Cronulla riots Archive

It’s 2005, and some of Sydney’s most violent riots are about to take place in Cronulla. The Capulets and Montagues are at each other’s throats again, this time in the guise of the Skips vs the Lebs. The floorboards are creaking and …

One family is a well-to-do southern suburbs family, the other an immigrant family from Sydney’s west. Older, cooler heads – and police commissioner Prince – try vainly to turn back the tide of hatred, passion and bloodshed.  A beach party crashed, insults …