There has been extensive damage caused by rioters who have smashed properties and cars in Maroabra and Brighton le sands where violence erupted in the streets. Policemen have been reported injured and a man has been stabbed in what has been described as a revenge attack by an Asian gang.
To what extent the formation of Lebanese gangs and the scenes of mobocracy there actions have induced relate politically to the Thatcherite policies implemented by the Howard government should be propounded.