Why are Indian students being targeted in Australia?
Well in the last few months I can remember 4 Indians that have been murdered in Australia. 3 of these were killed by Indians and we still don't know the nationality of the other killer. Maybe, just maybe we should be asking-
Why are Indians killing so many people in Australia?

Quite right,Ozzie.
Yesterday three Indian students living together had a fall out over money and two brothers died in a fight about 3 am. The Indian student who killed the brothers, were the only children of Indian parents. Very sad, but it was a case of Indians preying on each other. We need to ascertain the truth over even the so-called muggings. There are groups of Indian students from different parts of India who will attack each other. Northern indians, especially those from hariyana, cannt stand southern Tamils.

socratease

Thanks Lohit it’s interesting to hear your opinion as an Australian resident of Indian heritage. I learnt a lot from your article.

I think immigration is an important issue because over the next couple of decades the number of elderly (non-taxpaying) Australians will be the biggest proportion of our population and this will create a huge tax burden for the nation. It seems obvious that we could use an equally huge influx of healthy, industrious young people into the areas of vocational training where there are currently shortages (hair dressing, hospitality, butchery, plumbing and many of the building trades to mention just a few).

I say clean up these ‘educational scams’ for sure so that all international students gain properly recognized qualifications; but we shouldn't shut the door on what could be the easiest answerer to our top heavy population problem. Australia needs a bigger population of tax payers than it can grow at home.

Lohit,let's see if you are really serious about your concern for the safety of Indian students. Do you really want to know why Indian students are/were attacked in melbourne?
Why not contact the Indian-Australian Business men's Association and ask the President for a reply.
I have been informed by a senior member of the organization (I may have got the exact name of the organization wrong,but never mind !)whose name I cannot divulge without his permission. He told me that they have tried to interest the Victorian Premier and Minister of Police with the names of the Indian students who are responsible for the attacks and many other anti-social acts of a criminal nature. But they werent interested.No one in authority really want to know.Indian students are preying on each other. many "students" on student visas have forged them or bribed to get them. Bribery is an occupational feature of Indian bureaurcracy.

OK, so now make contact and ask the hard questions,Lohit.

socratease

Janette: "It seems obvious that we could use an equally huge influx of healthy, industrious young people into the areas of vocational training where there are currently shortages (hair dressing, hospitality, butchery, plumbing and many of the building trades to mention just a few)."

Yes, to someone worried only about their immediate future it would see obvious. What better way to fix the problem than to import some a phalanx of youngsters to look after you in your dotage.

If you looked slightly longer into the future though it might not seem so obvious. Who is going to look after that now larger cohort of young people once they grow old? Maybe we just import an even larger phalanx of youngsters to look after them. Rinse, lather and repeat - growing the population every time.

Obviously such a solution isn't sustainable in the long run. We have to find a way to address to ageing population problem without growing the population. Well, we don't have to, as right now we could sustain a population growth. But if we don't fix it now our kids will have to, so in effect we are just pushing the problem onto to them. Why shouldn't we be the ones to fix it? After all, we are generation that created the problem.

As for the topic at hand, assuming lol's stats are accurate s/he nailed it. There isn't a Indian violence problem. Well if there is one, it is the media making a mountain out of a mole hill.

For a start, Indian students are not being targeted, many poeple travel alone at night and also get robbed and/or assaulted.

Second, Australian tourists get assualted, robbed, even kidnapped and murdered every year in India. Our athletes are not safe to play sport there.

So what does it mean when a particular ethnic group claims racism where there is none. This same group comes from a culture where via the caste system and other, discrimnination due to birth is considered normal. They come from a culture where there is a wealthy middle class the size of the US, yet the rest of the country is in poverty due to severe lack of sharing through decent taxes.

The fact that the Indian students complain about something normal (being assaulted/robbed late at night if the victim is well dressed and alone), to me shows that they believe they are overly important (probably due to the fact that they are wealthy in their homeland) and extremely racist/tribal in all their thinking, since they approach these attacks full of bias and prejudices and false facts about this nation.