It seems that the more multi cultural a country becomes the more violence it experiences. Expecting young police girls to take on ethnic gangs without weapons is not very realistic.

Runner, was this person part of an ethnic biscuit stealing gang?

Amazing what the police keep from us, eh?

What are they scared of I wonder?

Still, the young policewoman of today probably has a Brazilian lurking where we shouldn't think about, so you'd think they'd know how to handle them, I'd say.

Just to call it a "market" is the height of ignorance.

While I have sympathy for the Brazilians family, he may have done us a great service.

If in fact the foreign market is in tatters, we just may have some chance of reclaiming the universities we all fund.

Instead of being run a businesses, designed to fund a really nice life style for an elite portion of the population, they may be salvageable, & returned as places of learning for our kids.

Yes, we'd have to break down some of the old boy network, but as we have just seen with the Qld elections, the masses can get nasty, with enough provocation.

With most fee paying students, particularly foreign ones gone, we might be able to get back to results reflecting ability to learn, rather than ability to pay.

Of course this would mean our universities would be overstaffed even more than is current. Culling the deadheads could return the sector to something approaching respectability.

Now all we need is a law making tenure illegal in any institution receiving public funds, to enable that culling, & we will be starting to get some where.

If all this came to pass, that Brazilian may have lost his life, but in doing so, contributed to our future well being to a very great extent.

No problem in ending tenure. KIlling off the international student market would drop Australia's population by about 700,000 but it would cut revenues by about $10 billion. That's potentially a lot of jobs.

THat's easy to find Chryl by taxing the religion industry and their $30b of untaxed income streams.

Also, by dumping the system wheerby the armed forces order things that will never work, Colins Class subs and 1960s helicopters, rusty used battleships, aircraft carriers for which we have no aircraft, and stike force fighters that no one else is buying, and have yet to be flown for more than a test flight.

In fact, that lot should come to about $100b every year for ever.