(Australian) Race attacks spread to Perth, Adelaide

rooboy

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Tue Dec-13-05 03:44 AM
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(Australian) Race attacks spread to Perth, Adelaide

Attacks on a Middle Eastern family in Perth and a Lebanese Australian taxidriver in Adelaide have been linked to Sydney's race violence.

In an alarming sign Sydney's race-fuelled problems may be spreading, a family of Middle Eastern origin was attacked in Perth by a group of 11 Caucasian men, who threw eggs, shouted abuse and kicked the garage door.

The 42-year-old father of the Kewdale family, who does not want to be identified, said his family was badly shaken by last night's incident.

"I don't know if we were mistakenly identified," he told ABC Radio.

"What I definitely know is it was something linked to the escalation in NSW."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/race-attacks-spread-to-perth-adelaide/2005/12/13/1134236057842.html

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Nothing Without Hope

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Tue Dec-13-05 04:13 AM
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1. Related thread on the 2nd day of the Sydney violence:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1982815
thread title (12/12 LBN): BBC: Second night of riots hits Sydney (Target: Arabs, Mediterranean

I've also cross-posted there with a link to the current thread.

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Polemonium

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Tue Dec-13-05 08:06 AM
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2. The long slow slide of Australian society has sped up a bit?

Broad paint brush I know, but hard to imagine this kind of thing happening 10 years ago. I thought racism was on the out in Australia, that those genocidal colonial days were well and truly gone. Big R racism was just a thing for the remote stations.

Truely depressing couple of days and hard to not to get dramatic.

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