Not a great import to this country

I'm not convinced our immigration and refugee programs have properly considered issues of integration. From today's papers…

Item one:

A GROUP of young males trapped a 21-year-old woman in her laundry before raping her while her children slept nearby, a court has heard.

The seven males, aged between 14 and 21 and who came to Australia as refugees from Sudan or Afghanistan, yesterday applied for bail in the Bendigo Magistrates' and Children's courts.

Police told the hearings Mohammad Zaoli, 21, Aru Gar, 19, Mohammed El Nour, 18, and Akoak Manon, 18, and three youths aged 17, 16 and 14 came to Bendigo from Shepparton to go nightclubbing last Saturday.

Item two:

SENIOR police met with Kings Cross nightclub owner John Ibrahim yesterday amid fears the attempted murder of his oldest brother Sam could spark a full-scale bikie war....

The meeting was held as detectives revealed former bikie boss Sam Ibrahim, a life member of the Nomads outlaw motorcycle gang, would have known his attackers…

Police will flood Kings Cross this weekend, with the riot squad, officers from Strike Force Raptor - which has been targeting the bikies - and the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad swelling local police ranks in the wake of the shooting....

(John Ibrahim's) second youngest brother Fadi, 36, still bears the scars of the attempted assassination by a balaclava-wearing gunman after five bullets slammed into his black Lamborghini in June 2009.

In December last year, the Ryde home of one of the Ibrahim sisters, Armani Haddad, was targeted in a drive-by attack - with 25 bullets peppering the house…

With his behemoth of a bodyguard Semi Ngata, better known as "Tongan Sam", glued to his side wherever he goes, John Ibrahim declined police assistance last year after reports a price had been placed on his head, supposedly by members of the Comanchero bikie gang.

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