The timing is perfect: a book recalling the 2005 Cronulla riots by the key decision-makers at the time, New South Wales Police Minister Carl Scully and Police Commander Assistant Commissioner Mark Goodwin. The Albanese government’s decision to allow potentially pro-Hamas Palestinians to enter Australia has close parallels to the Fraser government’s appalling ‘Lebanese concession’, allowing ‘unskilled, illiterate’ Lebanese Muslims of ‘questionable character’ to seek asylum in Australia.