Firstly Individual you are off to a bad start if you’re agreeing with Runner. Runner is somewhat of a bell weather for the rest of us. Once you know what Runner thinks, you know whats not the problem.

The first question I would like the author to answer is... Has he stopped bashing his wife yet?

Now I don't want an answer what I'm doing is commenting on his tone. The fact is with an assult rate of 627 per 100K around 3,000 international students will be victums of such attacks. That’s the cold hard reality of it; we need to reduce all assaults.

I wonder what the assult rates are in India?

There are a number of lunatic fringe racists who will happily bash foreign looking people for the hell of it. The fact that they're Indian is largely irrelevant. This is because the lunatic fringe racist has a rather indiscriminate approach to meting out racist violence; indiscriminate in the sense that they tend not to bother asking their victims exactly where they're from or how long they've lived in Australia beforehand.

Whilst I appreciate you taking the time to write something, I'm at a loss as to why you seem to think the 'foreign office' has some obligation to notify their Indian counterparts (presumably the Indian Government) that four, second generation Australians, were assaulted.

Hmmmm,
I have often wondered;
if you object to a do-gooder, does that mean you are a do-badder?

When people complaine about someone having a 'bleeding heart', do they realise that a heart that cannot bleed is dead?

Cheryl 'Are Indians racist. Some. How many? Beats me'

This is not quite right. In Australia we have some inequality but basically we are a meritocracy. India, by contrast, is not. They have a medieval caste system where lower casts are seen as sub-human. They are restricted in every aspect of their lives. This is institutional racism not seen in the West since the dismantling of segregation in the US and is true 'racism to the core'

It's a bit much for these wealthy Indians who can afford to study overseas to then accuse us of racism. What this really is, as hinted by the author's 'the world's landscape has changed' statement, is that Indians now feel they are a superpower and wish to be treated as such. Pity those millions upon millions of poor Indians paying for these wealthy few to study overseas, get an international qualification and suffer the 'racism to the core' in australia.

Actually Dane, the Indians are a superpower. Get used to it.

Which India are you talking about? There are millions of India's. Are you talking about the radical Hindu elements who go around destroying Muslim mosques or are you just having a go at the old caste system?

There's no doubt there are social problems in India. I don't reckon the majority of Indian students studying here give a fat rats about allegations of assault. Damned right they shouldn't happen.

I mean, why do bad things happen to good people? Answer that one Dane. That's what we've got a good case of here.

Rohit,
I tell you what, you can help us. As you said the Vic police will not disclose who the student attackers are (probably under direction from the Vic government, not to) and I reckon you are in a perfect position to know who the attackers are, so tell us. If you do not know then your readers do. Are they anglo aussies or other ethnic gangs?

The media, in Sydney disclosed that the attackers there were Lebs looking for easy targets to rob for laptops and Ipods, etc. There are strong rumours that the attackers in Melbourne are African refugee immigrants. Is that correct?

I, for one, want to know because it seems that anglo aussies, although far from being angels, are being unfairly called racist thugs.

Are the students being attacked because they are Indian or simply because they are seen to be easy targets.

I am disgusted by our governments because, by ommission, they are willing to let our anglo aussie youth take the blame for the attacks. The problem cannot be dealt with untill all the facts are laid openly on the table.

This includes the ethnicity of the attackers.