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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.

In fact Chicago seems to be pretty peaceful when the issue race-related riots comes up.

Quite right. I apologise to anyone from Chicago I may have inadvertently offended.

Sydney is quite conservative (politically, not socially) on many things

Sorry but New South Wales (of which Sydney is both the capital and the largest city by FAR) has a Labor Party Government (our equivalent in Australia of the RATS, for our US friends) and has had for quite some time. If they're conservative, why aren't they VOTING that way?

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.

Witness, for instance, the New Zealand militant Maori, and the ones who expect handouts just because they got there a couple of hundred years before Captain Cook. To be blunt, this riotous and frankly vile behaviour is Aboriginal separatism rearing its ugly head in one of the inner suburbs of Australia's largest city, where a large proportion of the population are low-income Aboriginals. It's not my fault most of the left-leaning media in this country are too afraid to print the word "Aboriginal" and call it what it is... a race riot.

As I believe I've mentioned before, this sort of thing is frightening. On many levels.