MuffinMan said:
what help can the federal government give?
Well, for starters, saying something like this:
"Attacking people on the basis of their race, their appearance, their ethnicity, is totally unacceptable and should be repudiated by all Australians irrespective of their own background and their politics," Howard said.
"But I'm not going to put a general tag [of] racism on the Australian community," he said. "I do not accept that there is underlying racism in this country."
Of course, it being reported at home is too much to ask...
More police down there would also be good, but I don't know if it's really doable.
And just to vindicate myself with the neo-Nazi involvement: "There appears to be an element of white supremacists, and they really have no place in mainstream Australian society," said Police Minister Carl Scully.
Both quotes are from the Moscow Times:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/12/13/252.html