Tim,

I am actually interested in something else, rather than what you experienced.

You have an Asian-Australian bride, as do apparently a rapidly increasing amount of other White Anglo Saxon men.

Who is going to marry the White Anglo Saxon Woman? It won't be the Asian man.

This is creating a social timb bomb in my opinion for both of these 'left out' groups. This is a far more serious problem than some yahoo's on a train.

Savvas, I can't say that I consider sociological timebombs in my relationships.

Tim, bad luck, but if you travel by public transport that's the risk you face in Australia. It's not pretty and it is not acceptable to many of us but it is to our government and the courts.

The tolerence of our legal system, the civil liberties groups, the judges and magistrates, not the police, they have to suffer in silence as well.

These offensive people have no fear of repurcussions, they know they will not suffer any consequence, so in effect, the system rewards and reinforces bad behaviour.

Our government in Victoria is making it a crime to speak out as you have done, and incite the community against any other part of the community, but it's OK with people being threatened by thugs and bullies.

One way to stop this, make sure your local member knows and if he doesn't do anything except smarmy letters to you - go check what the opposition is doing, maybe they might get the message this could be an issue.

Some people wonder why Australians don't want to travel by public transport, and stick to driving their cars - you make the perfect case for this - in my car, I am safer than being exposed to random violence on the street or public transport.

I would not expect you to have considered this. For all I know, and I expect, your relationship is ideal.

And as a one off situation, or even as a mild trend, it would not be a problem.

But think about the consequences of what appears to be happening, not for you, but for those that have missed out.

Great article, Tim Watts - I particularly like your practical suggestions for action by ordinary people against this blight on Melbourne's social landscape. I'll be joining your Facebook group today and publicising it among my friends, particularly those in Melbourne.

If our relevant authorities are unwilling to recognise a problem that clearly exists, then the kinds of community action that you suggest are well and truly warranted.

Your articles assumes only minorities are targets and this is the grave msitake. We need to drop the word minority all together. Many of these areas there is no minority.

Recent attacks on Indians has been in the main by minorities.

Anyways I was in Sydney for much of the 90's and the race hate crime was rampant, I could not believe it and I was forced out, never will return to that dump.

Who was racist to who? You name it. I was in one suburb at noon and two groups of ethnic school kids were in the main shopping centre chasing each other down with machetes! there were kids lying everywhere oozing blood.

At least you got on the train. A couple of times I had to let trains go by as they had been taken over by ethnic gangs.

Then of course the hate mail I received suggesting my kids were going to get killed and all skips will be driven out. Police were not interested and we were all labelled racist for being afraid. Xenophobia they called it lol. Anyways we all know the outcome of police and government not acting on that crime spree. Cronulla Riot anyone?

Anyway the trains became populated by Nazi transit officers. So go from ethnic thugs to legalised thugs. Still stressful riding trains and may are being driven from their own cities to escape this dysfunction.

In Brisbane Pacific Islander are targeting Indigenous Australians.

Sinhalese and tamils, they fight each other. Croatians and Serbs. Sexist against white women. In fact I think white women take more anyone but women are not as important as race relations.

Indian students seem to like sex crimes, pedophilia and rape charges and also scams, I guess sexist is not as important as racist.

We need to admit multi-culturaism simply does not work. FAIL.

I was 100% for it. I apologise to Australia for being the generation that forced this social experiment on you.

Integration policy, although not racial did emphasise cultural fit. We should have stuck with that policy.