Trouble in paradise

I have been living in Sydney , Australia with my daughter, for the last 3 months . My wife and I have been here to help our daughter out with her second baby born here in March 09. Her first baby too was born here in in 2007. Gopakumar, my daughter's husband has been living here in Sydney for over 10 years. Like all professionally qualified people he has had his fair share of opportunities in the insurance and banking industry. His performance has been recognised and he has risen satisfactorily to head teams of IT professionals from a whole range of European and Asian countries. He could well be living the Professionals' dream in Australia . The Indian professionals I have met here live well close to up market areas with access to beautiful parks and sport centres , world class medical facilities etc etc . I can speak for Sydney where the city has been developed with a great deal of imagination and has some of the best infrastructure in terms of housing , medical facilities roads and pavements and recreation qualifying the city to be among the mot livable in the world.
All this has now come under the scanner follwing the attacks on Indian students during the last 2/3 months .
Like in all civil societies , the world over , Australia has its share of bad eggs !!. There have been reports of bikey gangs (all white) fighting it out with guns and knves even in public places like airports; of car jackings , muggings, drug related violence etc . These reports are daily fare in local newspaper websites. Considering the growing Indian population in Sydney and Melbourne and their importance in the social pecking order, I suppose it was only a question of time before Indians became caught up in the vortex of violent incidents . Some of these involve Indians clashing with other nationalities like Lebanese .This is not to downplay the incidents . It is right to protest and to try to keep the issue in the forefront of law and order issues for the Govt to tackle . Fortunately the Govt does seem to show some desire to sort it out .
Aussies are an aggresive lot and their way of assessing you is to push you . once you stand up to the test you are accepted and all is fine .!!
There is fair amount of support for Indian students in the media ..
Lets not forget , we too live in glass houses.!!