Noble Park 3174

September 15, 2008

WITH about 60 per cent of its residents born abroad, Noble Park is one of Melbourne's most culturally diverse suburbs.

It has large Vietnamese and Cambodian communities, and in recent years has experienced a big influx of arrivals from India, Sri Lanka and Sudan...

But the area has also had its share of bad publicity involving crime and ethnic tensions.

Last year local police targeted North African youth gangs over a string of assaults and robberies.

Noble Park resident and City of Greater Dandenong councillor Alan Gordon says the publicity is disturbing for locals.

Ha ha, the "publicity is disturbing". Not the violence, no, just the publicity.