And the point you are trying to make is......?

I personally have a few gripes against the so called academic sector. Most of the reports they concoct are absolutely useless which have almost no relevance to anything but academic pet projects.

Michael in Adelaide is right to ask so what? I suppose that unis such as Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney who have large bequests might be OK.

Although Adelaide has major debt to equity problems and there are plans to do a Sydney Uni style cull of academics who haven't published three refereed papers in the last two years.

Unis such as Monash, RMIT, QUT, Uni NSW, etc, who are exposed to up to 30 percent of their cash flow derived from international students will be worried as the killing of this student comes too close to the Indian student assaults. How long can some of these unis can keep trading on without sacking staff? That's the story

"The death of a Brazilian student after being tasered by NSW police in Sydney could not have come at a worse time for Australia's embattled international student market which last year lost $3.3 billion in revenues."

So, when would have been a good time to kill an alleged dangerous ginger biscuit thief?

Perhaps never? Hopefully never anyway, because anyone of us could be next.

Although Brazilians seem to attract police killings, particularly when ovrseas trying to learn English, this has nothing at all to do with Australia running a university system off the backs of foreign students.

That we rely on this to have universities is appalling enough, but to link the murder of this man to a danger of a downturn in moneyspinning is grotesque.

Our police cannot be trusted with guns as it is, fancy giving them another lethal weapon to hang off their self-important swagger belts!

Remember after the police murdered the man by shotting him hundreds of times with a Tazer? The next week the Qld police had a mentally ill person to apprehend, so, conscious of the bad press when their (NSW?) colleagues Tazered a man to death the week before, they shot this fellow with a gun instead, saying they 'knew he had a heart condition and didn't want him to suffer the possible Tazer effects'.

Oh yes, I think that came from the police intelligence unit.

...Malcolm. The obvious question to be asked here is why were “six” police on the scene when a thief stole a packet of biscuits from a convenience store? Obviously there is more to this story than meets the eye. Egg on your face is the risk you take with your stand with this issue.

..."Realism has it" the already established cause for the decline in foreign student numbers, is directly related to a negative effect of the relationship of the high Australian dollar, which is (in turn), connected to the economic heat generated by the mining boom.

The Blue Cross:

...A very entertaining and succinct post...

Malcolm,the identity of the Tazered victim was not known until after his death, so it was not a police attack on a foreign student as such. He could have been a Packer or a Murdoch for all they knew or cared.
The fact that the victim was a student from Brazil will now play out in a way that will require all of Bob Carr's alleged skills in diplomacy.
What is required is an independent inquiry into all branches of authority who carry arms and are authorised to use force on our behalf i.e police and the military.
In conjunction with that or perhaps arising out of such an inquiry should be a permanent standing body to investigate all matters relating to excessive or unauthorised use of force, acts of bullying, corruption and the fostering of cultures inimical to the proper functioning of armed institutions.
Bruce Haigh