The Government must put a stop to this back-door immigration and private ‘colleges’ offering courses to facilitate an easy way to the permanent residence for people not needed by Australia. Indians do not need to come to Australia to learn to cook, wait on tables or drive taxis.

But, when the current government recently decided to cut back on low-skilled immigration, the Opposition decried the only good move Labor has made on immigration. If that’s not opposition just for the sake of opposition, it’s hard to know what is.

If we really need skilled immigrants – because both major parties refused to skill our own people – then the skilled immigrants should already be skilled before they are considered as immigrants; they should be able to speak any understand good English, and have a job to go to in Australia

Permanent residency for international students was scrapped last Monday. A new protocol will be developed in July.

Another of the big groups coming into Australia in this manner have been Koreans. Firstly, many come to Australia to work as fruit and vegetable pickers. While doing so they save money to pay for English and vocational education with the hope of then establishing residency.
Many already have university degrees, so after several years in Australia working as unskilled labour and doing vocational courses, they finally obtain citizenship and then set out to pursue a real career. These will become the young parents of Australian born children, educated in our universities. Like the European immigrants of the post war years, these Koreans will be an asset to Australia.

Lohita,please dont go all paranoid.There is no real targetting of Indian students in Australia. Some unfortunately just happen to be there where anti-social elements are out looking for trouble. If Indian students werent in Australia these attacks would still go on.These hoons are invading the homes of the elderly as well as car-jacking whites and beating them up.It goes with the territory.
Please consider -
1 When there were just 100 students in a populaation of 20 million the probability is that none of them would get attacked.
2 When the numbers explode and there are over 100,000 all over the place the probability is that some of them are going to get hit sooner or later. It's not racism, its pure maths.
If you dont like it then instead of provocative statements that would only imcrease that probability of getting attacked more often, why not simply go home.

socratease

I'd like a few words with those 'geniuses' in the Howard government who thought up this harebrained immigration/education scheme,however the damage has been done.The government should compensate those Indian students in Australia for the financial losses they incurred and pay their fares back to India.

Maybe the 'racial' targeting is all in the framing by the media and by the Indian government playing politics:

http://isamaa.tv/report/2010-01-10-racial-attacks-on-indians-in-australia-or-an-ugly-propaganda/