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Originally Posted by The Reaper
What a surprise from the religion of peace. 
For the thousandth time this month.
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I love visiting Australia(it's like our Florida/Vegas).
I'm over there approx 4-5 times a year on average(just got back 2 weeks ago).
And I've spent a good bit of time walking about Martin Place and other adjacent areas.
Comparing and contrasting NZ and OZ, both countries are awesome.
But while NZ has(in my opinion) a legitimate problem with a fairly small Somali refugee problem(outsized criminal activity and seeming failure to integrate), I would rate in my anecdotal experience("cab driver and walking around analysis") that Australia has a malignant immigrant integration problem.
There's a substantial ethnic Lebanese population that has developed critical mass in youth gangs and organized crime including bikie gangs/OMGs.
And there are illegal immigration ratlines from Afghanistan to Australia's northern neighbor Indonesia with a large number of Afghan illegal immigrants sitting in limbo offshore in PNG.
Thankfully, NZ is farther away with bigger waves and a continent in between us and them.
But it's our problem too.
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I can only imagine how much more "all hands on deck" this thing got(not only in that neighborhood, but the rest of Sydney, and the rest of the country) once the ISIS flag went up.
10 days before Xmas in a cosmopolitan area and public transit hub(heavy pedestrian traffic, major rail and ferry within 10's to 100's of metres) just across the street from a major media outlet.
It doesn't smell like a crazy loner in need of meds, it seems far more calculated.