Is there racialism in this country? Undoubtably yes, no denying it.

But is this racialism the problem, or culturalism / cultural hubris?

I feel resentful when I am on a bus and cannot hear myself think when a group of Brazillian backbackers make a lot of noise. This seems to be a characteristic of parts of their culture, and I don't like it.

I feel resentful like, when today, a group of five Indian students walking as a group forced me off the footpath in inner Sydney.

I feel resentful at the loud car subwoofers playing arabic rap music, that I can hear 100 metres away coming down Bondi Road at 10.00pm on a Sunday night.

I feel resentful when people from other cultures push their way in front of a queue, or think that the expectations of other in this society don't apply to them.

I feel resentful when people from other cultures don't think that Australian laws apply to them.

In short I am biased against the behaviour of certain groups: not the colour of their skin, not what they wear, not their religious beliefs and not their so-called 'race'.

And before Indian students start compalining too hard they should remember that one of their own number escaped justice in a traffic death case by fleeing Australia on a borrowed passport.

There is fault on all sides.

What key point former Senator? The author presents NO evidence whatsoever that the stabbing death (murder) of Nitin Garg was racially inspired, yet sees fit to suggest that we should now call in the so-called professionals from the anti-discrimination field to help devise an anti-racism strategy to protect Indian students.

There has been much hue and cry made about the death of Nitin Garg by the sensationalist Indian media, with some egging on by Indian officials but they are hardly in a place to lecture a country such as Australia about racial tolerance or prevention of violence against minorities.

A very good article. The author rightly points out that Indian students feel let down with the pr education scams that are allegedly rife in Australia. Unfavourable perceptions of government may result if there seems to be no interest in changing things or providing independent reassurance.

But is the behaviour racist? If the concerns of the students are true, it is certainly opportunistic and exploitative. But one need only look at the machinations of Australia's housing market to realise that opportunism and exploitation aren't uniquely applied to foreign students. It could be argued that considerable experience with these tools has already been garnered from their application to the resident population. Perhaps if the housing market had a little less government assistance there might be fewer of the "horror" stories where a few score of foreign students are discovered to be living in squalid conditions in a single dwelling?

I have seen this migrant Andrew Jakubowicz complaining about discrimination against migrants continually. One needs to understand that being either a migrant himself or having migrant parents will naturally make him bias and discriminate in favour of other migrants and against the ordinary Anglo Aussie. This guy has made his whole life out of critisizing white Australia. It's his business. Have a look at the website he developed for Australian students to study. Its called Making Multicultural Australia. It one of the most bias websites I have ever seen. It never presents an equal viewpoint. It is amazing and very sad that Australia has come to this lowpoint. We have let migrants pour into this country who have basically just come from failed countries ( usually due to their own countrymen ), and once they arrive they spend the rest of their time critisizing the people who have been so generous to them.
In relation to his article there is absolutely no evidence at this point that these are racially based attacks. To determine that we need the ethicity of the attackers. The politically correct ( including Andrew)will try to hide this from us. My bet is that most of the attackers will be of ethnic origin. When the 12 Melbourne Indian taxi drivers were attacked in 2008, 10 of the 12 attackers were according to reports of African appearance, yet this was rarely reported. We only hear that the victims were non whites and therefore assume whites must be to blame. Most migrants to Australia come from countries where the rates of crime are far worse than Australia. It makes common sense that they bring some of this crime and violence with them. A Swedish report a few years ago found that migrants were more than 4 times more likely to commit violent crime. Australia does not and will not collect such data as the Multicultural lobby is too strong. According to a report from the Australian Criminology institute the reason for not doing such research is that "differentiation based on parents country of birth could be considered Prejudicial".

Well my response to that would be that it would only give a prejudice opinion if it demonstrated a higher crime rate. If their rates of crime are truly the same as the rest of Australia then surely they would want us to know about this.
To all Australians who do not believe what these migrants are saying it is now the time to stand up and voice your opinons to family and friends that people such as Andrew here and his friends are simple lying and distorting the truth for there own gain. The best way to beat them is to ask them to prove their points with facts, they simple have none.
Before Australia had multiculturalism in the early 1970s we had one of the most successful, friendly countries in the world. There were very few who went without. We are now importing people who have been successful in turning their own countries into 3rd world countries. Many of them are doing the same to Austrlia. Its time for most Aussies to wake up and share your concern.

Ozzie<.." Before Australia had multiculturalism in the early 1970s we had one of the most successful, friendly countries in the world. There were very few who went without."

Very few white Australians went without you mean Ozzie?

Australia has been multicultural since Europeans first colonised this country.
The first Australians were brutalized by many of these new arrivals, and many Aboriginals have certainly gone without, ever since their lands were taken from them all those years ago.

All non-Aboriginal people of Australia then really have no right to complain about immigration to Australia, when all of us are descended from migrants in the first place