Evasion of sanctions by stealth?

Simply with international students, it just shows that we'll take anything that moves and has the wherewithal to pay for it.

Then we had the left-backed [Sydney Uni Students Union] backing with legal assistance a case in the Equal Opportunity Division of the Administrative Decision Tribunal so that rich foreign students could get their grubby mitts on half-priced public transport through cut price weekly travelpasses.....even people who are unemployed are denied half prices on prepaid weekly type public transport tickets in Sydney, the Illawarra and the Hunter.

Shows how more and more the "left" or "political classes" are abandoning the local poor and marginalized for "group think" and those around town who don't really want for nothing except maybe bringing their inflated sense of entitlement under control.

It's interesting how the children of the damned will turn out. Gaddafi's son seems a breath of fresh air from interviews he has given on SBS. A thoroughly modern, culturally savvy and broad minded young man with a an exciting vision for Libya. His dad has also re-invented himself at the recent African Union meeting in Accra, Ghana as a champion of pan-Africanism. Gaddafi's vision was for a united African continent under one government, one army and one currency. His aspirations to ferment terrorism/liberation armies around the world replaced with a new agenda that has enormous appeal to the impoverished and dispossessed.

At the other extreme, the genocidal Military Dictator of Sudan, Omar Bashir, has sent his children to Malaysia for higher education. It's hard to see how they can play a meaningful role in undoing the harm done in the South and West of Sudan if they ever take the reigns of power. What lessons can they take home to Sudan? Racial supremacy is also an undercurrent that runs through Malay society. However their controls are more subtle than use of the Janjaweed as a surrogate to repress a population in rebellion.

It's my guess that Mugabe's collaborators in oppression have planned a bolt hole - the Pacific. The regime is unsustainable with the economy in meltdown. Their children will almost certainly qualify as skilled migrants upon completion of their degrees. At least they will be secure, come the day of reckoning in Zimbabwe. In the next year or so, the International Court of Criminal Justice should be home for Mugabe's henchmen, the cells next to Charles Taylor, if mob justice or a secret hide away in a military controlled Pacific nation doesn't preempt that from happening.