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12/13/2005:

"Revenge attacks bring second night of race violence to Sydney"

Australia was last night in the grip of its worst race clashes since independence, with youths battering cars and shattering shop windows as violence spread through Sydney's suburbs for a second day.

The attacks came in retaliation for Sunday's violence, in which 5,000 people rampaged across Cronulla beach chanting racist slogans, leaving more than 40 police officers injured. Members of the crowd had wrapped themselves in the Australian flag and chanted: "No more Lebs [Lebanese]", attacking men and women of Middle Eastern appearance. Several victims were evacuated in police vans.

...But Mr Howard denied there was any "underlying racism" behind the events.
guardian.co.uk

...except for the vicious racism that established the country in the first place...