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What's the deal with these riots in Sydney? You switch on the television and there's scenes of urban conflagration and you think, "Hang on, I saw this story last month." But no. They were French riots. These are Australian riots. Entirely different. The French riots were perpetrated by - what's the word? - "youths". The Australian riots were perpetrated by "white youths". Same age cohort, but adjectivally enhanced. And, being "white youths", they thus offered "a chilling glimpse into the darker corners of Australian society", as Nick Squires put it last week, "with thousands of white youths rampaging through a...

SOME are hunkering down to brave out the nights of terror. For others the rioting, baseball bats and fear of rape and murder have proved too much to bear. But life won't be the same for anyone living in the one-time beachside idyll of Cronulla. Already some families are packing their bags - the first refugees of Sydney's ugliest race attacks. Those who are staying are living in fear of where the next wave of attacks will occur. Construction worker Howard Beale, whose family survived a frightening raid by youths of Middle Eastern descent on Monday night, is at breaking...

Quadrant Magazine Society January 2004 - Volume XLVIII Number 1-2 Back to contents... The Rise of Middle Eastern Crime in Australia Tim Priest I BELIEVE that the rise of Middle Eastern organised crime in Sydney will have an impact on society unlike anything we have ever seen. In the early 1980s, as a young detective I was attached to the Drug Squad at the old CIB. I remember executing a search warrant at Croydon, where we found nearly a pound of heroin. I know that now sounds very familiar; however, what set this heroin apart was that it was Beaker...

PRESTIGIOUS law firm Allens Arthur Robinson is standing by 10 of its brightest young lawyers despite their role in an e-mail catfight that has seen two secretaries sacked. Katrina Nugent and Melinda Bird lost their jobs over the cyber stoush, but at least 10 qualified lawyers who joined in the sledges are still reporting to work. As revealed by The Daily Telegraph yesterday, the secretaries were sacked after a catty e-mail exchange in which one woman boasted of being better looking and having five boyfriends. The fight began after Ms Nugent sent an e-mail to her 19th-floor colleagues at Allens'...

HEALTH Minister Tony Abbott says he is disappointed by the cancellation of a debate at a New South Wales university on the Government's controversial voluntary student unionism (VSU) legislation due to police concerns over his safety. Mr Abbott has been forced to withdraw from today's debate at Sydney University after the NSW Police Service admitted it could not guarantee his safety. In an unprecedented move, a senior NSW police officer wrote to Mr Abbott instructing him to cancel his debate with Labor MP Julia Gillard due to an unacceptably high risk of violence by protesters. But Mr Abbott today said...

Dozens of youths in Sydney's south-west hurled petrol bombs at riot police in a third night of violence last night over the death of two teenagers in a police pursuit. In wild scenes near Eucalyptus Drive, Macquarie Fields - where their friends died on Friday night - teenagers and young men screamed at about 100 police: "You killed our mates, you f---ing pigs. You deserve to die too." Residents of Rosewood Drive clapped and cheered as a policeman was knocked down and could not get up, as a youth hit him with a heavy plank of wood. By 1am today...