Albo’s Aboriginal Australia
Yarrabah one of Australia’s most pampered Aboriginal communities south east of Cairns is unable to stop their youth wrecking police cars and ambulances with rocks.
Local LNP state member of parliament Terry James said police are “unable to arrest kids out of this situation.”
Rocking and smashing government cars has been ongoing since 2017 when Yarrabah’s security department was shut down overnight after a security guard required emergency facial surgery for a broken jaw and lost several teeth.
In 2019 health workers had to enter town under police escort after being hit with lead sinkers during street brawls.
The violence escalated in 2020 causing emergency services to be shut down after a vehicle carrying nursing staff was targeted.
Attacks flared again in 2025 when a healthcare worker was injured after a bus window was smashed and in May a cop was injured after rocks smashed his police car.
Well, not to worry said the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service the attacks were decreasing in spite of the Yarrabah Health Services issuing a warning on Facebook Jan 13, when an emergency services vehicle was targeted several times in one week.
Mr James supported health staff telling Yarrabah officials the community would soon lose services, an empty threat which is like water on a duck’s back in Aboriginal communities.
They know one call to a Labor member would see a cavalcade of medicos and ambulances descend on the community like a nest of ants, rocks or sinkers notwithstanding.
Youths from the Yarrabah community are believed by Cairns residents to be largely responsible for 808 far northern car thefts in 2025 and 41 already stolen in January this year, without mentioning home invasions, break and enters, robberies, street violence, drunkenness and general mayhem.
In 2024-25 Yarrabah Council received a total of $69 million in grant funding and an incalculable amount paid by Centrelink Services to the 2500 (approx) community members as sit down money.
Cairns federal Labor member Matt Smith has been unable to do anything to ameliorate the crisis, and just like Albanese believes the ‘poor blackfella me’ mob are misunderstood.
Yarrabah kids should be thankful there are no ICE agents in Queensland.
