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oldfart was replying to Tjeras_Slim's comment about an entirely different story about anarchists, which has NOTHING to do with this story.

The anarchists in question are probably white, and reside in Melbourne, a town in a different state and fully 600 miles away from where the incident this thread is about took place. In other words, the two stories are NOT related.

This is a race-related thing, you're right, ARA. Just like the LA riots post-Rodney King verdict.

In fact Chicago seems to be pretty peaceful when the issue race-related riots comes up. Detroit (city, not the suburb) and New Orleans are much worse (and Cleveland was). LA seems to be on the edge for quite some time but I heard things have been cooling down ever since it has a new Police Commissioner in 2001 and also presumably because the spectre of 9/11 and terrorism have tamed these things.

Sydney is quite conservative (politically, not socially) on many things, and to be blunt I suspect this type of riot comes up when a group of minority accepts victimized status and blames other people for their woes, and refusing to accept personal responsbilities. They were just making excuses to riot and to "raise their grievances".

And the leader of an Australian state is indeed the Premier. Governor is basically a symbolic post appointed by the Queen, nominated by the state Premier.