The 10th anniversary of the Cronulla riots is on December 11th and still to this day I'm often asked why I think the riots occurred. Truth be told, I've often recited the passage below. This was actually the original prelude of the novel, Sons of The Shire, but I cut it. Why? I did so because I felt it took away from the reader discovering their own sense of 'why'. It gave my answer to the question and it did it in the first ten-pages...so why read the rest?   While many of you have read the