Side by side ... Mecca Laalaa and Kim Short walk along Cronulla beach. They became friends while walking the Kokoda Track last year, an initiative organised in the wake of the Cronulla riots. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Race relations are again under scrutiny, and the question remains: what must be done to heal the wounds left by so many ugly acts. Rick Feneley reports.

Faces of fury ... clockwise from far left: broadcaster Alan Jones; scenes from the Cronulla riots; Lebanese identity Keysar Trad; Justice Peter McClellan. Photo: Helen Nezdropa; Andrew Meares; Robert Pearce; Edwina Pickles

 

Alan Jones's legal case over anti-Lebanese comments has been lost, but inflammatory jocks might not change their tune, writes David Marr.