I didn't know about Manly surfers going to Cronulla looking for biff?  You might not know about the insular peninsula ... people over here did not leave the peninsula under any circumstances unless completely necessary!  You had to update your passports before you crossed the Spit Bridge or the Roseville Bridge.  The only way out of the peninsula apart from Mona Vale Road in the north. So I don't know about Manly surfers travelling down to Cronulla although it was always an us and them sort of situation because of the football teams.  Manly won the premiership and defeated Cronulla - they both joined around the same time and there was always that rivalry.  And Cronulla didn't like it one little bit. 

The Bra Boys were never considered to be leaders of the riot!  It was just a typical Bra Boys attitude after seeing what the mussos got up to in Cronulla - don't come to our eastern suburbs beaches to cause trouble because if you do, we will be waiting.  The police warned the Bra Boys off but forgot to warn off the mussos who took up the challenge. 

But the mussos never intended to meet the Bra Boys on their surfing turf.  No, they waited till darkness and the convoy left the south western suburbs unimpeded with all their weapons on board to cause mass destruction to the innocent citizens of Maroubra and other eastern suburbs and their property.  Hundreds of cars were smashed, people were attacked with bats and seriously injured and it all happened when least expected. 

The questions remain ... why did the convoys leave and no one was following to keep an eye on what they were up to?  And the main question ... why did we have such namby pamby laws that prevented the police from searching those vehicles in the first place?  If they had, they could have arrested the mussos for having guns and knives.  And the eastern suburbs would not have been attacked.  That was the real riot! 

And it wasn't a case of the mussos not knowing how to deal with adversaries - it was the mussos who caused all the trouble in the first place.  It was more a case of the surfers and people of the eastern suburbs who didn't know how to deal with the mussos ... or what revenge they were capable of under the cover of darkness.

Sounds like a great time you had growing up in Mt Druitt!  It must have been scary.  My son bought several houses out that way - Blackett, Nth St Marys, Shalvey!  I went over to help clean up the Shalvey house while it was being renovated prior to its being rented out and was shocked about the inmates of that suburb!!  Some were lovely like the guy who lived opposite - he would come over and put the garbage bins out and would keep an eye on the place.  The older lady behind was lovely too. But gee, there were some scary individuals! Like the guy who came over and said he'd take that stove - we'd put it out on the front lawn where I was going to clean it whilst the kitchen was being painted and getting new cupboards.  I said we weren't throwing it out - and he went into a rage and I actually thought he was going to attack me!!!  I said to my son, why did you buy this place??? And he said, get in the car it will only take 5 mins and he drove me to a place called Ropes Crossing - a gated community and he said in 5 to 10 years this will be what Shalvey will be like.  And I was shocked because I said - this is like the Warriewood Valley! - a new housing development which replaced all the market gardens in Warriewood years back. 

Anyway, he didn't stick it out - some of the tenants were a disaster and he sold out. And he had to be careful that no one knew he was a cop otherwise they would have burned the place down. I honestly don't know how anyone can live and survive there. You'd definitely need a gun!!   

So you must have had well developed survival instincts to have come out of that area unscathed!  My granddaughter's maternal grandmother was a teacher at Airds High School. She couldn't cope with teaching in that environment and thought she would have a nervous breakdown so changed to a private school miles away from there.  She lives in a gated community at Glen Alpine.  I don't think I would last more than a month anywhere near any of these places.  Although the two houses he has in North St Marys seem to be okay - apart from one of the tenants suiciding just recently.    

Wow!  You've certainly moved around Jasin.  So why didn't you stay in Leeton?  It seems like you'd found the place you belonged? 

Definitely I agree that the western suburbs and south western suburbs are nothing now like they were up to the 70s and 80s. There are now so many "cultures" that are fighting for dominance.  Mass migration and globalisation has had a disastrous effect on the host nations of the West. 

Ah yeah ... the postcode wars!

But funny you should mention "the Druitt."  My son mentioned this years ago when he was policing in those areas with the TAG. 

He said police in that area always said "that all roads lead to the Druitt!" 

As the crime centre I suppose. 

I hope that's a generalisation, lol. 

Although I will agree that Perth police are corrupt.  Absolutely!