Not coming to Australia now :(

For that matter, it is extremely hard to gauge an accurate national response to anything, if it's not some established homogeneous group. If were talking about say, reactions to racism in Australia by Australians, what exactly do we mean by "Australian"? It could mean an established Anglo-Australian from way back, it could mean a post-war immigrant like me, it could mean any number of recent arrivals, right down to new Indian-Australians in 2009. So many of us Australians are at different stages of "integration" with the country we live in. It could be argued that more recent arrivals are expressing the views of their country of origin.

I still think there's a lot of deeply embedded racism in the multi-generation Anglo population, though.

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I still think there's a lot of deeply embedded racism in the multi-generation Anglo population, though.

No argument with that.
But they're a dying, fast becoming outnumbered breed.

In fact, the American experience shows that they have enriched our nation through their hard work, and the talents they have deployed in our society and economy

Police Association secretary Greg Davies says it is highly offensive to suggest police are not properly investigating the murder.

"To say that our detectives are going slow on this, or for some reason trying to protect somebody, is incredibly offensive and wrong," he said.

"It's based on nothing but obviously a slow news day in Delhi.

"The identity of the offender from the homicide in Footscray isn't even known at this stage, so we don't even know what nationality the offender is.

"To say it's a race-based crime is not only premature, but stupid." ...<cont>

In 2007, according to India's National Crime Records Bureau, 32,318 people were murdered in India. Another 3644 were victims of ''culpable homicide'', roughly equating to manslaughter. In a category of its own, 8093 brides or their relatives were killed in ''dowry deaths'' - murdered by greedy grooms and in-laws angry over the amount of dowry paid by the bride's family. And there were a further 27,401 attempted murders.

By contrast, in 2007, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reports, 255 people were murdered in Australia. Another 28 were victims of manslaughter, and 246 survived attempted murders. No dowry deaths were recorded.

India, of course, is a very big country. But the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that relative to population, its homicide rate is more than twice that of Australia. It is a country in which violent crime is commonplace - so commonplace that every day more than 100 Indians are murdered by other Indians, yet their TV news channels treat this as humdrum unless it involves some celebrity or unusual features.
Indian student murder furore.

Yet when an Indian is murdered overseas, these news channels whip themselves and their viewers into a froth of indignation at the country concerned. How can this happen?, they thunder. How can any civilised nation fail to protect its residents? What kind of racist country is this?

How does this happen? Well, it happens because human beings are imperfect creatures. They can be selfish, they can be hateful, they can enjoy hurting, even killing, other humans. It happens here, it happens in India, it happens everywhere ...<cont>

.....The area was chosen by police to test their controversial new powers as it has a history of knife crime.

There had been plenty of publicity about the area being targeted, and the operation was planned before Mr Garg’s death.
By law there must be notification in the media of an area selected a week before a blitz.

The new laws allow police to search in a designated area without a warrant.

Mr Walshe deflected criticism that publicising a targeted area for up to a week before the operation took the sting out of it.

"History tells me that regardless of what you publicise, people who have a tendency to carry weapons will still carry them and take their chances," he said.

"People who engage in this sort of activity will engage in it, regardless of any prior notification we give them.

He was not wrong. Police found seven people carrying 12 weapons, including knives, a machete and a knuckleduster, and another person was found in possession of drugs during the three-hour blitz. ....