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school in the seventy's and eighty's were totally different from what this school are these days. there was no other choice for them. there were i my in laws, 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 is dradian born children speak no arabic. they can't communicate with their parents anymore because the parents are still living side back in 19 seventies 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 of a school. and then you come home. you parents were speaking to an arabic all the time and you think maybe these guys, right. maybe i am a walk 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 at the v. a test. niandra bashes 7 children are expected to do well at school. and she never has an education. ah, one day very smart mother did that. he, if he ever came 2nd in the class, you'll soon as human quite a civilian student. yeah, my mother on the other hand, never went to school. she does matter with roy arabic or even english. metal is

never ever experienced, being in the classroom and be told by play jump. which was fun, phenomenal because my mother is a very, very strong lady and very, very smiling. become any time dickie. she had him way. and she came to me mom. what states which i didn't tell them i carried the right. i tell them have to be smart. you have to read it, have to do deep. have to do that inside my heart. some like my life and the amount that's all the time i told them. i want to be doctor, i want to be say let's i want to be computed man, i want to do something quickly. futures me. so l care and the younger brother sam, both go to punch ball boys. hi. there was probably about 70 people out of my heath

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 types. sal heading to the university degree. we've san looking forward to the lessons of the street. oh, dear complain my name is yolanda holloway who lives in front of the school and took that off to you guys. principal john. 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 complain 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 and looked at me like what you're shipping. i am getting a job. that was another story that got another building over that one robert negative peers with dr. bill actually something that you would be belligerent. kevin holly was really do deal with the rock as well. i'll really station that ago. dollars. i should michelin and after school on the streets of south with sydney, many astray and 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 old. to get $100.00. you know, it was just, it wasn't so much to steal stuff. it was in jail and for us i was hanging out a couple blocks that i shouldn't be hanging. we always will get into. fortunately, every day when you don't have many prospects with your education, we have many prospects, but you work whenever any prospects for the future. we have any prospects in the community that you live in. it's really appealing to do the wrong thing, get quick money. it's really appealing because to that one moment you could be a little bit of a super stuff. if you feel you belong to someone or something, you know, or a bill, you get

a review and going to find someone that food is time. i like you. and it's going to be your friends to the door when about a minority of those kids who felt trapped in the ganglion mentality, the rebuild against their 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 as 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 is landing militias is left behind in live. and instead, southwick sydney reflects a different reality ah, 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 celebrate ramadan, we only exchanged ways, we supported each other. we've always been open, respect, delivered, either trailing community is a mix of christians and muslims. i said, but here in like amber parts of the old european immigrant and anglo community

still struggle with the unfamiliar faith of islam. ah, bill again, the mosque opened in the late seventies 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 once to its presence. in fact, it's one of the 1st of the many mollusks 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 butchery is very good. liberties take was restaurants. it

looks a bit like a small town in living on some years, ah, adjusted 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 as now issued by the federal government, invites national disunity. jeffrey blaney and norman historian makes a major speech and then writes book condemning what he sees as the emerging tribalism in australia caused by the arrival of all these new immigrants. the, the views of the 3 bodies in camera. very different to the views of those people who live amongst the new modem and have to work with them on my

19, we raise the 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 straight, unique and strong. and anyone who deviates from that is seen to be honest writing and in my room. and i mean, you might do that. the operation desert storm is right on schedule for the course. so i live in the world, understand big countries cannot invite small neighbors and get away with the 1st

gulf war shift, 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, a 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 having her job is sort of is somewhat tempted to take that his job off. well, 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, are we starting citizen, my law, 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 who vehicle for the start of with tease of pressure on this community. we have lived in an atmosphere like we have been and i pretty sure they are a big carnival at golf. woodland park preceded tastefully until like this afternoon, the shadow of the gulf war and a perceived divide between anglo and arab australia, loomed over an arab trailing and family festival. in the evening. 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 will lebanese or middle eastern that pulled over and stretched out of the full car, searched month along the road. and it happened quite a quite a bit. after leaving punchbowl boys high fell l. okay. is that university on the threshold of a management career? but he still believes he, the police target i distinctly remember once we were on the north shore, driving around at night, there was a tie off, you know, something we got pulled up by some police and essentially got might the lie on the ground and still 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 same golfing south with sydney and it's young,

lebanese australians who are often to blame. i'm not saying it was a model of model citizen i did straight to the disappointment of his parent. phantom care is not interested in the family, fruit and vegetable business for sam and his friends. there are easier, far, more lucrative ways to make money. me a lot of young men that were 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. so i would steal. i was 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 really booth if i got to seem to get it. i could rebirth a car within a day. there was big money in all my my it's, i'm 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 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 $3.00 and $4.00 cash hills. they were obviously cow rebirth. and they been taking place. there was a 100 over the enemy because to stop you from making your easy money. mm hm. okay. is convicted of a number of offences that escapes a jail sentence. tyran industries that it often bought a t. r in use of the media. increasingly demonizes with 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 pauline 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 central gulf off as hostility increases, the police focus on a new source of conflict, lebanese australian gangsters, ramping up the drug racket. 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 what existing they did happen to low p a straight punch bowl goes from decent, lower, biding suburban, straight to a drug drive through supplying much of bandwidth or what young people with drug users that were 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 and cache create a powerful criminal underworld, it was a new phenomena. this was the development of illinois organized crime model of crime was violence, it was law and was predicated on violence and fee. if people went to the police station to give them any kind of information through the criminal element would know about it and to come to retaliate. we could not trust the police at that time . we wanted to, but there was that sense of fear. ah, things are 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 to see the phone, but one of the most intimate race riot in rang and history on the train born

liberty told to go back to where they came from the alarm. and the thing is strong and flag being carried him away. which honest things, he's totally inflection never 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 talk to alger rome, did you want the un to take and his stop to. we listen, see the whole infrastructure and being totally destroyed. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter. on our sierra the

there is rain in the middle east in july, but it's usually confined to her mind for thunderstorms in the mountain. or stella, where's the cast and drizzly for 3 months? the subsidy amount of cloud is quite unusual and the results have been quite unusual to this is any sonoma, that is what you see a big thunderstorm. the dark underneath and and out of it falls $200.00 many pieces of rain. okay. is that extra? yes. yeah, average for sorry, 3 millimeters. and then the extended the full cost sherry raise right up to the middle of saudi arabia too, was rear towards the average rainfall in doha, in july is 0. so to get any, a toll is going to be unusual. that last through sunday and then it sort of disappears and you get unsurprised michelle forecasts in the, in the south west of saudi arabia, in the mountains. nothing much elsewhere apart from the edge affects the smaller it's hot and dry still in iraq. 47, nearly 15, q 8,

i was thinking the next couple of days. we've been around that for 12 or 3 weeks. that's not out of the ordinary. no wind in the gulf dough, how be she been 39. and again, the edge of the monsoon beans, it'll be overcast, often drizzly in mogadishu on the coast of kenya, with big shares seasonally so forming in ethiopia. the across the world, young actor bits and organizes the rhonda most motivated and politically engaged. the challenges they face couldn't be more daunting. here in beta, we were the one who had life on what was going on in the way that will mean submitted to them. there's looking stuff like that most of them in on is always in the dynamic formation. we have the agency to create the vibe of the generation on al jazeera. what's most important to me is talking to people,

understanding what they're going through here as we believe everyone has a story we're hearing. ah, ah, the meaning of this jim? i was born in from any of the never left. i did go do, i mean my mother had everybody else going to tell him i i to i

had to go west cities and at least to get ahead, begging for food and just working and lived in a 2 meter. that's the only way to go the been up to date. did that interview just sometimes exceed and my friend is not in the in the i go to the poor people the between the region the the the very be changed.

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