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Australia is basically a commodity economy. They make and sell nothing and really have nothing to offer India beyond commodities. :rotfl: .

It is of no strategic importance beyond that at all. Not a significant market,no technology, no nothing of any value. It has only nuisance value and it basks in it's role as Uncle's deputy sheriff in A-Pac. Oh anyways, really a country of not much consequence ,but an outsized sense of self importance and a bloated self image.

Easily one of the most racist countries around and with a very high proportion of feral yahoos in the overall population. So lets not kid ourselves of Australia's importance if any.

Point is, when you can deal with his master, why deal with the poodle?
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Australians at it again. The game nobody can beat them in the world : Racism
Look at the statistics they have presented. The group that presents less than 1.5% of total migration to Australia is a major source of Migration. Funny enough. :rotfl: :rotfl:
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Australia navy off for Christmas
Most of Australia's navy is to be given two months off over Christmas as part of a new strategy to cope with crew shortages, the defence minister says.
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January 26th is when Indians revel(and 99% of us barely remember) in something we take for granted: a constitution that was written under the leadership of a respected legal scholar from a socially backward segment of India.

But not so for other natives in remaining colonial outposts. "Happy Australia Day" has a totally perverse meaning that reeks of colonial arrogance and oppression to the Aborigines. I hope no Indian wish any Oz-ian this insulting greeting.

To all my fellow colored brothers down under. We hear you and one day we hope to gather sufficient wits to help publicize your plight......

Excerpt from wiki:
Australia Day, also known as Anniversary Day, Foundation Day and Invasion Day, is the official national day of Australia :-? . Celebrated annually on 26 January, the day commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, marking the start of British colonisation of Australia :evil: . Australia Day is an official public holiday in every state and territory of Australia, and is marked by the Order of Australia and Australian of the Year awards, along with an address from the Prime Minister.
I admire the Aborigines. If anyone wishes me Happy Vasco da Gama day in my face, I dont think I can show the tolerance that these gentle people are showing.
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The navy has some 12,000 personnel in total - a shortfall of some 2,000.
Aussie navy is finding it tough to fill only 14000 posts? :-?

And i thought India was having shortages.
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they have much smaller population. motivation might be another problem.
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Rahul M wrote:they have much smaller population. motivation might be another problem.
Yes, but 14000 is not a huge number.
I would have understood if they had the force size of almost Indian size but there seem to be deeper issues if "genetically rough and tough/made for outdoors" Oz is able to find just 14K people to amn their navy.
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http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Aus ... #more-5301

In that link an Australian MP hints at China and India as potential threats in the same breath. What gives?! :-?
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The Australians fear it is only a matter of time before the Chindians do to them what they did to the aborigines, hence the China/India alarm.


(WRT to the above commoditis-only posts Australia has been producing some world class biomedical research of late)
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Office of National Assessments, the contingency planning arm of Australian intelligence. Its present director, Peter Varghese, is to become ambassador to India.
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Obviously of mallu extraction... maybe father only
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If this is the guy, he seems to be all-in Mallu.
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Defence spies on its minister
OFFICIALS in the Defence Department have conducted a covert investigation into their own minister, leaking personal information about Joel Fitzgibbon's relationship with a wealthy Chinese-born woman with past financial ties to Beijing.
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More dishy details about Oz's Def.Min. and his Chinese sweetheart.Shades of Christine Keeler? Does one see a parallel here with a certain Chinese doll,daughter of a top PLA Gen. who was a regular visitor to the Clinton White House,allegedly involved in shady funding of the Clinton campaign!

More details here:
(Clinton ‘Lie’-braryhttp://www.papillonsartpalace.com/clintlieon.htm
Back to the Clinton Criminal Page)

No wonder Oz Intel. agents were deeply worried about their chief's philandering. Amazingly,both Chinese molls are called "Liu"!
However, Australian Securities and Investment Commission documents show several of her companies had Chinese Government-owned enterprises as shareholders.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 978789.ece

PS:For Hilary Clinton';s close ties with top Chinese officials,just take a look here and you will see why on herrecent visit to China,no mention was made about China's human rights record,Tibet,etc.Her "Chinese heel" will be her downfall at a laterd ate,as she will come into sharp conflict with those in the US admin. who see China as a real threat to US and global peace.The latest US defence warning about China's desire to militarily dominate Asia,infuritating China,is a case in point.

http://members.tripod.com/~GOPcapitalist/figures.html
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Australia rejects China takeover
Friday, 27 March 2009
Australia has rejected a Chinese state-run firm's $1.7bn (£1.2bn) takeover bid for Australia's Oz Minerals because of national security concerns.
Australia Blocks China’s Purchase of Mining Company
The decision to block the purchase of OZ Minerals, a mining company, by state-owned China Minmetals Corporation, coincides with a heated debate concerning a much larger investment that the Chinese metals company Chinalco is planning to make in the British-Australian mining group Rio Tinto.

Two weeks ago, Chinese antitrust authorities blocked a move by Coca-Cola to take over Huiyuan Juice Group, a Chinese juice manufacturer, for $2.4 billion — a decision that caused widespread concern about China’s attitude to foreign takeovers of local companies.

Rudd Threatened by Australian Backlash to China’s Rio
Rudd also can’t afford to alienate China, which buys almost half of Australia’s mineral exports
Today:

Chinalco raises $21 bln loan for Rio deal

Rio Tinto not eager to sell diamonds, uranium
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ATF shouldn't have rushed to ITF on Davis Cup: Gill
Sports Minister MS Gill on Wednesday lambasted the Australian Tennis Federation for asking the ITF to shift next month's Davis Cup tie against India out of Chennai, saying the ATF should not have rushed to the world body without discussing its security concerns with the Indian government.
"I believe the Australian tennis federation should not have rushed to the world federation (ITF) seeking to change the venue of the Davis Cup tie scheduled in Chennai (from May 8 to 10). Chennai is in fact the safest place in India and a tennis stadium, at best, accommodates 3000-4000 people and we are in a position to make it absolutely safe for them," Gill
said.

"There simply was no reason for them to rush to ITF without checking either with us or the Indian High Commission in Australia. I regret they have done so. If countries start worrying like that and make such hasty reactions, there will be a negative impact on interactive sports visits in all the games," he added.
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Australia must boost military to deal with China rise: think tank
Australia should triple its submarine fleet to 18 vessels and double its order for F-35 Joint Strike Fighters as well as increasing the number of infantry troops available for regional deployments.
Australia could not assume it would retain its status as a middle-ranking regional power as its neighbours expanded rapidly in what is being dubbed "The Asia Century". "The long-term trends suggest that Australia has no choice but to spend more on defence or accept a steady decline in strategic weight," he said.

"A mere 20 years ago, Australia's economy was the second largest in Asia after Japan -- larger than either India's or China's.

"How quickly the balance has shifted."
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Vina,
Australian economy is not just primary comodity based. It also has a huge service sector. Lots of money earned in the Far East and Indian sub-continent ends up parked in Australian and NZ banks apart from european and north american banks. You may ask why? Partly because the Asians including Desis don't trust their own banks as much as they trust the gora operated banks. Unfortunate but true. Also, billions keep flowing into Australia from mostly the above mentioned places including from Indians for the purchase of properties both residential and commercial partly due to almost no restrictions on ownership. Billions also keep pouring in in the form of college tutions.

As much as you may envy their success, you have to give it to them for maintaining the gora aura that continously attracts money and people from without because compared to many socities in the world they strive to maintain a level of transparency and integrity on the professional level. How do you explain piddly New Zealand's high level of living standard for an economy that for a long time depended on sheep farming and cheese making? For they too attract investments far larger than their weight.

Those who carry sympathy for the historic injustice metted out to the Mouris and Australian Aboriginals, please know that the moment you buy land or property in either NZ or Oz or go there for education or for vacation or for business then you have indirectly contributed to such injustice. Same case with the Americas.
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Chinese Headache for Aussi Agencies - IOL

Several defectors from China’s State Security department (Guoanbu) have informed ASIO in recent years about how Beijing targets senior officials at Australia’s foreign affairs ministry and immigration service. In a bid to fend off Chinese offensives, ASIO launched a campaign in 2007 to recruit Mandarin-speaking investigators and intelligence operatives.

Another worry for ASIO is Beijing’s potential to break into the inner circle surrounding Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd, who was ambassador to Beijing and speaks fluent Mandarin. Elsewhere, the country’s defense minister happens to live with a Sino-Australian businesswoman.

The hunt for Chinese agents within the government has become a specially sensitive subject in recent months because Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board must shortly rule on whether to allow the Aluminium Corporation of China to acquire a major stake in the mining giant Rio Tinto.

Western intelligence agencies that usually work hand in glove with Australia have recently tended to shy away from cooperating with ASIS and ASIO for fear that information they trade with Canberra could be picked up by Chinese moles in Australia’s government and passed along to Chinese intelligence agencies.
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Federal Government to increase defence spending to $300bn
In the biggest military equipment upgrade in the nation's history, the Defence White Paper details a $100 billion shopping list that includes new submarines, warships, fighter jets, cruise missiles, helicopters, spy planes, drones and cyber-warfare equipment.
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Defence funding: how will we pay?
"To achieve those savings, Defence will have to be driven harder than it has ever been driven before," he said.

"There's a lot of waste and inefficiency in Defence. [The savings] can be done but only by really fundamentally changing the way Defence operates."
"There is a real issue, too, about the strategic underpinnings of this white paper. It seems to be based upon the anticipation of a major conflict with China, something most people would regard as being very unlikely."

But Opposition defence spokesman David Johnston questioned the paper's emphasis on the perceived threat in the rise of China's military strength while relegating near-failed states like Pakistan, which possesses nuclear weapons, to a passing reference.
The paper outlines how Australia would develop its defence forces over the next two decades. Mr Fitzgibbon said the white paper "possibly represents the most comprehensive review of our strategic outlook and our defence needs in the history of the federation"
Aussie government has woke up suddenly after many years of hibernation. How come Rudd government suddenly realised there is big imbalance between military expenditure in Asian powers? China has been increasing defence spending since last many years now. Perhaps current fiscals India's increase in defence expenditure rung wake-up bell! While they apparently perceive threat from China and Pak but no mention of India's next gen defence. Something to be read between the lines I must admit.
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posted by guarav_s in the int mil thread

China, India 'may stir up regional war': army report
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A prudent approach on China
Gerard Henderson
There is a group of strategic commentators and academics down under who seem to believe that modern Australian foreign affairs and defence policy should be primarily determined in accordance with China's wishes. It's an all-the-way-with-Beijing school and its members have been out in force before, during and after the release of the white paper at the weekend by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and the Defence Minister, Joel Fitzgibbon.

No serious commentator doubts that, over recent years, there has been a military build-up in the wider Asia-Pacific region. The key players are China and India. The white paper, Defending Australia, is focused on the defence of Australia. But it is also concerned with stability and security in the South Pacific and East Timor, along with military contingencies in the rest of the world. In view of this, it could not have ignored China's ongoing military modernisation.

It didn't. This has caused angst in China and among some commentators in Australia. The report is both considered in analysis and moderate in tone. The Rudd Government reaffirmed Australia's longstanding "One China" policy, meaning that Australia regards Taiwan as part of China.

However, it draws attention to "the pace, scope and structure of China's military modernisation". The report acknowledges that China in recent years has begun to explain its military plans but argues that it needs to do more. It maintains that if China does not do so, "there is likely to be a question in the minds of regional states about the long-term purpose of its force deployment plans, particularly as the modernisation appears potentially to be beyond the scope of what would be required for a conflict over Taiwan".

This is an unexceptionable comment. The Chinese leadership has not explained its military plans to any nation. Not to its neighbours Japan and South Korea. Not to the United States. And not to Australia. China can learn about Australia's intentions up to 2030 by reading Defending Australia. The leadership in Beijing has not produced its own like document.

To some extent, the white paper continues the policies put in place by John Howard and his advisers in recent years. Asked at the launch on Saturday to delineate what was different, the Prime Minister drew attention to the navy upgrade (including the construction of 12 submarines and the acquisition of eight frigates), the confirmation of the purchase of 100 Joint Strike Fighters, the acquisition of 1100 protected vehicles for the army and the response to the cyber-security challenge.

In his answer, Rudd spoke about the continuing need for Australia to secure its sea and air lanes. This, after all, has been the focus of the defence of Australia since Federation - initially Australian security was determined by the sea, later by the air and sea.

It makes sense for Australia, as a middle power, to project force, as far as this is possible, to protect sea and air lanes from attack. They may be the military of another nation, or such non-state actors as al-Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction. The white paper makes it clear the alliance with the United States is central to Australia's security. But it also makes the obvious point that Australia should - and will be expected to - attend to its own security needs in the first instance.

In view of this, it is obvious that Australia will be concerned about the military build-up in the Asia Pacific, which has the capacity to adversely affect the security of our sea and air lanes. The word from Beijing is that the Chinese leadership does not approve of this approach. It is said that Michael Pezzullo, the principal author of Defending Australia, received this message when visiting China last week. In any event, a Chinese military strategist, Rear-Admiral Yang Yi, has expressed this criticism publicly, as has an anonymous Chinese diplomat.

China's position has received some support in Australia. Last Saturday, journalist Michelle Grattan commenced a column by opining that "those with long memories will recognise in this white paper a modern, sophisticated version of that old Australian fear - the yellow peril". This is mere hyperbole.

Even before its launch, the strategic commentator Rory Medcalf reported, following a visit to Beijing and Shanghai, that Chinese security analysts are "baffled by the sounds from Australia, which they see as inconsistent with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's wish to bridge differences between China and the US". Medcalf even criticised Rudd for (allegedly) being "at odds with the direction of US-China relations under President Barack Obama". It seems Medcalf believes Australia should slavishly follow US foreign policy. Fancy that.

The fact is that Defending Australia does not suggest that China is a threat to Australia. Moreover, for obvious reasons, Australia can never threaten China. The Chinese leadership may be upset about Australia's concern about the security of the region. Yet this position is shared, to a greater or lesser extent, by the leadership of such democratic nations as India, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea.

So far, Rudd has adopted a balanced position on China. In a speech in Townsville in September, and again in the white paper, he has expressed genuine concern about China's military build-up. But he has also made it clear that Australia should work with China on both economic and security matters. In political terms, the surprise turns on criticism by the Opposition Leader, Malcolm Turnbull, of the white paper's position on China. From the leader of the Liberal Party, this is unexpected.

Gerard Henderson is executive director of The Sydney Institute.
Oz government is finding itself between the rock and very hard place. They dont to upset China at any cost for their trade reasons but cant go away with the fact that China's military buildup could be threat to Australia. Rudd government is trying to be very careful while dealing with China as far as defence report 2030 is concerned. This could be one reason why there is not much mention of India's next gen defence in the report. On the other hand Aus Army has said China & India's military actions are real possibility.
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An arms bill in search of a threat

A look at the recent defence white paper by Tom Hyland (international editor of The Age, Melbourne)
YOU'RE in great health. Nature, geography and good luck shine on you. You're immune to global contagions, as fit as a marathon runner. Then along comes an insurance salesman who warns that you might get leprosy. The salesman — let's call him Kevin Rudd — gives you a 138-page insurance policy written in language you don't understand. He wants you to sign, in case things change for the worse — a prospect he concedes is unlikely. And the premium? No one knows, but you and your kids will be paying it for 20 years and it will be at least $100 billion, maybe three times that.
If we've got nothing to fear, the defence white paper amounts to $100 billion-plus shopping list in search of a threat.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/an-arms- ... ml?page=-1
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Train gang bashes Indian student in Melbourne
AN INDIAN student was bashed and robbed by a racist gang in front of passengers on a train home on Saturday, adding his name to a growing list of young Indian victims in Melbourne.
The attack follows a growing number of assaults on Indian students, particularly in the western suburbs.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/train ... -azbq.html

I have been living in Melbourne for the last 22 years. These racist attacks are of recent origin and are of some concern. I wonder if the tertiary students who come to Australia from India are being informed of these type of incidents. What about the recent experience of Indian students in U.S.A / U.K?
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r_subramanian wrote:Train gang bashes Indian student in Melbourne
AN INDIAN student was bashed and robbed by a racist gang in front of passengers on a train home on Saturday, adding his name to a growing list of young Indian victims in Melbourne.
The attack follows a growing number of assaults on Indian students, particularly in the western suburbs.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/train ... -azbq.html

I have been living in Melbourne for the last 22 years. These racist attacks are of recent origin and are of some concern. I wonder if the tertiary students who come to Australia from India are being informed of these type of incidents. What about the recent experience of Indian students in U.S.A / U.K?
Attacks in Melbourne are largely carried out by youths from Middle East. Unfortunately, attacks in Melbourne have increased in recent years. IMO Sydney is doing better now a days as hardly couple of years back few of the suburs in Sydney too were infamous for bashing especially at train stations at night times. Indians, especially students are now quite aware of such happenings in the past.
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Get Lost, Mate

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 07,00.html

...Australians never used to have to say it. Pride in the country was largely unmentioned, taken for granted. In recent years, however, there's been a surge of racially tinged nationalism, particularly among the young and coalescing around the Australian flag, which has become the symbol of a new tribe of über-patriots up and down the land. In 1997, anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson draped herself in an Australian flag for one of the country's most notorious campaign photos — a testament to her "Australianness," and specifically her white Australianness. In December 2005, during the infamous Cronulla Beach race riots, thousands of youths draped in flags rampaged against nonwhites; just a few weeks later, at a large music festival in Sydney, flag-waving revelers were at it again, harassing nonwhites and prompting the event's organizer to decry the "racism disguised as patriotism" that such behavior represented.

On Australia Day this year, for the fourth time in a row since Cronulla, violent nationalism came to the fore...
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I hope and pray, MMS doesn't go to Australia and Aussie phuck PM is never invited to India. If he does come to India, lets throw joota, chappal at this sore loser.
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There was a story of a student on SBS tonight about a student that was bashed in a train. Also showed how students in Australia from India are falling prey to racist attacks and face discriminataion. Oz police is very efficient when it comes to dealing with such issues. AFP is planning to visit India to WARN about such issues before Indian students undertake studies in Melbourne. :roll: :x

Oz's education industry is going to loose millions over coming years if this continues.

http://player.sbs.com.au/naca#/naca/wna ... m-attacks/

Pretty lame..
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International students 'victims of attacks'
Many of the students now say they do not feel safe in the country and have called on the Federal government to take firm action against racial assaults.

Sourabh Sharma came to Australia full of optimism for a new life, but the 21 year old is now bruised, scared and wanting to go back home, to India.

"I'm still shocked, I can't believe this could happen to me," he told SBS.

Two weeks ago when the International student was catching his usual evening train to suburban Melbourne, he was robbed and attacked.

"The people who bashed me, I know what kind of people they are... they don't go to work, they don't study... their clothes are very untidy... I feel bad for them as well".

Today is the first time he has caught a train since the incident.

"I was so nervous in the morning before I entered the train... when I sit in the train and that station come where it happened, I was looking everywhere," he said.

Because of his injuries, he has been advised by a doctor not to work for up to a month. But with school fees, rent and living expenses, Sourabh says he has no choice but to return to his job.

With the story making headlines in India, there are now concerns that Australia's $3.5 million campaign to attract Indian students could suffer.

Sourabh Sharma isn't the only victim.

There are now many cases around the country of international students being attacked.

Another group of young Indian men have all experienced verbal or physical abuse.

They say it might be because they're perceived to be soft targets.

"You bloody indian what are you doing here? You are not part of Australia," Sumit Burdani was told.

The Federation of Indian Students says police have failed to curb attacks against Indians.

But the Victorian Police which has established a joint taskforce with the Indian community to tackle the issue, says progress is being made to assist all international students.

"Looking at education of students and young people in this area - in hope that it will flow onto a wider group of young people," Inspector Ian Geddes said.

A helpline to assist Indian students who are victims of crime has now been launched in Victoria.
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Gerard wrote:In the biggest military equipment upgrade in the nation's history, the Defence White Paper details a $100 billion shopping list that includes new submarines, warships, fighter jets, cruise missiles, helicopters, spy planes, drones and cyber-warfare equipment.
Prahji Oye Balley houn tuhadey. Is this figure in Aussie Dollar or US Dollar? How can Aussie afford US $234(Conversion Rate=US 1=Aus 1.28) Billion defense spending. What are these White Nations upto? Are they secretly planning to join forces and bring chindian down.
Aussie Defense budget is approx 10 times our defense budget. :eek:
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Baljeet, this defence spending is to be used by year 2030. Current Oz defence budget is around USD 24 billion.

BTW there are many people who are already sceptical about savings needed to accomodate such a spending.
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Source: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/stop-h ... ml?page=-1

Stop hesitating, Indians are being targeted
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Odd I read nothing of this in the UK, Canada, US press. Not as newsworthy as some Christians being targeted in India, maybe? Or are white Christians given the benefit of the doubt-perhaps they need 4 white Christians to bear witness (pretty clever that-bear witness).
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pratik wrote:Source: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/stop-h ... ml?page=-1

Stop hesitating, Indians are being targeted
pratik,this issue was taken up some time between late 2007 and up until September 2008 by an action group chaired by Marsha Thomson the MP for Footscray ,infact I was on that group until October '08 as an advisor to Marsha,the VicPol's Multicultural unit and Footscray Police did send representatives and chalked out a strategy with the Indian media and FISA along with inputs from NGO's.Posters and awareness flyers were given out at every university's orientation sessions along with a talk from the cops.However these dodgy small institutes did not oblige to requests for campaigns.as far as Connex goes they showed up for one meeting and promised to install more sensor lights at all western suburbs stations on the Sydenham and Werribee lines but yet no action has been seen.An inquiry was also initiated by the State education minister which failed to highlight on safety for these students.Probably the end to such attacks lies in the root cause i.e.shutdown these shpfront campuses which solely enroll students for PR requirements.
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mmasand, IMVHO the crux of the problem lies in the fact that no one is serious about solution to such racial attacks and/or physical assault. These attacks are not limited to Melbourne but also quite frequently occurs in Sydney, though not as frequent as Melbourne. Not only vic police but federal police needs to be armed with laws like issuing on the spot fines or even arrest if justified. Involvement of media into such incidents is crucial as it makes mass appeal to whole community, which hardly someone would dare to. But unfortunately, with the nature of crime involved many students go away from reporting such things to police mainly due to no evidence/witness available.

Transit officers in Cityrail or Connex will definitely keep an eye on Indian student exiting from station for ticket evasion but wouldn't bother to do about any racial abuse, I guess. The act itself says the abuse needs to be done in public in a way someone might have heard/seen it.
The Act covers public acts which are:

done, in whole or in part, because of the race, colour, or national or ethnic origin of a person or group AND
reasonably likely in all the circumstances to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate that person or group.
The complainant is responsible for proving that the act was done in public, that it was done because of his or her ethnicity and that it was reasonably likely to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate a reasonable person of that ethnicity.
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