When a group of young teenage girls began racially abusing Kate* on a public bus in Sydney, she decided she had to stand up for herself.
If it had been teenage boys, Kate says, she probably would have sat back and copped the abuse, however unjust. But what harm could a 13-year-old girl do?
I couldn't believe that, at such a young age, they were capable of doing this, stealing other people's property and physically attacking me. 
Now the 30-year-old has changed her mind, after she was kicked forcefully in the stomach and had her purse taken during a horror ride home to Maroubra on a crowded route 397 bus on Saturday evening.
Now she can understand why people don't react or intervene in similar situations.
"They could have had some weapon with them. I have a very different view of a young teenage girls now," she said.
"When I originally stood up for myself I thought, 'They're just young girls', you know? Now I've totally changed my view. They are capable of everything."
Kate, who did not want to be identified, was sitting at the back of the bus when the group of about five girls, thought to be aged between 13 and 17, began racially abusing her about 6.30pm on Saturday, saying: "Asian c---, go back to your own country".
Kate, who moved to Australia from China eight years ago and is an Australian citizen, said she turned around to the girls, who were drinking alcohol, and reacted to their verbal abuse.
"I said, 'Young lady you need to behave yourself'," Kate said.
"I turned back to try to get the driver's attention and they took my wallet. Then I started yelling: 'They stole my wallet, somebody call the police."'
Kate saw her wallet beneath the seat of one of the girls. She crouched down and retrieved it, but as she got up one of the girls kicked her forcefully in the stomach twice.
"At that point, I was beyond stunned. I couldn't believe that, at such a young age, they were capable of doing this, stealing other people's property and physically attacking me," Kate said.
"I still couldn't punch back, I simply couldn't do it."
Unlike in some other recent racist attacks on public transport, the bus driver and other passengers then stepped in.
On Monday, the driver was praised for ejecting the girls, while other passengers on the bus lent verbal  support to the driver's actions.
The girls got off, only to chase the bus and throw rocks at it. They spat in the face of one other passenger who was helping Kate in the wake of the attack.
Kate, who got her purse back, said the attack was captured on CCTV, and she had reported the incident to police. She said the bus driver and the police knew who the girls were.
But given the girls' age, they probably would not face any serious consequences for their actions.
"It's not right, it's not tolerable. They enjoy it, because they know they can get away with it," she said.
"I feel pity for them, because they're at such a young age and life seems already ruined, and I feel like it's society's failure."
The incident is the latest in a string of racist verbal attacks on public transport. On Easter Saturday, a man abused an Asian couple on the 470 bus from Circular Quay to Lilyfield, and a woman who tried to intervene said most passengers ignored what was happening.
In March, a video filmed on a Perth bus showed a woman verbally abusing another woman, who she refers to as Chinese, for speaking in another language.
In February, ABC newsreader Jeremy Fernandez tweeted about being called a "black c---" who should "go back to his country" by a female passenger on a Sydney bus. He was told by the bus driver to move seats but refused to.
In November last year, footage of a racist attack on a French woman on a Melbourne bus went viral after she was called a dog by male passengers, threatened with having her breasts cut off and told to "speak English or die".
*Not her real name.

(16/4/2013 Sydney Morning Herald)

This is the continuation of the preceding story. The root of the problem here is Australia is a racist country. The question we should ask is why do the police and the prosecuting authority fail to lay charges against these scoundrels? The failure to bring charges is not only a dereliction of duty but also a connivance of a crime. Racial rant like this does not end up in any racial related charges because there is almost no such legislation here except one which is proximate to genocide, pardon me for the exaggeration. I write in English for the benefit of those chauvinistic English speakers to learn how to suck egg. These girls can be charged with 1. Disorderly Conduct, 2. Using Foul Language on the Public Bus, 3. Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm./Common Assault, 4. Attempted Theft (of the purse) and 5. Criminal Damage (to the bus). 
If all Australians are going back to where they came from, there will only be the indigenous people and the kangaroos here staying behind. We, of course, being men of letters cannot involve in altercation with scum bags in the society when this kind of confrontation occurs. Forgetting about the racial rant in this case. The acts standing alone amount to several charges I have suggested the police can make arrest and prosecute. Why don't they and why didn't they in the past do so? The answer is simple. They themselves cannot weed out their indoctrinated racial stance at the back of their mind.










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