Have you ever been to Australia? Hell, at least treat yourself to the majesty of Australian crime drama, Holdens, RSAs, and calling people a "dog", Underbelly.

Have you ever been to Australia? Hell, at least treat yourself to the majesty of Australian crime drama, Holdens, RSAs, and calling people a "dog", Underbelly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqvOIr08iuQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqvOIr08iuQ In New Zealand, over the last say, 10ish years at a guess, we've had a gradual but continual increase in organised crime activity - and an escalation in violence. Because Australia started deporting non-citizens who had been jailed for 12 months+ (I think? Or, 12 months+, or could've been jailed for 5+ years or something, even if you weren't). And for historical "fun facts about Australia" racism-by-proxy reasons, very few Kiwis who've lived in Australia all their lives have been able to gain citizenship. So there's been numerous Australian criminals deported to NZ. Among them, Australian organised crime members. Around the same time NZ was getting into methamphetamine, a profitable and growing demand. And well, what do you when you're good at something that makes money, and you need money? So we have seen establishment of chapters of Australian bikie gangs that we never had here before, and they're expanding into areas someone already called dibs on. Deportees have also joined the existing gangs, and the Australian veterans bring two key things to the table - access to networks of suppliers with good product, who didn't bother with NZ before, an effective distribution network, and the ability to provide guns and the means to get them past the ports. The Aussies also brought Aussie gang culture - they were also a lot more shooty than the Kiwi gangs (although there were alway periodic flare-ups) and so when they starting shooting early in the argument, everyone else followed suit, now there's a lot of gang members being shot by gang members when previously might've been a stabbing or a good beating. But yeah, no organised crime in Aussie lol. Certainly not organised crime that has often in the past compromised state police forces. There's also certainly not cartels looking for local partners who want to get some cocaine sold in a historically sadly undersupplied market, nothing bad will happen here. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/19/sydney-drug-raid-ryde-cocaine-arrests-alleged-kidnapping-plot https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/19/sydne...