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i school in the seventy's and eighty's were totally different from what school are these days. there was no other choice for them. there were i my a lot of t within the system. they shall be in the victim, eyes marginalized, picked on. and unfortunately, that mentality that existed at the school develop some sense of non belonging and so many, it's trailing lebanese families. the battles in the school yard turn into bachelor at home. the parents speak little english, and many a strain born children speak no arabic. they can't communicate with their parents anymore because their parents are still living. so back in a 970 is in the middle east and the kid is living in the 1980s early nineties in

australia. and it's very different. and that communication between the families got lost. you're getting called, wog, and hope can were wide and all sorts stuff at school. and then you, you come home, you parents, it was bringing to arabic all the time. and you think maybe these guys, right? maybe i am logs, maybe. so you fighting my liberties? one strategy. what am i on? i know and for parents struggling with english, the education of their children becomes of the via test niandra bashes 7 children are expected to do well at school. and she never has an education one day, very smart mother was the mother that he, if he ever came 2nd in the class, it's in his room and quite a civilian i student. now, my mother on the other hand, never went to school. she does matter with roy arabic or even english metal. she's

never ever experienced being in the classroom and be told by a job which was fun, phenomenal because of others. a very, very strong lady and very, very smiling. become any time dickie. she had him way. she came to me mom, what states which i didn't tell them i carried the right. i didn't have to be smart, you have to read it. you have to do deep have to do that inside my heart from like my wife and took him out. that's what he told me. i told him, i want to be dr. low to to be say, listen, i want to be computer man. i want to do something quickly. futures, me style l care and the younger brother sam, both go to punch ball boys. hi. there was probably about 70 people out of my year

that actually got into a university of some sort. were still young back then, but you could choose which party really wanted to take but at school, they are already on different time. val, heading towards the university degree with san looking forward to the lessons of the straight the same complain or will? melinda? everyone does yolanda live in front of her school and took that off to you guys. principals, young. yes, i'm going to spend the for so and so, and i'm translating today i'm doing well at school and principal just wanted to compliment me and compliment you on raising me why you have and as we walk and

walking out of the office, all sorts of good over here, the, the arbiter joe walked into the office and he was in my dad from the, from my dads days at the shop. and he said already, now your son got suspended for 1234 and dentist under. i looked at me like what you're good shit and i am getting a job. that was another story that got another building over that one. robert, not regarding the issue with dr. baylock fully survey after that, give debbie belligerence. kevin holly was dealing with the rogers mom. i'll really station that a go dollars. lation. mr. committee and after school on the street southwest evening, many a strange liberties, teenagers drift away from the parents. dreams of

a university education and drift towards the excitement of easy money from petty crime was to break into places for the sake of bloody getting shirts and drinks and lilies and stuff like that ought to get a $100.00. you know, just it wasn't soundless to still stop bills and gentlemen, for us. i was hanging out a couple blocks that i shouldn't be hanging. now we will get into fortunately of the day when you don't have many prospects with your education. we have many prospects with your work whenever any prospects for the future, we have any prospects in the community that you live in. it's really appealing to did the wrong thing, get quick money. it's really appealing because to that one moment you could be a little bit of a super stuck. if you feel you belong to someone or something, you know a bill to get

a review and going to find someone that feels the same. i like you and be going to be your friends. to talk about a minority of those kids who felt trapped in the ganglion mentality, rebuild against teachers against principal rebuild against police. they looked at criminal activities as a way out of poverty rather than education. crime is often the 1st thing to flourish and does so because it validates people's identity. it gives them power in a wound in which they are otherwise. palace. it's very attractive for a lot of people to go that way. the me almost a decade after the exit is from lebanon begins, then you live in a trailer and a building, a cohesive community. in south with complex

political conflict involving christian and islamic militias is left behind. 11 instead. southwick sydney reflects a different reality in live and on i was raised in a very respectful community. i remember them a slim families would go to the christian neighbors to celebrate christmas, and then the christian would come to visit muslim neighbors to celebrates ramadan we upon life exchanged ways. we supported each other. we've always been open. respect deliveries are. trailing community is a mix of christians and muslims. but here in la camber parts of the old european immigrant and anglo community,

still struggle with the unfamiliar faith of islam. ah, bill again the most opened in the late seventy's and the critics of multiculturalism. it is a symbol of a dangerous cultural divide. the building of the mosque creates a lot of local intention and hostility. this opposition from long was limbs to its presence. in fact, it's one of the 1st of the many mosques that are challenged by local communities all over sydney in the long time that really changes partly because people who don't like it, move out. and people who do like it move in. and so the, the neighborhood becomes increasingly islamic, there are pre holes book shops, how long butcher ease,

very good liberties take was restaurants. it looks a bit like a small town in living on some years. ah, but just the lebanese is trading community embrace, peaceful coexistence in south west sydney. they find themselves under attack on a national scale. influential forces question if a stranger can cope with immigrants and their foreign ways. multiculturalism is now issued by the federal government invites national disunity. jeffrey blaney and norman historian makes a major speech and writes book condemning what he sees as the emerging tribalism in australia caused by the arrival of all these new immigrants. the views of the 3 bodies in camera. very different to the views of those people who live amongst the new and, and have to work with them on my one mine with

races. tensions writhing the liberal opposition later. john howard, fin the stark message to the supporters of a multicultural astray lawyer. the only thing that can unite this country and keep this country united by sea cor australian values to which all of us can subscribe. and that is his vision of what makes a stranger, unique and strong. and anyone who deviates from that is seen to be honest writing and in some are you, are you my room? and i mean, you might do that. the operation desert storm is right on schedule. for the course, so i live that the world understand big countries cannot invite small neighbors and

get away with the 1st gulf war. she's the media focus to arab australians, the simmering suspicions of old anglo astray lawyer again to boil the backlash from the called ford. we have not being ready for something like that, especially as the female side of our community who actually bones in front of the 1st wave against everyone. that is islam make everyone that is arabic and every one that was a hit job or had a funny sound ignite, just show the ugly face of racism and such a way that we could not cope was at that time in me was in the 12 at the time of the golf all and, and it,

and it did have an impact. and i'll never forget mom who is he's having her job is sort of is somewhat tempted to take that his job off. so i could never understand why. and then there was another time when somebody sped at her and i thought, what a low act she's got, nothing to do. what's going on. we're actually proud of striving for a generation lebanese is trailyn, has been struggling to find a place in a so called multicultural country. now for the 1st time in our post war history, refugees are being asked to declare their religions, arab australian who saw you on the 1st struggle. i already answered this question or when i started the citizen my lot, these dos trailer and i shouldn't be asked about this. this is the 1st time they are straining identity has ever been challenged in this sort of way. it's the 1st

time they are being confronted with a choice between being on our strike because up to now the multi cultural story is your both and now suddenly they may not um, vehicle for this type of 20 piece of pressure on this community. we have lived in an atmosphere like we have been in a picture. they are a big carnival at golf woodland park, proceeded peacefully until like this afternoon, the shadow of the gulf war and a perceived divide between anglo and arab australia loomed over. an arab was trailing and family festival in a fight between 2 young women escalate and the conflict intensified further. as more police respond, it just highlighted how distant the community was from the new house was police and

how ignored it. police officers at that time where they could have diffuse a situation very easily, but their way of having this attitude in your face and things escalated. local doctor jamal, re fi, is that the festival with his family? i believe it would be a different story. none of the food stamps were used to move the mom, the many in the arab community believe divine and ignite because the police have no respect for them.

i mean, his occasions way for people would be sitting in a car and for no apparent reason, other than lebanese or middle eastern that pulled over and stretched out of the full ca, searched month along the road. and it happened quite a quite a bit. after leaving punchbowl boys high fell l. okay, is it university on the threshold of a management career? but he still believes he's a belief target i distinctly remember ones who are on the north shore, driving around at night. there was a die off, you know, something we got pulled out by some police and essentially got to make the lie on the ground. and the worst of the effect of this is not your area. we don't want your client, these don't come back. but the reality is that the police a facing a crime wave that thing golfing south with sydney and it's young,

lebanese australians who are often to blame. i'm not saying it was a model model citizen did straight to the disappointment of his parents. fan, our care is not interested in the family, fruit and vegetable business. for sam and his friend berra easier, far more lucrative ways to make money. ah, a lot of young men that were gonna be doing something illegal. and the police just had no way of combat. ah, the most profitable illegal activity of all, if the racket known as car rebirthing a stolen vehicle is fitted with the serial numbers from erect car. to give it a new identity. i would steal you very high profile, very expensive. my vehicle get a rig and re booth within days and what would pop out was

a car that she could hardly tell almost couldn't tell was right. if i got a team together, i could rebirth a car within a day, there was big money in all my my son is driving around the flesh cars and making the money. so it was just sort of say someone else so much money to do and started doing the same thing and was just crazy money didn't have to work you up when you want audio, not in just one year between 9 195996 more than 47000 cars the stolen in new south wales. as the racket peaks, the police hit back. the car wreck, it is the biggest so far uncovered in australia and has taken 2 years of police investigations to unravel. police have recovered $120.00, stolen cars with a value of 2 and

a half $1000000.00. we will be doing right back out of houses and had 3 and 4 car shields. they were obviously cow rebirth, and they been taking place. it was a hydra never the enemy because to stop you from making your easy money. mm hm. okay. and is convicted of a number of offences that escapes a jail sentence. kyra industries that it often border time use of the media increasingly demonizes south sydney as a hot bed of crime. john howard suite de power after 13 years in opposition and one nations pauline hanson is elected in queensland. ah, get rid of this multi culturalism, because that is wanting to bother us also as

a nation, we are multi racial. we are strong and, and be proud of it. with the return of john howard's as prime minister, multiculturalism has been abandoned as a national audiology. and so people are feeling much more comfortable in the period of pulling hanson about talking about race or anything racist remarks, calling people racist names and delivering these kids in places like punch bowl getting caught up in the matter. go off. as hostility increases, the police focus on a new source of conflict. lebanese australian gangsters are ramping up the drug records. there was a lot of illegal activities taken place from members of our community and was no shame whatsoever. a lot of drug

smuggling, cocaine and when and people who were at that time dealing and distributing it was a sense of pride because it was a way for them to make week money. these are small and numbers, but they would existing they did happen to lo be a straight punch bowl goes from decent. laura biding suburban, straight to a drug drive through supplying much of staff with what young people with drug users, the way a drug addicts and their family would not do anything about it because it was, it's under the carpet because i don't want anyone else to know that their son or daughter is a drug addict. a community isn't denial. as drugs in cash create

a powerful criminal underworld, it was a new phenomena. this was the development of the lebanese organized crime. model of crime was violence, it was voluntary, was predicated on volumes and fee. if people went to the police station to give them any kind of information, there was criminal element would know about it and they'll come to retaliate. we could not trust the police at that time. we wanted to, but there was that sense of fear. things are fe. the pitch people are short, fuse drugs everywhere. there are guns everywhere. it's the wall waste. next time on, once upon a time in punch bowl, ah, a lot of the lebanese young gangsters thought that they were unbreakable, and untouchable, and the phone. but one of the, my son this race riot in his,

in history to the training and only the needs a told to go back to where they came from. the alarm. and the thing is the struggle flag being carried away, which i think the inflection ever be carried. yeah. no idea why. and you know you got my culture and you have that much of what we've done to use me besieged by violent crime and drugs. confronted by racism and integration, 0 traces the history of 1st generation lebanese australians. exploring the conflicts and the struggle for except once upon

a time in punch bowls on our 0, i was whose the, whose hello welcome to look at the international forecast for st invited storms and moving across central parts of canada. recross the u. s. prairies. its area of a i pressure his thoughts to several things down, but the weather system just to the south of that will continue to drift that heavy rain across the upper midwest over towards the appalachians. big down, pause therein to well, upstate new york up towards new england as we go on through saturday. that cloud of

rain running all the way down into the deep south is seen some flooding to just around the arizona passes. doesn't southwest thing, some live a storm still very warm. hot in phoenix, 40 degrees celsius on saturday afternoon and going on into sunday as well. central out of the us thing, some showers longest, both afraid whether that's just around the mid atlantic states. no saw of any wet weather where we could really do with just a long met at west coast of the us that noticed you could capture a shower to them towards nevada. possibly you'll chat to southern parts of california north of the border. welcome showers. a little cooler than of late there into that western side of canada. western parts of mexico seeing some rather wet weather. at present we got an area or a cloud hess, typical system just off shore, some heavy showers coming in across a good part of central america sunshine. his shower was there for the caribbean. the

the the remaining gym i was born in the family of never left under will do, i mean in my mind of everybody else to go and tell him i, i knew i had to go bust cities and at least to get the head begging for food and just working and lived in a to me to that the place. oh, do i go to

a did, did that to me just sometimes exceed and my friend is not adding something. so what we've been in the i go to go poor people between the region, the for the very big got changed i when freedom of the press is under threat. you know, you just cause thought genuinely about your thought toward the making government

step outside the mainstream. the has been a all is implement here, system of access points, shift the focus, the panoramic that's turned out to be a handy little prefect. the prime minister clamped down on the press covering the waves. the news is covered, the listening post on the more than a 1000 people missing in at least $126.00. that is catastrophic strike germany and neighboring countries. ah, hello, this is al jazeera life from fully bad people. also coming up, i've gotten forces, tried to retake a key border crossing with pakistan from the taliban, while international peace efforts intensified.