Cronulla was a battle for territory, and the locals won

Cronulla, 2006 Census:

Population: 16,754

Country of birth, Australia: 72.8%

Language used at home, top responses other than English: Greek 0.8%, Italian 0.7%

English only used at home: 83.1%

Cronulla, 2021 Census:

Population: 17,899

Country of birth, Australia: 78.6%

Language used at home, top responses other than English: Spanish 1%, Greek 0.9%

English only used at home: 85.9%

It’s been more than four years since the last Census, during which time Australia has taken in record numbers of immigrants, but the results for Cronulla will be much the same, as anyone who’s been there recently can see it’s one of the few parts of Sydney that hasn’t been totally transformed by mass migration, and one of the only places that has actually become more Australian.

The Northern Beaches is another Anglo-Celtic holdout, along with patches of the Eastern Suburbs, and pockets of the North Shore, while pretty much everywhere else has been swamped by Asians, Indian subcontinentals, Muslims, and other random non-European ethnic groups.

Having no train line along with increasingly high prices has saved the Northern Beaches, while price has also preserved the East, and parts of the North Shore, while distance has spared other suburbs.

But Cronulla and most of the Sutherland Shire (referred to as the The Shire by the rest of Sydney and God’s Country by locals) has remained vast majority White Australian, despite the train pipeline and relatively affordable prices compared to other beachside areas.

The reason why Cronulla still feels like Australia, why it’s clean, and leafy, and safe, and quiet, while still being down to earth and mainly middle and working class, is obvious – it’s because of the events of December 11, 2005, and the fallout from them.

Then-police commander Mark Goodwin, who wrote a book on the so-called riots (the real riots were the revenge attacks) along with then-Police Minister Carl Scully, has repeatedly stated that the root cause was competition for space.

The Anglo locals owned the suburb, and Lebanese Muslims were trying to muscle in.

Goodwin addressed this after a speech to The Sydney Institute last year, in response to a question about invaders urinating on picnic baskets in a local park in the lead up to the conflict in an attempt to drive out locals and take it for themselves.

“I can assure you, and I know from the Cronulla locals, I’ve spoken to hundreds of them, that this sort of thing that you’re describing was very, very out of control down there, there was a very, very big push by some very unsavoury people to dominate that spatial domain,” he responded.

“And I think I’ve mentioned the behaviour, and this is why we say that I don’t believe that it was a full-on racist event, I think you need to peel back the onion layers and look at the real causal factors which was about the behaviours that you’re describing.”

This is the crux of the issue that we all now face – we are in a battle for owned space.

Who owns your street, who owns your neighbourhood, who owns your suburb, who owns your city, who owns your country?

For many of us, we already live in streets, neighbourhoods and suburbs that are dominated and effectively owned by hostile foreign tribes.

We are outnumbered, outvoted, and out-organised by people who don’t share our blood or our culture, and who put themselves and their group interests first.

Our capital cities are next, and then our whole country.

As the Census results show, the residents of Cronulla still own their suburb, because they fought back.

And whether Goodwin is right or not about the the riots not being a “full-on racist event” – the revenge attacks certainly were – the media portrayal of Cronulla as being synonymous with “racist White bogans” has, ironically, done the suburb a favour and kept non-White immigrants from moving in.

But it’s not over.

If Cronulla is not careful, it too will be taken over like the vast swathes of southern and western Sydney that just a few decades ago were demographically identical to it, and unless we all (peacefully and non-violently, of course, without rioting) resist our demographic replacement, our entire country will go the same way.

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