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"Police units in Ballarat were attending another incident at the time," the statement said.

Probably busy strip searching children. Or is that just a NSW police thing?

Cr Hudson acknowledged that the transport interchange on Little Bridge Street had been a problem for "a long, long time" and said that recently, some of the seating and shelters had been removed to try to address antisocial behaviour in the area.

Oh, yeah, destroying infrastructure, that will resolve society's problems. /s

ah the good ol' chant of "yeah we know it's a bad area and we know the ferals in question we just can't do anything about it because mumble mumble"

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A father who was assaulted and racially abused while visiting Ballarat with his young daughter, who lives with a disability, says he may never return to the regional Victorian city.

The Nugagahakumbura family's trip from Melbourne was not easy to plan; 12-year-old Anuli lives with cerebral palsy, uses a wheelchair, is blind and needed to be accompanied by a carer.

Thusitha Nugagahakumbura said he, his wife Neelanthi Munasinghe, Anuli and her carer were heading back to their car after a day of sightseeing when a group of boys started shouting at them, and a metal chain was hurled at the girl's face.

Mr Nugagahakumbura, whose family has lived in Melbourne since they came to Australia a decade ago, said Anuli's carer heard the group shouting racial slurs during the attack, which occurred in early October.

Kate Skinner, who raced to intervene when the assault occurred, told ABC Statewide Drive the area near Coles on Peel Street was a known trouble spot.

He also said the lack of surveillance footage concerned him, and that the area would receive a CCTV upgrade when improvements to Bridge Mall were made.

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