Tuesday, December 13, 2005

[Australia] Suburban gangs come out to fight / New Zealand Herald, 13 Dec 2005

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10359677
Greg Ansley
"The violence that erupted at Sydney beaches was the bomb at the end of a long, slow-burning social fuse. The entrenched tribalism of the city's coastal suburbs, the trigger for similar brawls between surfies and rockers in the 1960s, and regular confrontations between locals and 'westies' from Sydney's inland fringes, was overlaid by the inevitable pressures of a new, diverse, Australia. "