Ma Edda, my every sympathy for your relatives. This person should not still be walking the earth as far as I am concerned.

But these other kids that got beaten up, they also have my sympathy, no matter what their race.

ma edda

Graham Staines and his children's death was not in vain. Many Christians have been inspired by this servant who gave his life to serve the poor and was repaid by being burnt alive with his children. His wife's words of forgiveness was truly inspirational. I know many fine Indians who see your relative as a hero. Graham and his children are now in a much better place where the devil has no access. Unfortunately for a little while longer God's people will be hated on this earth as they show how corrupt our systems are. Thankfully their is enough of the Christian influence in this nation that allows a sizeable portion of our population being tolerant and even friendly with a large range of immigrants. Unfortunately a few immigrants see this as a weakness and exploit the system to the max. Weak willed politicians trying to suck up to the UN and wanting to remain PC are to gutless to make a stand against these imposters. We have seen this recently with the US President sucking up to terrorist.

According to todays press, there was a rally in Sydney yesterday by Indian students, and others, about violence towards them. It seems most were claiming racism but there seems to be no evidence to support this claim, or the media are simply not reporting it.

So where does this leave the general public? Either the attacks are not racist and the claims are only to get attention, or the authorities and the press are covering the whole thing up.

I seem to recall that just prior to the Sydney Olympics, police issued media releases informing about the number of gang rapes in Sydney's West and warning females to be carefull. These realeases were ignored by the media because they felt it could damage the reputation of Sydney. It disgusts me to see the media collude to do this and put the safety of young girls at greater risk. It would not surprize me if there is non disclosure, in this instance, because of the ethnicity of the perpetraitors.

If foreign students are being attacked, for whatever reason, aside from more policing, we could stop allowing the students to come here and make use of our Unis which after all, were constructed with Australian taxpayers funds for the benefit of Australian students.

Or, maybe chargeing a lot more for less overseas students and using the profit to subsidise more Aussie students.

We should be training more of our own anyway.

Pelican,

You believe that there is not doubt that some of the attacks were racially motivated.

I believe there is always doubt with media reporting. While instances could have been racially motivated, there will always be doubt.

Late news last night showed 3 Indians (students) in front of their burned out cars. They claimed to have been taunted and laughed at about their burnt cars by the perpetrators.
e.g.'I'm sorry we burned your cars ha ha' tend to confirm that there is substance to the issue. bu
Yes there is racism in Aust. I've told this story before
> three boys one I knew and was Anglo Aussie the others appeared to be so were repeatedly riding their bikes past a diminutive Muslim woman with 3 small children on in a push chair. These boys (16yo odd) were kicking at the Muslims and yelling abusive obscenities. Another driver and I chased them off. I reported the event to the police...but claimed "they had to catch them in the act to do anything". I contacted some senior contacts quote " the boys and the police person will be spoken to as the latter breached discipline... the family are well know to us and don't care about warnings"
I know the parents of one boy,they are raging racists, the eldest of six like-minded is a member of several neo-Nazi groups.

The point is Leigh is that every society has a bloc of hard core racists. These are often articulate leaders who give manipulative (nationalistic/racially supremacist) justification for groups like skin heads to stir up wider conflict and fear. This in turn often embroils the larger but still minority, of lessor than reasoned tolerant public.

The media uses sensation to sell advertising (profit)i.e."bad news is good news" .
Generally speaking if it's news it's is sufficiently abnormal to engender sensation. i.e. Murders/pedophiles are a minority of crime but get the maximum coverage.

India is predominately a semi literate/illiterate country so their concern is understandable. They too have stirrer who do so for ulterior motives.

Notwithstanding there IS substance to these claims and we in Aust need to manage this better.

Leigh
Well of course one should always read media reports with some scrutiny. As I said that while some attacks may have been racially motivated the real issue is thuggery.

In this multi-cultural nation, we are all of us, potential victims of racial/cultural/religious attacks. There is no evidence to suggest that Australia is any more dangerous for Indian students than any other student on the basis of a small number of incidents.

I am in essence agreeing with the thrust of your argument.