RobP,

I not sure I can see police suddenly going from doing little or nothing to the extreme of "overpolicing".

Banjo,

I'm sure there are cover ups by the Brumby Government. I also think that if the Brumby Government hadn't 'advised' (shall we say)police to fudge the statistics rather than do something about the crimes, we wouldn't be talking about the Indian students now.

And, there were coverups by the previous police commissioner about African crime in Melbourne.

I know for sure that, in SA (where we don't seem to have the same problems, (probably because we don't get the numbers of 'ethnics' coming here), that the current Labor Government has squawked about the lowering of crime, but their "lowering" is all to do with reporting several incidents as once, and the general malipulation of statistics. Nobody believes the claims, especially the victims of crime which we all know has not reduced at all.

The day before yesterday, two teachers were attacked by teenage thugs who entered a Catholic school without reason (they were students from a government school, and had no right to be there). They have been charged (for what that's worth) but our total wasted-of-space education minister says it's nothing to do with her because the incident occurred in a private school ; even though her department has not prosecuted anyone for truancy in the past 30 years, and the alleged aggressors were all of school age, but absent.

Idleness and sheer nasty violence, I believe, is the problem; not racism.

Leigh,
these are the sort of reports rgat i have been receiving recently.

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/04/03/42875_ntnews.html

Maybe should start a file

Thanks, Banjo.

And the trouble was between two different ethnic groups.

The Cubillos have been in the Territory since the year dot, the Africans newly arrived. No Anglo-Australians involved.

There is no point in the media and multicultural apologists trying to cover up inter-ethnic 'warfare' by yabbering on about 'white racism' against aboriginal Australians any longer. It was predicted a long time ago that multiculturalism would lead to a fight for supremacy between non-white immigrants whose values and attitudes are light years away from those of the host culture.

I've been searching for this 'press frenzy' thing. I couldn't find it. So I looked up the definition of frenzy-'fury'/'delirious' it said.

It didn't help. I still couldn't find it.

But I saw it:

The man who ran naked down our street the other day was in a hell of a lather!
They dressed him in a nice white jacket,-the sleeves were far too long though;-they had to tie them right around him.

By gee! he was furious-and delirious!

(It was probably because of the sleeves.)

Kevin Rudd came out in Parliament in response to this issue by stating that Australia would endeavour to protect Indian students from racial violence.

I don't think Mr Rudd would have gone as far were it not for the rioting, both here and in the streets of New Delhi, accompanied by the burning of an effigy of the Prime Minister. The article belows throws some light on the whole debate.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/india-turns-up-the-heat-20090605-bykd.html

I think Australia is a racially tolerant nation on the whole, but there is no doubt that some of these students have been targetted on racial grounds. What is not as clear is the ethnicity of the hooligans involved as press reports reveal some of the perpetrators are of a non-white Anglo background. What is not clear is how do attacks on Indian students compare with attacks on other ethnic groups.

Regardless of what race the perpetrators or the victims are, the real issue is thuggery and ensuring that there are adequate resources to protect all people from violence.

I do think there has been a media frenzy on this issue particularly in view of the demonstrations in India. It is too easy to throw out the race card when the issues go far deeper. These assaults are part of a growing problem in our larger cities, and point to a lack of common civility, respect and decency towards other people. We have young people roaming the streets all hours of the night and escalating alcohol-fuelled violence outside pubs and nightclubs particularly in Melbourne.

The other issue is the tendency to see all international students as cash cows for the new education economy. Many of these students will remain in Australia, hence once again the West is taking the best and brightest of other nations where educated and skilled people are desperately wanting.

I don't condone the violence from any of them. The Students I presume are of adult or at least late teenage, and able to defend themselves to a fair extent.

Not so was my relatives young children back in 1999 when here two sons were burned alive along with their Missionary father.

Now it seems "Orissa: murderer of missionary Graham Staines runs for election" The supporters of Dara, whose real name is Rabindra Kumar Pal, have presented him as an independent candidate for the legislative assembly of Ghasipura. Dara was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of leading the group that in the village of Manoharpur, on the night of June 22, 1999, set fire to the station wagon of Graham Staines, killing the Australian lay missionary and his two sons, Philip, 7, and Timothy, 9."
http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=30675&con=18&sec=23

Three lives were lost there, Just leaving Wife, Mother & a Sister to Mourn them, & then move on with their lives. I may not be the only one who remembers & distrusts the Indians who come to our shore for Education & a Better Life.