Dear Cheryl,

Interesting reading in the article ozzie talks about. Those search terms he states worked for me and appears first on my search result. Reading half way down the article clearly describes how the men involved were all of African decent. Maybe our immigration laws do need to be looked at. I never knew this.

PS Cheryl I used the search terms-

Sun herald we're not the racists

and it was first on the list.

regards, Giao

Thanks Giao, what's the link?

Cheryl - ozzie's talking about an article that appeared in the Melbourne Herald-Sun, rather than the Sydney Sun-Herald. Unsurprisingly, it's a classic beat-up by that paragon of objective Australian reprtage, Andrew Bolt.

The link is http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25578055-5000117,00.html . Of course, ozzie could simply have posted the link rather than playing silly games. Clearly, ozzie wants to divert this discussion into the kind of racist free-for-all that characterises the commentary on the odious Bolt's articles.

On topic, I think it's obviously racist Australians like Ozzie (and Bolt) who give us all a bad name internationally, and bring our national character and flag into disrepute. They are just as bad in that respect as are the thugs responsible for the attacks on Indian students.

I wonder if ozzie (and indeed GIAO) have any sensible comments to make about Malcolm King's article? At this stage, it doesn't look like either of them has actually bothered to read it.

As other posters have pointed out, the entire higher education sector in Australia has essentially become one giant immigration racket, with our universities being shamelessly used as visa factories for foreign students lured here solely by the promise of permanent residency upon graduation.

As Dr. Peter Wilkinson wrote in his eye-opening book “The Howard Legacy: Displacement of Traditional Australia from the Professional and Managerial Classes” (Independent Australian Publications, 2007) Australia’s universities “market themselves as providing education but they know, and certainly their prospective applicants know, that they are marketing permanent residency visas.”

Wilkinson notes how the universities are effectively discriminating against Australian students by lowering the standard for full fee-paying foreign students, who can then apply for a visa on the basis of the conceded pass.

Not only do young Australians lose out, but Australia as a whole also suffers. We degrade the quality of our domestic degrees and hand out permanent residency to foreigners who lack the skills to be of any real benefit to the Australian economy. This cash-for-visa scam also provides an almost clear pathway to Australian citizenship, thus diminishing its value and meaning.

If the Federal Government wants to restore the shattered reputation of Australia's higher education sector, it needs to take some responsibility and clean up the mess it has created through its own education and immigration policies. Australian universities should not have to depend on full fee-paying foreigners for income, admission requirements and educational standards should not be lowered simply to put "bums on seats", and a degree from an Australian university should not be a ticket to permanent residency.

Indian students in this country are nothing but trouble and they are laughing at us. They use our fee paying education system as a guaranteed way to a PR visa. I have studied for 6 years with many Indian students who's only intention is to cheat and lie their way through a course, get a master's degree, get a PR visa then SATURATE whatever industry they target (mostly I.T.) with hopelessly unqualified retards.
Why do they get a freaking PR visa for doing 2 years study here? They have just been sold a service - that is all. If I buy a Japanese car for $30,000, does that give me the right to live and work in Japan?
Indians students, please go somewhere else. I do not want you here. I go into the city (Melbourne) and the sight of THOUSANDS of you make me want to PUKE :( You have all ruined my beautiful city.
Call me racist but it was people like my parents, that Cheryl is so fondly reminded of in ‘The Sullivans’ that built this great county. Not a lot of Pay-For-Stay trash.

Cheryl. "Actually ozzie, I can't find it either, so you're blowing it out of where the sun don't shine."
You know why that is Cheryl? It is because the wonderful Indian IT and logistics employees you have did not set the locale to Australia on your computer and you get U.S. results in your search.