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Image: Cronulla Riots Fairfax Media/Andrew Meares By Johnny Lieu 2015-12-07 06:08:24 UTC. Jones rapped for pre-riot 'scum ... and its prominent breakfast presenter Alan Jones breached the radio code of practice during broadcasts just before the infamous 2005 Cronulla riots. The Cronulla riots in December 2005 marked one of the most significant race riots in Australian history. ", When John called on Tuesday to bluntly recommend vigilante action — "If the police can't do the job, the next tier is us" — Jones did not dissent. Good on you, John." Wyatt says if it wasn’t for the Cronulla Riots, then his local MP could have ended up being a Lebo. “By Thursday last week Alan Jones was screaming like a race caller whose horse was coming home. SHOCKJOCK Alan Jones has been unsuccessful in his latest attempt to have a lawsuit claiming he racially vilified Sydney's Muslims three days before the Cronulla riots in 2005, dismissed. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. Jones's apology comes two months after he lost a lengthy legal bid to overturn the 2009 decision. Cronulla is a very long beach and it's been taken over by this scum. Jones claimed the broadcast wrongly suggested that he "sought to incite racial violence" in the week leading up to the Cronulla riots, "was a racist" … I'm a Cronulla girl, and I reverted to Islam four years ago, and I get so upset to hear people talking about these thugs, these Lebanese thugs, in terms of Islam. Jones happily hopped on the band wagon — and in 2007 the ACMA found he helped incite the Cronulla race riots by broadcasting material “that was likely to encourage violence or brutality and to vilify people of Lebanese and Middle-Eastern backgrounds on the basis of ethnicity”. RADIO broadcaster Alan Jones broadcast material likely to encourage violence and vilify people of Middle Eastern descent in the lead-up to a Sydney race riot, the broadcasting regulator has found. Jones lost his appeal against a 2009 Administrative Decisions Tribunal ruling that a broadcast on his radio show on April 28, 2005, "incited hatred, serious contempt and severe ridicule of Lebanese Muslims". Are you suggesting that the Cronulla Riots had not impact on anybody other than his listeners? Mr Trad hoped the tribunal would rule that 2GB pay his legal costs, which he said were six figures. Both the Telegraph and Jones’s employer 2GB will continue to shape their product according to their audiences. news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site. "Yeh. Part 2 was published on December 1 and part 3 will be published on December 2. "This apology has made a lot of people feel that we as a community have reclaimed some of the respect that we deserve.". Alan Jones: I'm the person that's led this charge. An in-depth analysis of the Cronulla race riots would be presented to understand the factors influencing the riot and its effects on the community and economy as a whole. Cronulla is a very long beach and it's been taken over by this scum. ALAN Jones' ongoing racial vilification of Lebanese Muslims culminated in the Cronulla riots, which could have been avoided if he had apologised eight … We don't have Anglo-Saxon kids out there raping women in western Sydney.". And they say, 'Uh huh, uh huh. He quotes Jones as saying: “I’m the person that’s led this charge here.Nobody wanted to know about North Cronulla. The station has been ordered to pay $10,000 in damages by the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal and to issue an apology. "I tell you who we want to encourage, Charlie, all the Pacific Island people because, you want to know something, they don't take any nonsense. He has also been accused for inciting hatred on his radio show in the lead up to the Cronulla riots in 2005. The Administrative Decisions Tribunal (ADT) had ordered Jones to apologise on his 2GB radio show any day this week. Nobody wanted to know about North Cronulla; now it’s gathered to this.” Jones said his comments breached the Anti-Discrimination Act and the tribunal had found they "incited serious contempt of Lebanese males including Lebanese Muslims". It's not a few causing trouble, it's all of them'' - Sydney radio 2GB ‘‘shock jock'' Alan Jones reading out an email on air three days before the Cronulla race riots. "I apologise for making those comments and I recognise they were unlawful and I also apologise on behalf of Radio 2GB," he said. 2GB's Alan Jones has been found guilty of vilifying Lebanese Muslims in his 'Cronulla Riot' broadcasts of April 2005. Thanks Alan for providing some very worthwhile context to this. As Fairfax journalist David Marr wrote on December 13, 2005, Jones was boasting about his role. ", It was horrible stuff, larded with self-congratulation. The tribunal found that complaints of racial vilification against two respondents were substantiated, but the balance of the complaint was dismissed. This Sunday every Aussie in the Shire get down to North Cronulla to support the Leb and wog bashing day …". And when he then offered a maxim his father had picked up during the war — "Shoot one, the rest will run" — the broadcaster roared with laughter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Jones_(radio_broadcaster) Alan Jones's legal case over ... the talkback king or his station for attacks on Lebanese Muslims that reached their depths in the days before the Cronulla riots in the summer of 2005. ", The riot was still three days away and Sydney's highest-rating breakfast radio host had a heap of anonymous emails to whip his 2GB listeners along. The controversial broadcaster on Wednesday apologised on air for saying in April 2005 Lebanese men were "vermin" and "mongrels" who "simply rape, pillage and plunder a nation that's taken them in". “Sunday's trouble did not come out of the blue. "These attacks made listeners feel that Lebanese Muslims were some sort of a different species, like an alien race - a group they can refer to as 'the other' rather than being part and parcel of Australian society.". Good on you, John. When she reported hearing "really derogatory remarks" aimed at Middle Eastern people on Cronulla beach, Jones cut her off: "Let's not get too carried away, Berta. McIver’s Ladies Baths: Sydney pool cops heat for transgender... Berkshire Park: Driver killed in head-on crash with truck, Sydney: Selim Sensoy faces court over alleged prison break. “Radio doesn't get much grimmer than Alan Jones' efforts in the days before the Cronulla riot. He said the radio attacks had desensitised listeners to vilification. By Thursday Alan Jones was screaming like a race caller whose horse was coming home, observes David Marr in today’s Sydney Morning Herald.. What we've got here now is totally away from where we want to be. And pity poor Berta — "not of a Middle Eastern family" — who tried to argue there were two sides to this story. He was dead keen for a demo at the beach — "a rally, a street march, call it what you will. Date: 11 – 12 December 2005: It was brewing all week on talkback radio — particularly on 2GB. But Alan Jones is not around to deal with the aftermath. "No, you don't play Queensberry's rules. These are the untold stories of the Cronulla riots. You step out of line, look out.' LEADING Sydney radio station 2GB and its star announcer, Alan Jones, breached the industrys code of practice by inciting violence during the Cronulla riots. Yesterday, 2GB broadcasters claimed two-thirds of calls coming into the station supported "what happened" at Cronulla on Sunday. Cronulla Race Riots On 4th December 2005, an argument occurred between volunteer lifesavers and four guys of Middle East descendant at North Cronulla, after which the Cronulla race riots broke out. In December 2005 about 5000 people were involved in a drunken riot at Cronulla beach, during which people of Middle Eastern appearance were chased and bashed. A community show of force. He has also been accused for inciting hatred on his radio show in the lead up to the Cronulla riots in 2005. Read More: Alan Jones’ solution for women he disagrees with: Shut them up by any means necessary. Below we are publishing part one of a three-part series on the December 2005 race riots at Sydney’s Cronulla beach. 'I'm the person that's led this charge here. Excerpts from Jones’ original 2005 audio and its analysis forms part of more than 200 pieces of multimedia content that I produced for the SBS Interactive documentary, Cronulla Riots… 2005 Cronulla riots; Police observing crowds prior to confrontations. He was dead keen for a demo at the beach — "a rally, a street march, call it what you will. “I contacted certain MPs, yes.” Alan Jones’ controversial role in the leadership spill. Conservative Australian broadcaster Alan Jones was found to have incited hatred for describing Lebanese Muslims as ''vermin'' and ''mongrels'' in the lead-up to the riots. It's all of them.". The tribunal found that complaints of racial vilification against two respondents were substantiated, but the balance of the complaint was dismissed. Look, you know, I feel like everybody else. 2GB's Alan Jones has been found guilty of vilifying Lebanese Muslims in his 'Cronulla Riot' broadcasts of April 2005. In April 2005, conservative broadcaster Alan Jones made on-air comments describing Lebanese Muslims as “vermin” and “mongrels.” In 2009 a court found that Alan Jones … Alan Jones has lost his bid to overturn a tribunal decision which found he incited hatred of Lebanese Muslims in the lead-up to the Cronulla riots. Nobody wanted to know about North Cronulla, now it's gathered to this. But after the apology was aired, Mr Trad, who took the case against Jones and 2GB, told AAP "no 40-second segment can balance years of criticism of the Muslim community". And, of course, cowards always run, don't they? RADIO broadcaster Alan Jones broadcast material likely to encourage violence and vilify people of Middle Eastern descent in the lead-up to a Sydney race riot, … The station has been ordered to pay $10,000 in damages by the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal and to issue an apology. It's all of them.' By Thursday Alan Jones was screaming like a race caller whose horse was coming home, observes David Marr in today’s Sydney Morning Herald.. ALAN Jones' ongoing racial vilification of Lebanese Muslims culminated in the Cronulla riots, which could have been avoided if he had apologised eight … Both shaped the outcome of the Cronulla riots with their practices and neither are signatories of the MEAA code of ethics. It's not a few causing trouble. Alan Jones's legal case over ... the talkback king or his station for attacks on Lebanese Muslims that reached their depths in the days before the Cronulla riots in the summer of 2005. I'd just like to stress the point that it is naive to think that that none of us are influenced by Alan Jones' platform if we do not listen to him. "Alan, it's not just a few Middle Eastern bastards at the weekend, it's thousands. I'm really upset about this whole thing. Alan Jones settles defamation lawsuit with SBS smh.com.au - Angus Thompson, Georgina Mitchell. As Alan Jones himself exclaimed on radio 2GB on December 8, 2005: “I’m the person that’s led this charge here. "I'm the person that's led this charge here. Cronulla is a very long beach and it's been taken over by this scum. "Come to Cronulla this weekend to take revenge. ALAN Jones' ongoing racial vilification of Lebanese Muslims culminated in the Cronulla riots, which could have been avoided if he had apologised eight years ago, community leader Keysar Trad says. It was brewing all week on talkback radio — particularly on 2GB. "It should not be the job of a private citizen to try to protect the law of the land at his own expense, and that's what I was asked to do," he said. It's not a few causing trouble. Go beyond the media headlines with SBS's interactive experience: watch the documentary, explore the themes and delve deeper into the riots. Radio doesn't get much grimmer than Alan Jones' efforts in the days before the Cronulla riot. Read More: Alan Jones’ solution for women he disagrees with: Shut them up by any means necessary. Last Thursday Charlie rang to suggest all junior footballers in the Shire gather on the beach to support the lifesavers. Nor were the ACMA or Press Council effective in … He's having a well-earned holiday. He quotes Jones as saying: “I’m the person that’s led this charge here.Nobody wanted to know about North Cronulla. One of the chief inciters of the Cronulla race riot was Radio 2GB shock jock Alan Jones. Originally published asJones comments incited riots: Trad. CALLER TO 2GB, SYDNEY MARK: It's not about keeping Australia white, it's about keeping Australia right — having the right people, the right culture and the right feeling. The 2005 Cronulla riots was a civil conflict in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.It began in the beachside suburb of Cronulla on 11 December and spread over the next few nights to additional suburbs.. ", He assured his huge audience he "understood" why that famous text message went out and he read it right through again on air. “I contacted certain MPs, yes.” Alan Jones’ controversial role in the leadership spill. A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. Sunday's trouble did not come out of the blue. The Sydney-based Lebanese-born Muslim leader said he knew of no other ethnic group that had received such sustained vilification as the Muslim Lebanese community. Radio doesn't get much grimmer than Alan Jones' efforts in the days before the Cronulla riot. "Good stuff, good stuff," said Jones. Marce Cameron, Sydney ‘‘Alan, it's not just a few Middle Eastern bastards at the weekend, it's thousands. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. I grew up in Cronulla. The Cronulla riots were sparked, in part, by a clash on 4 December 2005, when a group of off-duty volunteer surf lifesavers were involved in a dispute … The Cronulla riots in December 2005 marked one of the most significant race riots in Australian history. BY THURSDAY last week Alan Jones was screaming like a race caller whose horse was coming home. CALLER TO 3AW DOROTHY: I'd class those ones who took part in that yesterday, they're not fit to be called Aussies — dirty, filthy, drunken little scumbags. Nationwide News Pty Limited Copyright © 2021. LEADING Sydney radio station 2GB and its star announcer, Alan Jones, breached the industrys code of practice by inciting violence during the Cronulla riots. "We saw the ugly culmination of these comments in the riots of December 2005, and if my complaint had been dealt with promptly, Australia may have well been saved from the Cronulla riots, because this was eight months before and if (2GB) had been brought to account they would have been on notice and more careful about what they said.". Daily he cautioned his listeners not to take the law into their own hands, but he warmed to listeners who had exactly that on their minds. They love being here. Jones rapped for pre-riot 'scum' remarks ... and its prominent breakfast presenter Alan Jones breached the radio code of practice during broadcasts just before the infamous 2005 Cronulla riots. The 2005 Cronulla riots was a civil conflict starting in the beachside suburb of Cronulla in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, which spread over the next few nights to additional suburbs. LEBANESE community leader Keysar Trad is relieved to receive Alan Jones' apology but says it does not make up for years of racial vilification. HE'S tough, testy and rarely apologetic, but broadcaster Alan Jones has reached 25 years on air with one big regret: the day he made a senior female bureaucrat cry. All times AEDT (GMT +11). 'Trauma' for Cronulla The people Alan is talking about were responsible for the assault of two lifeguards at Cronulla beach on December 4th last year. Australia’s top-rating radio host Alan Jones has been forced to make his second apology in a week, this time for comments made days before the 2005 Cronulla riots in Sydney. They are proud to be here — all those Samoans and Fijians. Dead keen for a demo at the weekend, it was horrible stuff ''... The leadership spill More about our policy and your choices, including how to alan jones cronulla riots '' at Cronulla on.! 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