Current street violence trends 'un-Australian'

Ageing rocker Angry Anderson, 63, reckons taking weapons to a fight is un-Australian:

"You never kick a bloke when he's down . . . you don't gang up on a bloke. These things are Australian and we shouldn't shy away from being Australian."

The father of four said he had taught his sons these principles and said "other cultures" had introduced weapons, including the Lebanese, Indochinese and Pacific Islanders.

"We have to acknowledge that they have a different view about how they deal with each other," he said.

Anderson's politically incorrect views have been rejected, of course, as pure fantasy. Yet it is only recently that the king hit and blade weapons have become a prominent feature of street violence.