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The Cronulla riots of 2005 were a series of racially motivated mob confrontations which originated in and around Cronulla, a beachfront suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Soon after the riot, ethnically motivated violent incidents occurred in several other Sydney suburbs.

On Sunday, 11 December 2005, approximately 5000 people (!!!) gathered to protest against recently reported incidents of assaults and intimidatory behaviour by groups of non-locals, most of whom were identified in earlier media reports as Middle Eastern youths from the suburbs of Western Sydney. The crowd assembled following a series of earlier confrontations, specifically an assault on three off-duty lifesavers which took place the previous weekend.The crowd initially assembled without incident, but violence broke out after a large segment of the mostly white Australian crowd chased a man of Middle Eastern appearance into a hotel and 2 other youths of Middle Eastern appearance were assaulted on a train.

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In a January 1989 (sic !!!) interview with Gerard Henderson, Howard elaborated on his reasons for opposing multiculturalism:

"The objection I have to multiculturalism is that multiculturalism is in effect saying that it is impossible to have an Australian ethos, that it is impossible to have a common Australian culture. So we have to pretend that we are a federation of cultures and that we've got a bit from every part of the world. I think that is hopeless.

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The Sydney gang rapes were a series of gang rape attacks by a group of up to fourteen Muslim Lebanese Australian men led by Bilal Skaf, against girls not of Lebanese descent, some as young as 14, in Sydney, Australia in 2000. The crimes — described as ethnically motivated hate crimes by some commentators — saw blanket media coverage, the passing of new laws, and the trumpeting of "more than 240 years" in jail time handed out to the nine men. In court transcripts, Judge Michael Finnane mused that the rapes were events "you hear about or read about only in the context of wartime atrocities".

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3 weeks ago tapes, which were obtained through an access to information request by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, recorded a conversation between two Ontario Provincial Police officers posing as a media crew during the 1995 Ipperwash standoff over a land claim dispute.

The following exchange takes place:

"Is there still a lot of press down there?" one officer says. "No, there's no one down there. Just a great big fat fucking Indian," replies another.

With this kind of sentiment it's not surprising that Police - pushed by the governing Conservative Party - killed one and beat a handful of unarmed protesters.

At the end of January the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission ruled that "Halifax police discriminated against [Black] heavyweight boxer Kirk Johnson by pulling over his car five years ago" and leaving him and his brother stranded on the side of the Highway. (CBC.ca) CTV reported "Johnson, a 31-year-old former Olympian, told the inquiry he was stopped in his sports car by local police 29 times in a three-month period spread over 1997 and 1998." (CTV.ca)

In Ottawa ten days ago, a minor confrontation between a handful of white and Somali men led one of the white men to call the police claiming he'd seen one of the Black men with a gun and another a hammer. Within minutes 25 police officers arrived to the Somali owned restaurant where the men returned to and arbitrarily arrested everyone in the place except for the lone white person. Then the police allowed the white men, who had been participants in the earlier conflict and who weren't handcuffed, to the Restaurant's door to point out the alleged wrongdoers. The Somali owner became enraged by this double standard and the police responded forcefully. The Ottawa Citizen reports "officers threw him against the bar, choked him and wrenched his arm behind his back." 8 men, all of them black, were taken to jail. "Some of them were released after five hours and some were freed early the next morning. None of them was charged." (Citizen Feb 5) And no weapons were found.


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