Tim,
It's been a long time since I traveled on Victorian railways. However don't the trains have cameras? they do in other states

Being a bit of a don Quixote, my response would to have gotten my mobile out and dialed the railway security and said out loud,

" the duty sergeant please....... sergeant My name is John MacIlwraith (made up name) I've just down loaded a video of an young man panhandling and then assaulting some Asian passengers.....have you received it?...... and the sound? good. I'm currently on the X line between Y&Z station, if it continues, I'll call into your offices and fill out the statement for prosecution later to day.... Right sergeant... got that... I'm sure the train's camera will confirm the actions. Thank you"

We had a not dissimilar situation like that interstate only there were 3 of us that "made" phone calls. At the next station you should have seen the 4 trouble makers move once the train stopped....scalded cats come to mind.

As it happened they were later apprehended.

PS. Congratulation Tim on your up coming nuptials

The Missus - I've lived and worked in Singapore. It doesn't have cultural clashes every day. No more than any other place.

A lot of the claims you've made in your posts aren't verifiable. Where is your evidence that race hate crime was "rampant" in the 1990s? Where is your evidence that the attacks on Indians are mainly by "ethnics"? You also claim, "Indian students seem to like sex crimes, pedophilia and rape charges and also scams." This is outrageous, no sane person would write that. Again, theres no evidence to support it. Absurd claims without evidence do not make for a rational argument.

Get over it and get help. And why should the "rich" have to tip for using public transport. Its public .... everybody pays the same rate!

Dear Tim, why exactly is "racially motivated violence .. worse than other forms of violence in our community"?

I would hope that all forms of violence were acted against by our police force and our courts and not ranked in some sort of hierarchy due to who the victim is.

Congratulations Tim,
I was appalled at the police response to the effect the stabbing death of the Indian Student was not racially motivated.
I am concerned at the increase in violence generally, but I believe it is the duty of our representative governments to take action to apprehend and express intolerance towards such acts, particularly on Public transport where inspectors have been removed in the interests of saving money but to the detriment of public safety. I will support your call and post it on my profile to promulgate the move to map the violence.
Keep up the good work.

Tim a sad but true every day thing, but more of us are offended than not.
The first post in comments? almost see that poster as being one of the two on that train.
Never ever give in.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but...

Isn't the anti-Indian violence almost entirely committed by Muslims?

Indians are usually Hindu, and Muslims consider Hinduism another enemy... Pakistan was seperated from India because of this religious schism.

Isn't this anti indian violence the result of one migrant group bringing their hatred and violence of another people to Australia?