m not familiar with the Ugandan justice system but does anyone believe that an African nation’s courts would repeatedly – in some cases 30 or 40 times – grant bail to youth offenders who terrorise residents in their own homes in the dead of night, stealing cars and sparking dangerous high-speed chases?

Having visited South Africa several times I don’t believe police there would tread softly- softly around ram raiders or tobacco shop arsonists.

Victoria is in the middle of a youth crime crisis. Picture: Josie Hayden

The violent youth crime crisis we are in the middle of – with no sign of it being stomped on by current policing of government policies – must end. Perhaps one of the ways to prevent it getting worse, outside of tougher bail laws and tougher policing, is to pose the question we are not supposed to contemplate.

So here it is: How about pushing pause on mass migration and have a national debate on where Australia ought to be drawing its migrant populations from.

On that question it seems to me that one of the largest cohorts moving here come from India, and I don’t see the teenage sons and daughters of Indian migrants forming crime gangs or working for outlaw motorcycle gangs.

We do have decades of evidence that large parts of organised crime both here and in NSW is controlled by Middle Eastern crime gangs.

It would seem some of these gangs are behind Melbourne’s tobacco wars with reports firebombings are even ordered from crime figures living offshore in the Middle East.

These same gangs, police believe, are behind recruiting some of these teenagers to carry out their illegal activities, knowing the age of the offenders means they are unlikely to end up in jail.

As with my discussion with Kyle, don’t we deserve to know the background of these violent offenders so we can have an informed debate about a solution?

It’s not racial profiling as the do-gooders from the Left would allege, it’s called informed debate and something Kyle and I agree should happen.

Likes

— Surprising Kyle Sandilands in his Sydney radio studio for a rousing debate on his birthday.

— Melbourne’s F1 Grand Prix retains the opening race of 2026.

— Prahran’s Mt Erica Hotel and its Tuesday night $25 steak special.

— UK Labor Government embracing nuclear energy making the Albanese attitude look even more silly.

Dislikes

— Death of musical genius Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys at age 82.

— The Project on Network Ten dropped after 16 years and my home on Monday night for 15 of those years.

— Merri-bek Council debate over funding overseas carbon offset programs with ratepayers’ money.

— Snowy 2.0 spending $400,000 on a frog protection program.

Originally published as Steve Price: Kyle Sandilands finally talking sense when it comes to immigration