Over the course of Sunday, 11 December 2005, approximately 5,000[1][7][17] people gathered in and around North Cronulla Beach. Early in the morning, people began to gather and impromptu barbecues and "partying"[1] took place. However, at 12:59, a young man of "Middle Eastern appearance"[1] was spotted on the beach and the crowds began "chanting stuff [and] yelling out things"[1] before rushing him.[1][2][17] The man attempted to avoid the crowd by quickly entering "Northies" (a local pub) but the crowd forcibly dragged him out and attacked him.[1] The police, having been in Cronulla since the early morning (including police helicopters and patrol boats), quickly intervened and resolved the situation.[1][7][17] A Cronulla High School teacher later claimed that the crowd had attacked the man after he had shouted "I'm going to blow youse [sic] all up" as he was dragged out.[12]
At 13:45, another two boys (from Bangladesh[1]) were surrounded by the crowd, and had bottles thrown at them,[2] with the crowd repeatedly chanting “**** off Lebs!”,[1] with the boys subsequently being able to escape by car.[1] Chants and slogans such as “**** off Lebs!”,[1] “We grew here, you flew here”,[16] “Aussie Pride”,[16] “**** off wogs!”,[1] were repeated throughout the day by the crowd. The crowd also attacked the police by throwing beer bottles.[1][7] Police vehicles were also swarmed and prevented from entering the area.[7]
Around 14:00 another three males were assaulted on the beach with the crowd throwing sausages and beer bottles at them.[2] At 13:30 two women verbally argued with a small group; the police arrived and both parties left. However, an hour later, they again met and a scuffle ensued.[2]
Rumours had persisted throughout the day that an additional 600 people[1] would arrive by train, mostly from the west of Cronulla, to join the crowds.[1] At approximately 15:00 “two young men of Middle Eastern appearance”[1] arrived at Cronulla train station with the crowd outside chanting “**** off wogs!”.[1] The two men took refuge in the train. However, the crowd entered and began assaulting them; a police officer entered the train and cleared the crowd.[2] At 15:20 two separate assaults took place; one involved a crowd attacking a man of “middle eastern appearance”[2] and throwing beer bottles. In this case an officer intervened and was able to remove the victim as they were both struck by the bottle.[2] A second assault took place outside a Nando's restaurant; 3 men were taken inside the restaurant as refuge and the diners already inside were moved towards the back.[2] The glass doors and windows were broken and those inside were moved outside without incident.[2]
What kind of grubs? Well I'll tell you what kind of grubs this lot were. This lot were Middle Eastern grubs. ”
—Alan Jones, 5 December 2005, on 2GB radio[11]
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"This Sunday every ******* [sic] Aussie in the shire [sic], get down to North Cronulla to help support Leb and wog [sic] bashing day...Bring your mates down and let's show them this is our beach and they're never welcome back"
"Just a reminder that Cronulla's 1st wog [sic] bashing day is still on this Sunday. Chinks bashing day is on the 27th and the Jews are booked for early January"
"Every ******* aussie. [sic] Go to Cronulla Beach Sunday for some Leb and wog [sic] bashing Aussie Pride ok"
"All leb [sic] / wog [sic] brothers. Sunday midday. Must be at North Cronulla Park. These skippy aussies [sic] want war. Bring ur [sic] guns and knives and lets [sic] show them how we do it."
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—Series of widely circulated SMS text messages believed to have instigated the gathering at Cronulla, [1][2][16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Cronulla_riots