Police told the breakfast program there's a problem with groups of Sudanese men out at Noble Park station. JENNY BROCKIE: People were actually beaten up in the camps? I was born in Ethiopia, I grew up in Kenya, I now I am in Australia and very appreciative of all this background. The great Australian Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil tells the tale of 'Another Country', a story of what happened when his people's way of life was interrupted by ours. We are visible to people. Year: 2015. GEOFF HEFFERNAN: Yeah, that was the one. They each stay at the same small hotel by the shore and venture onto the beach where each of the Annes meet a group of the same people including a certain lifeguard who restlessly wanders up and down the beach. Can you tell us why you were called the Lost Boys? JUDY TUT: We don't expect any of us to die the way he did, being killed. Um, we had to survive on basic, you know, things that would provided for to us by the UNHRC. His Assistant Minister for Immigration launched the report and none whatsoever was mentioned in his allegations on African settlement. JENNY BROCKIE: So how much is ramping up about what's happening in terms of crime and how much of it is just making people feel better? Founded in 2010, Another Country is an award-winning British furniture company that designs and makes contemporary furniture and home accessories in the UK and Europe. Now, you organised a conference where you talked about some of these issues. JENNY BROCKIE: Did it make a difference to you when you came back as a police officer? One of my friends. An African, this is not unique to Africans. Air date: 30th October. I would, yes. It's been a magnificent success of a melting pot with a whole lot of nationalities living and working and sort of doing things together. So we afraid that we don't have to be a target of winning election. But there are some police elements which might not make them happy whenever they are dealing with them. Who's committing the majority of the crime in the region, the street crime and those sorts of things? What you were running away from? Does any of this sound familiar to you? DR BERHAN AHMED: Most of it is make up because there is none whatsoever. JENNY BROCKIE: So is that the first time you've heard some of that stuff? But it was quite a hard life, you know. REPORTER: And off the court he was also getting himself in a bit of trouble. DR BERHAN AHMED: Because of misunderstanding. So the parents would not have a word to say to the police because they will not listen to the police and the DHS says that we'll believe the child whatever they says. What sort of things happened? DR BERHAN AHMED: We never told him and I don't remember telling him at all because we produced a report which addressed with recommendations all these issue that are process of settlement. ANOTHER COUNTRY. Um, you know, to look at the whole entire Sudanese community to say they're all bad and they're all involved in gangs is just crazy. And that's where that problem is coming because the family wanting to make the best, the best of their ability in Australia for the best of the kids. I would not deny there are groups of people getting together and some of them may engage in at-risk behaviour but certainly I wouldn't go so far as to say these are gangs and that we've got a Bronx-style mentality out there and that sort of thing. Where did Sanji, who won’t kick women, go?! It's very hard to spend time with 152 different areas, that's for sure, but that's life. He served as a trustee on the Edmonton Public School Board from 1937 to 1941, and as district solicitor from 1945 - 1955. The local blokes just recently, local Australians just wrecked the video shop. But this was in Australia as well because Australian society changed in the last 20 or so years. I have a mother who is very strong and who has helped me but the things that I have gone through have made me stronger. We were in some sense run like animals. PAUL EVANS: And our stats doesn't show anything outstanding in the Sudanese community. Previous ... Movies and food are two of the things we do best at SBS, ... SBS acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia. Have you no guts to stay and fight for your people? 25 years ago we have a lot of settlement services. Um, we've had huge problems with, gangs of Sudanese kids in our store. DR BERHAN AHMED: Right, well, you can smack them. PAUL EVANS: Can I mention that particularly in the last 12 months there's been significantly can be pointed to this particular group and this fringe group of increased assaults, robberies and also increased assaults against police. One up the back, yes. I guess that's the point I'm trying to get to. The personal story of Liep was lost in the discussion. I objected it being called a ghetto and a Bronx because in 1956, I was what was called a bodgie and we used to hang around the streets of Noble Park and the local RSL started up a youth club to get us off and the local constabulary used to kick us up the backside and say get home. MAN: The comment is just regarding to what has been said. Is there a problem with African gangs and violence? JUDY TUT: OK, being trouble is not means like, you know, ending up being killed. BOL DIU GOK, SUDANESE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA: Well, I would definitely say yes. PAUL EVANS: No, I don't think so. Um, some guy...one of them tried to punch me in the head. We're completely out of time. In Another Country . This is Noble Park railway station, 30 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. But by 10:45 that evening he lay badly injured on the side of the road just near the station. JUDY TUT: Well, if we were to be back in Sudan I'd be just sitting, doing things for myself, and my uncles, my mum and my dad would look after the kids and their needs and everything, but here, here in Australia, everyone is busy doing their things. It portrayed many themes that were taboo at the time of its release, including bisexuality, interracial couples and extramarital affairs . That’s what happened here in this scene. What's the view of the police? HELEN DIMOSKI, NOBLE PARK BUSINESS OWNER: I think the majority of Sudanese people are wonderful people also but there is a small minority that are causing problems but I think that the Sudanese people themselves are worried about it too. IAN GILLESPIE: Yes, I believe, my life has changed somewhat from having.. IAN GILLESPIE: A lot more tolerant of the multicultural communities we have here. Give me an example. Synopsis. But I'm sure in time we'll all come to terms with it. Greater Dandenong is a great example of how things can work in this State and in this country. I don't understand how that can be. NYADOL NYUON: I want to just say that, as he said, they're being identified but we identify with something that is wrong so that is just projected to us and then sometimes these kids feel like they have to oppose what is being shown or being portrayed about them. Even though Liep was known to the police, his family remembers him as a loving brother and nephew. Instant downloads of all 1427 LitChart PDFs (including In Another Country). He is best known for his work in theatre and is also known for his breakout performance in the 2020 television drama The Penthouse: War in Life. Country Line Dance Niveau Débutant 32 Comptes 4 Murs 1 Tag répété 2 foisChorégraphe : Bruno MorelMusique : Another Country de Rod Stewart On page 23 of vol 87, Sanji kicked Big Mom, right? REPORTER: Was he breathing by the time you got to him? JENNY BROCKIE: A couple of final comments just about how people think some of these issues can be addressed. Of course we act on that intelligence. You've run it for the last six years. In a segment aired on SBS News, it has been revealed that China has now officially started to refer to South Korea as “Thief Country.”. I remember going for head counts in refugee camps where the UNHCR did a routine count of everybody in the camp and I used to remember how people would be beaten up by policeman and Kenyan police and stuff like that. You came here as a Cambodian refugee yourself 25 years ago. So you'll take the role of the mother, taking them to hospitals, to Centrelink, to school, going to school interviews as a parent, not as a sister or a brother, because your mum.. JENNY BROCKIE: So your role really substantially changes? JENNY BROCKIE: We are going to have to leave it there. It may not necessarily be for that reason. And then they had a big gang called the 3174, all different multicultural kids. O: Ah, the radio show is starting! In north-east Arnhem land, around 500 kilometres east of Darwin, lies a small Aboriginal community isolated from the rest of Australia called Ramingining. JENNY BROCKIE: Nyadol, just to sum up, I'm interested in why you have ended up the way you have, your at university, you've done extremely well, you learnt English in a refugee camp, you had an education in a refugee camp, why do you think it is that you have ended up the way you have and that some of these other young people are really in trouble. BARRY SWANSON: I was bashed and robbed and woke up in hospital. JENNY BROCKIE: Barry Swanson, you live in Noble Park and you said you've been a victim of violence. IAN GILLESPIE: We're here to be honest and probably before..We have 152 different multicultural backgrounds within the City of Greater Dandenong. OCLC. The police have been subjected to a number of, assaults where there's been broken jaws, cuts, bruises, fighting, those sorts of things. IAN GILLESPIE: Look, I wouldn't say I was bad before at all. "Arabs killing your people and culture, and you run. Did it change your approach to this community? What's the problem with that 20? Run from your country when it needs you. There is no big problem. Why are those children being taken away from their families? Synopsis. JENNY BROCKIE: Carolyn, you run a business in Noble Park. If the country listed in the box (under the long string of digits) says “Australia,” then you’re successfully connected and can now visit sbs.com/au to start streaming. Return to your VPN and try another server. Catch up on SBS On Demand. JENNY BROCKIE: So, Geoff, I'm interested then where that leaves you in terms of understanding this community and perhaps understanding some of the problems, not just to justify them. DR BERHAN AHMED, AFRICAN THINK TANK: It's a process of settlement. They're integrating they speak English, they go to school, they go to work, they bought houses, they have mortgages, they're integrating very, very well into the Australian way of living. WOMAN: I've lived in Noble Park for 59 years, I've raised four children and I run a business in Noble Park, a dancing school. NYCHAUT DENG, BASKETBALL MANAGER: He was 18 years and very strong and proud of himself. Another Country is a 2015 documentary film about the intersection of traditional Australian Aboriginal culture and modern Australian culture. NYADOL NYUON: Like, the education system, we had to study, like, half a day, even though we're, like, in a high school level and there were also, situations where you felt you're not being respected as a human being. 264020. JENNY BROCKIE: And if it isn't resolved peacefully, what happens? He was interrogated, and that's what interrogation is. The great Australian Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil tells the tale of 'Another Country', a story of what happened when his people's way of life was interrupted by ours. What would you like to see now happening in this community? Which mean… But before then until the funeral, I was really living in doubt that this happened and the way it happened. I wouldn't say there Yes, there's no problem that I can see. I actually experienced one episode when we were coming from a basketball training with a group of young Sudanese kids from Springvale. I've lived in Noble Park for 50-odd years and brought up in a family of six and my wife a family of five and we've brought up kids and grandkids and Noble Park is a great place. SBS new series will see recently released prisoners taking up spare rooms in the homes of NSW residents. Please select the editions you would like to sign up to. JENNY BROCKIE: Do you think that's true, Paul? DR BERHAN AHMED: Just to make a point, we've got in Flemington and North Melbourne area was such a problem before. It's been a very interesting discussion. CAROLYN FILLIPONI: That's the first I don't have much to do with the Sudanese personally. Four weeks ago 19—year-old Liep Ghoni was here, hanging out in his local neighbourhood. I'd like to thank you all very much for joining us here tonight. Directed by Molly Reynolds. John Gibson, I'm interested in asking you a question, a bigger picture question here, because every country has limits on the number of refugees that it can take. Up until now, it was always [Don] or [Dodon]. JENNY BROCKIE: OK, but if that's happening, let's say for argument's sake, and I'm not saying it is, but let's say for argument's sake that is happening, at the same time, are there problems within the community that the community isn't yet addressing adequately. Now, Paul, you came here from Sudan in 2003. He wasn't killed by Sudanese. I think it's garbage to say that there's no problem, with young with a certain group of young Sudanese. DR BERHAN AHMED: One thing, as Africans, we are identified and young Africans in the middle of everywhere are identified and that makes them a specific target. And a lot of Sudanese men hang around in the street as well and they just feel intimidated. JUDY TUT: Our major problem is education. JUDY TUT: Because when you see yourself and the support of your family and your mum, I came here with my mum, and she's a single mum, because if I go doing bad stuff and staying at the station and stuff, it will make her feel bad, and I know she left her husband, or the country or her parents for me to have a better life. GEOFF HEFFERNAN: I actually studied to be a teacher a couple of years ago and when I was on my teaching rounds a young Sudanese girl was placed for her first day in school in one of my classes and she was placed in Year 8, which I think was roughly around her age group, but she couldn't speak any English and I was trying to teach her science, and I just had no hope. The upcoming song, the SBS, is abo...bobo...bout to...bebebeginn!!!!! We do look different. JENNY BROCKIE: So clearly, the tensions are running both ways, at the moment. Three days after Liep's death, two young Caucasian males were charged with his murder. Now, I would say yes, it might be perceived as a gang. I would like Judy to finish that. JENNY BROCKIE: So you feel there is a problem with Again, is it a small number of large people? You've been here since 2003 and you're one of a group internationally known as the Lost Boys. Sprawling and introspective, Another Country explores the many forms love and longing can take. Language: English and Yolngu language. Is that right? Alright, we have general agreement on that. VICTORIA POLICE: There's a very small group of young men who live, in particular, around the Noble Park area, and I'm talking about a core group of about 20 young men aged between 14 to 23 and there would be another group, the fringe of that group again, about another 20, similar age group, who are part, part of that. GEOFF HEFFERNAN, NOBLE PARK STORE MANAGER: The last three years mainly it started. SBS World Movies Weekly Highlights 12 - 18 April, Melbourne International Film Festival 2012, 'The Bureau' star Sara Giraudeau talks texting and French film fest comedy 'The Wedding Speech', French rom-com ‘Antoinette In The Cévennes’ will charm you, Chadwick Boseman’s posthumous Oscar nomination puts him in rare company. 357 were here. Just a final comment from you. JENNY BROCKIE: Why your house was crying. I arrived in March 2004. SBS acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia. This is the challenge for settlement. You received an email recently, didn't you, on a Sudanese website. I'd like you to tell me this story. If he knows the Sudanese, as these people do, he would not Sudanese are doing a lot of stuff. JENNY BROCKIE: And a lot of that media attention suggested that Sudanese gangs might have been the problem. Ask Amazon Alexa for the latest SBS News or listen to SBS Radio. D: It might be too quick to ask, but why have you been using the sound effects [Beben] and [Ben] in Wano so far? As she said, she have a shop in Noble Park and her customers, they will lock the door because they're afraid of Sudanese, not because of what happened, but from the look, they look different. So that smoke alarm make me feel scared after a while. GEOFF HEFFERNAN: Isn't it the Immigration Department's or refugee department's job to make sure these people do integrate well? So for that reason the problem for the mothers is too much to cope with Australian way of life and understanding and the surroundings, especially the police too, they don't understand the African sort of understanding because they need a process of understanding for the mother. As was quite rightly said, there are other nationalities involved as well but having said that .. PAUL EVANS: Yes, that is right but currently the issue and what stands out the most are the Sudanese young people. I didn't know...I didn't speak this much English before and, if I was them, I would be depressed, go on the street, drink, stay at Noble Park train station because I cannot study and I cannot go to work because I can barely speak the language. 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Because it seems like we're not quite.. We're not quite getting to the heart of this. Part of our On the Run collection. The Sudanese are new to our community, reasonably new to our community, and this was a chance for us to get in right at the grassroots level and the chance for us to make a difference and, as a result of going to Sudan, we've seen some stuff that most people won't see in their lifetime. “United States”, “France”, “[your country here]”), then you may not have connected successfully or have a leak. What do you make of all this? JENNY BROCKIE: So you burnt something when you were cooking and the smoke alarm went off? And the Government has said it's shifting the balance to favour refugees from Burma and Iraq. But I had...I was attacked. I'd say around 50% of the incidents are Sudanese and there's nowhere 50% Sudanese in Noble Park. Paul, you've ramped up the police presence here. BOL DIU GOK: I wouldn't say there is a problem anyway. PAUL EVANS: Well, there can be and, look, we've spent many years building up relationships with the Sudanese and many communities and, remember, Greater Dandenong has 151 nationalities living in the community of Greater Dandenong. What we're talking about tonight is a very small core of individuals. BOL DIU GOK: I would definitely say no. The shopping environment is very good, a lot of police members live around there and very proud of Noble Park, and it is a great community, but I think it has a bit of a belting recently, with the media it's had And part of what we've done is ramp it up to give that confidence back into the community. JENNY BROCKIE: Well, welcome, everybody. We're here because the Government is pointing to problems with race-based gangs and violence and says some groups are having trouble settling into the Australian way of life. WOMAN: Yes, every time the how do you call it? We began the program with the story of Liep, your cousin who died. However, we've got to look a little bit closer at that and see why the youths are getting together. IAN GILLESPIE: That's a political argument I don't think I should get into. For a while it was almost on a nightly basis. Do you think that happens? Paul Evans, do you see problems of violence within the community, between families? JOEY HERRECH: I'm a different person after coming back here and I think the Sudanese community here would agree with me if you walk a day in Sudan it changes your life. This is the only way you can save your people.". They were not Sudanese. Now there was also a story when you first started cooking. Some peer groups remain behind and along the way we got a lot of difficulties. No. You heard the story of Liep's death earlier tonight. Do you accept that? The police told me that the three young gentlemen who did it were Sudanese. Look, there will always be racists in any society, I don't care where you come from. 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