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Just why a municipal council feels that catering multi-faith get-togethers is a responsibility of local government — or any government, for that matter — is a question to pique the curiosity of residents whose rates and taxes underwrite such exercises. What we do know is that these affairs can be very hard to get right.
Consider the pickle Sydney’s Liverpool Council landed itself in when, rather than keeping its focus on collecting garbage and rounding up stray dogs, it laid out a flash spread of multi-culti taste sensations intended to promote cross-ethnic amity and understanding. We all know the spiel: Australia is so much richer, more peaceful and united because someone else is paying to feed local worthies with a pot-luck lunch of vindaloo falafels, chow mein moussaka and monkey glands a la Caribe.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports:
“Mr Dzepovski said pork is special to the Macedonian community and in historical terms played a large part in their lives under Ottoman rule. To some members of the community it had become a symbol of their survival as pork was their main meat staple for hundreds of years.
So when it was left off the menu for the Liverpool Council lunch it sparked complaints and an article in the online newsite Falanga.com.au which complained about the “discriminatory policy of the Municipality of Liverpool”.
A translation of the article said that the council was discriminating against Orthodox people (including Macedonian, Serbian, Russian and Greek Orthodox), due to the council’s current Islamic leadership.”
