You're not British are you?

How do you know they were white the police did not reveal their race. The suburbs where it happened was very multicultural with many ethnic gangs. The police said it was a robeery and not racially motivated. l don't think theres ever been a murder of an Indain where racism was proven as the motive. ALmost all the murders of Indians in Australia have been carried out by other Indians.

Even Asians can attack.. Look at the attackers images below
Attackers of Melbourne

Ok fair enough I was incorrect to assume that it was racially motivated. But it's been well documented that 7-8 white youths were involved and that's why it took ages originally lay charges.

Where are the documents?

That is the best summary of this country that I have read to date.

yet it's the white as white surfer dudes that you see shouting "f#ck off we're full" on Australia Day. No sign of Aborignal people or Lebanese people.

That's not specifically racist though, more nationalistic and jingoistic and done in an aggressive manner.

Still not acceptable behaviour in society and you certainly won't see the average Australian in the street telling people to '***** off we're full', it is more the bogan element of society involved in that.

As others have mentioned, some Australians carry such a massive chip on their shoulder (insecurity) that they even discriminate towards people from other states and make hostile and derogatory comments towards them. These people would be part of that same bogan element that are involved in overt casual racism in Australian society.

I admit, a lot of people in Australia think these things and may express them in private among friends and family out of frustration mainly or even fear of the local culture becoming watered down, as one of the recent posters described is common in the UK as well, but very rarely will someone (the average Australian person) actually discriminate or act in a hostile manner towards any individual or group of people of ethnic origin purely because of their ethnicity.

That would make Australians a***holes to put it bluntly and no one would want to live here or be able to tolerate it for more than one second. Clearly this is not the case.

Even many Russians perceive Australia as a racist country and believe me Russians dont know a thing about Australia:-) I remember an agent in my hometown in Russia in the late 90-s recommended going to study English to Canada rather than to Australia because Australia was a very racist country and I would be uncomfortable there:-) I do remember riots in Cronulla on TV rather vividly:-)

Dont think Australia is that racist as its perceived, especially after Russia

Oh thanks for that:-)

Those riots in Crounlla were the results of a turf war..... I dont expect you to believe that, but its a fact.

You really need to read this. If it were a race riot, people other than gang members would have been targetted.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinio...84.html?page=2

I suspect that's true... when I went back to Scotland a couple of years ago, there was definite tension over the sudden influx of Eastern Europeans. Over here, it's us! My OH's (British) South African and he's had the usual stuff about stealing Aussie jobs, F off back home etc... one guy refused to deal with him at work at all. Idiots everywhere, I guess

The cronulla riots were shown overseas as racist Aussies attacking innocent people of anoter race, what they did'nt say that it was a group of people who were sick of everytime they went to the beach being bashed and their wives and girlfriends harrassed by gangs of lebanese and being called sl..ts and whores becasue they were'nt all covered up in muslim garb and they had had enough. l dont think most of the were racists l think they were pushed too far and they snapped

...so they picked on and attacked anyone who wasn't white or pledge allegiance to the Australian flag. You should watch the ABC's Four Corners "Riot and Revenge" before you go fully believing the version of events you just described.

If you were nearby you would also know there were Pacific Islanders gangs who got in on the action. It was not exclusively white.

You also forget to mention that the Lebs went around stabbing and attempting to rape people afterwards.

For years the Lebs have run rampant without serious Police action, so the locals snapped and went psycho. This is what happens to a community when they are ignored. It is the first signs of societal collapse leading to revolution and civil war.