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Australia awaits today’s War on Court 21 between Serb Ilia Bozoljac and Croat Marin Cilic. Apparently the tiny venue only allows for 50 or so spectators; three times as many were involved in yesterday’s world-first Grand Slam tennis brawl. Meanwhile, in other local conflict news:
Fifty police supported by a helicopter descended on Cooks Park in Sans Souci at 6.45pm to control 60 young Middle Eastern men who were brawling and throwing rocks after a football hit a child attending a picnic …
Georges River Sailing Club manager Scott Hughes said the incident was not racially based.
“It was just two Lebanese families fighting. I haven’t seen that many police in my life. It was a sight to see and I hope I never see it again.”
UPDATE. The SMH’s report on the same incident (via David M.) displays the art of invisibleness.
Tennis hooliganism? Oh dear, what has the world come to?
Better beef up security for the polo matches…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 15 at 10:06 PM • permalinkI spoke with a taxi driver last year. We talked about rugby league football and it turned out we supported the same team, the Bulldogs. He said his son no longer attended due to the violence. I said I hadn’t really seen any violence and took my young daughter with me and besides his son was Lebanese so there should be no problem.
He replied “my son wears a cross on a chain around his neck”. There are Lebanese and Lebanese.
No arrests, according to reports, but good to see that international law enforcement officers are on the job.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 15 at 10:25 PM • permalinkI had my buck’s party at Georges River Sailing Club twenty years ago. The Dolls Point area was a sleepy little backwater populated by sailors and fisherman in those days. And then Malcolm Fraser’s “Lebanese Experiment” kicked in. From todays’s SMH, Gerald Henderson explains why and how last weekend’s ruckus came about:-
“Muslim Lebanese - and their descendants - who entered Australia under Malcolm Fraser’s “Lebanon concession” policy during that country’s civil war of 1975-76, despite the fact they were not refugees in the official sense of the term.
Two cabinet submissions, released on New Year’s Day with other cabinet records from 1976, show the Fraser government was warned the administration of this policy was a shambles, the policy was “unsatisfactory” and there was a danger “the conflicts, tensions and divisions within Lebanon will be transferred to Australia”. The evidence indicates Fraser rejected this advice at the time”.
I’m thinking Fraser was an even bigger catastrophe than Whitlam.
Rex: Tim’s right - he says “...three times as many were involved (i.e., 150) in yesterday’s ...”
Anyway, whatever the case, they should be dealt with as all hoons should with a short, sharp jail sentence and significant fine.
I saw the family picnic fight news on the SMH site the other day and noted that ethnicity was absent in the report. I was guessing one of two groups…
The question has tobe asked as to how hard was the kid hit with the ball? If it was aimed directly at the kid and booted with all the kickers might then maybe a bit of fisticuffs was warranted. Whats wrong with going over and pciking the kid up and dusting him off and apologising to the parents and the kid and then moving your game somewhere else.
Posted by artful-dodger on 2007 01 15 at 10:28 PM • permalinklooks like castro’s about to kick the bucket (fingers crossed) - rushed into intensive care because of complications after 3 failed operations, according to newsradio.
will be interesting to compare the leftards reactions if he does die (fingers crossed) with their reactions to pinochet’s death
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 15 at 10:33 PM • permalinkIt sounds like the same vermin that used to infest Gunnamutta Park at Cronulla prior to December 2005 have relocated to Dolls Point.My condolences to the residents of that delightful suburb.Even when there were no outbreaks of violence to announce their presence they always left their cultural calling cards.The park was left looking like a landfill depot and any available structures were vandalised.
#7, Fraser was indeed arguably a greater catastrophe than Whitlam, confirmed by Chris Puplick’s pathetic defense of his record.
The dispute is linked to cultural differences between exponents of the single handed and two-fisted backhand. A 1998 ITF brokered cease fire, ended when a resolution on the benefits of a western or continental grip could not be reached.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 15 at 10:47 PM • permalink#11 Eeniemeenie: One of my favorite bloogers, Blue Crab Boulevard, has an appropriately grave and respectful (not!) take on Castro’s condition.
As to the hostilities in Cooks Park, I believe that the Aussie neocons’ attempt to bring democracy to this region has failed, and all troops should be withdrawn. No blood for picnic baskets!
If Castro is about to head off to that great cigar factory in the sky, no prizes for guessing what The Age’s Terry Lane will think.
This (among other reasons why he hates America), from his virulent anti-American spray in last Sunday’s Age:- ”[America]Punishing Cubans for having the temerity to kick out their Mafia landlords…”
Obviously a Castro big wet sloppy kisser. Only evil America could be so wicked as to well, ‘punish
CastroCuba….Start packing your bags Tezza - the funeral early next week….
Castro won’t die. According to the left wing press, Cuba has the world’s best health system.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 15 at 11:25 PM • permalink#23 gopzzak
The Lebanese refugee program of the 1970’s looks like it has a bastard child of the 2000’s - and this is happening during Howard’s watch - we can’t blame Fraser, Whitlam or Keating for this one.Unfortunately, Howard has dropped the ball on immigration and if Rudd promises to tighten things up in this department, he will get in. Guaranteed. Howard is in the process of leaving one helluva legacy!
A free kebab to anyone who can name a benefit of multi-culturalism that doesn’t involve food or sex with foreign chicks.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 15 at 11:53 PM • permalinkI searched all the paper web sites and found nothing on the 700+ Sudanese rioters? What the hell is going on ? I realise the MSM journo’s are left wing propagandists, but this is ridiculous…If a dozen white teenagers brawling at the tennis deserve this amount of attention, then how can the MSM justify not reporting on the Sundanese rioters?
#23 Gozzak
Link? Havent heard anything about this.
Posted by pommygranate on 2007 01 16 at 01:14 AM • permalink#23 - havn’t heard anything about that either. the use of baseball bats doesn’t say much for their level of intergration does it?- i mean surely a cricket bat would be a more fearsome weapon
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 16 at 01:34 AM • permalink#8 & #10 - no matter how many times I read it, an extra “as” appeared in that sentence that quite clearly isn’t there.
I can only plead that I’d just come from leading Terry Lane’s twaddle in the earlier post and my eyes were awash with sight of words being tortured into meanings they were never designed to have.
Apologies Tim.
#26
“A free kebab to anyone who can name a benefit of multi-culturalism that doesn’t involve food or sex with foreign chicks.”
A free kebab.
Sorry. I am just really hungry.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 01 16 at 04:06 AM • permalinkthe tennis brouhaha reminds me of the goodies episode about ballet hooliganism: ‘bol- shoi bol-shoi’
#25- phatty phil seriously argued on LNL once that Australia would be a better place if we’d had some kind of revolution or civil war- what is it with ‘peace loving’ leftards and bloodlust?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 16 at 05:01 AM • permalink#38 This non-reporting is even more concerning considering the thrashing Tamworth council is getting in the MSM. Vanstone is not helping either by wanting DIMA to meet with the Tamwoth council to sort out “the problem”. - For those out of the loop in the US, the Tamworth local government voted to refuse any more Sudanese refugee resettlements based on the violent/destructive behaviour of the current batch.
Hats off to a rural/regional council to stand up and have the balls to tell the bleeding hearts in the city (including those current affairs media Whores harrassing locals) to send their refugee multiculti crap elsewhere. Note that John “I didn’t light the fires” Stanhope offered up the ACT as an alternative resettlement area - Great Idea I hope he parks them in Belconnen, right in DIMA’s backyard so the lefty policy freaks who thought up this crap can put up with them trashing their local coffee shop while out for their mid-morning Latte.Posted by CanberraNeoCon on 2007 01 16 at 05:45 AM • permalinkGozzak, go google Noble Park riot.
It wasn’t the Sudanese, it was the bogans. I know because a few of my neighbours were there and had a right old time.
Word is that they are heading back for another bash this weekend and looking forward to it.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 01 16 at 05:48 AM • permalink#38, there was a similar incident in Newcastle NSW late 2005 involving Sudanese and aborigines at Wickham Park in the inner suburbs. No whites involved, but plenty of baseball bats and lumps of wood, lots of blood and mayhem. Seems the brothers of no appearance don’t like one another much. This event occurred despite a concerted effort by local welfare groups to smooth the refugee settlement process.
I notice on tonight’s ABC news Tamworth has been forced to back down and toe the PC line by accepting previously rejected African settlers on a 12-month trial even though the town has serious concerns about its ability to provide the necessary support services to assist these families in resettlement.
Thinking good thoughts doesn’t always make good things happen.
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#44 I’ve seen some of the Tamworth bashing on the 7.30 report, and those council officers interviewed said that they had sent out a survey, and of the 500 people who responded, the majority were concerned with refugees settling in the area.
Some of the concerns were about practical things like healthcare, support and infrastructure to deal with those from an alien culture. All valid considerations if you ask me, but too radical for aunty, I guess.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 01 16 at 05:56 AM • permalinki caught the last couple minutes of tonight’s 7:30 report about Sudanese in some country town, and it seemed to be about how the locals were enjoying the new foodie experience and how police needed sensitivity training because of their silly western assumption that women are equal
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 16 at 07:52 AM • permalink#46, 47
Tamworth/New England ABC Local Radio obviously weren’t impressed with the local rednecks’ objections (at a Town Hall meeting of c. 500) when interviewed on ABC Radio National about it (Tara Grimshaw, former ABC TV producer: can’t find transcript): bet some behind-the-scenes politicking went on to pull some strings ...You can take the peasants out of the Balkans but…
Posted by Hump B Bare on 2007 01 17 at 03:40 AM • permalink
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