Racism or patriotism? An eyewitness account of the Cronulla demonstration of 11 December 2005

People and Place

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-85

  Barclay, Ryan ^a   West, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CONFLICT; RACIAL SEGREGATION; RACISM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33748757917     PISSN: 10394788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. R. Ward, The Australian Legend,
2. cited in M. Galvin and P. West, A Changing Australia, Sydney, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988, p. 37
3. Quoted in J. Carroll, The Blessed Country: Australian Dreaming 1901-2001, in Alfred Deakin Lectures, Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) Books, Sydney, 2001, p. 1
4. ibid., p. 2.
5. See also J. Carroll (Ed.), Intruders in the Bush: The Australian Quest for Identity, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1982.
6. Carroll, op. cit., p. 7
7. Galvin and West, p. 97
8. ibid., p. 186.
9. N. Young, and C. McGregor, The History of Surfing, Palm Beach, Palm Beach Press, 1985, pp. 2-8
10. One of the authors has surfed at Cronulla for the last twelve years.
11. P. Sheehan,'A hot, wet trail - yet police remain clueless in Cronulla', Sydney Morning Herald, 30 January, 2006, p. 9
12. ibid.
13. Personal communication from a local resident
14. D. King and D. Box, 'Racist mobs hunt in packs in beach war', The Australian, 12 December, 2005
15. P. Sheehan, 'Trouble in the premier's patch', Sydney Morning Herald, January 14-15, 2006
16. ibid.
17. A. Clennell. 'Labor soft after riots: Debnam', Sydney Morning Herald, 13 January, 2006;
18. Sheehan, op. cit.
19. J. B. Hirst, 'Multiculturalism, with contradiction at its heart, has a great capacity for the absurd', in Carroll (Ed.), op. cit., 1982, p. 193
20. Some Middle Eastern Australians later burnt the Australian flag. N. Wallace, 'I should have thought first: flag burner sentenced to jail', Sydney Morning Herald, 13 January, 2006
21. P. West, 'Sydney's burning' [a reflection on events at Cronulla]; http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3954
22. A. Jakubowicz and J. Browning, 'Respect and Racism in Australia', Discussion Paper No. 2, University of Technology, Sydney, 2004, p.28
23. P. West, 'Sons of the empire: how boys became men in one Australian town', in C. Gittings (Ed.), Imperialism and Gender: Constructions of Masculinity, Dangaroo Press, Yorkshire and New Lambton, 1996, pp. 218-9
24. P. West, Fathers, Sons and Lovers: Men Talk about Their Lives from the 1930s to Today, Finch Publishing, Sydney, 1988