Violence in New South Wales

Today's editorial of the Daily Telegraph in Australia refers to acts of violence on Maltese and other innocent people in New South Wales:

The vilification and assault of innocent people on Sunday - some of whom were not even of Middle Eastern background, but with ancestry from countries such as Malta and Bangladesh - has been rightly described as a disgrace. But equally disgraceful was the reciprocal violence of Tuesday, perpetrated by young males from the Middle Eastern community. Carloads of young men, ruthlessly terrorising households and businesses of Cronulla, Maroubra and Brighton-le-Sands, in violent reprisal.

Enough is enough. All of these people must draw back and take stock. Before someone is killed, they need to reach a sober consensus. It's time to allow the imposition of the law, to get behind the police as they move to restore civil order, to demand our law-makers - our State Government - properly focus and act on an issue where leadership has been a scant commodity.