Ozzie
Whenever I call home or catch up with friends overseas, the first thing they ask is about the situation in Melbourne. I have not come across any racial incidents in Australia, but I really pity the students here. They do not have cars to travel around and they work part time. Saying that, they would have to use public transport and that too during odd hours. There are some eerie suburbs in melbourne and there you would find druggists, people trying to snatch a dollar or two from you for their cigarette / drugs. I would`nt recommend anyone to go to those kind of places at 1 am in the morning.. definitely not, coz the places would be desserted after 9pm, even if you yell out hard, there is no one for rescue.
What you hear from the govt is this...Indian students are attacked because they are soft targets and all the attacks have been opportunistic. Whatever the motive might be.. opportunistic or racial dont the govt need to make sure it does not happen again. Looks like Indian media is creating a big hype and media coverage is just too much. It is really not helping if the Indian media is seeing everything from a racial angle.
When you look at what the local media says, ozzie govt is more worried about losing multi million dollars (education here is viewed as multi-million dollar industry) as a result of losing indian students coming to study here. An overseas students needs to pay far more than what a local students pay.
Is the Oz govt forced to act only because there is big money involved here ??
