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xohmyx said:Hello,
As an australian i kind of feel the need to step in here for my country and just kind of defend its honor just a tad.
Firstly Ivan Milat was a proper A-Grade psycho weirdo-nutjob!!! that bloke was off the friggin chain!! he was completely insane and crazy however Not everyone in australia is like that so please do not let the one psycho nutjob tarnish the entire reputation of the country.
Its not like the moment a visitor steps foot in australia the chances of them being kidnapped/murdered within a day rises 100%! That was a freak inccident and australia is actually a very SAFE country, millions of people come here because its such a great place to be and the crime rate for what its worth is rather low.
I mean like any country yeah sure we have issues and its probably definetly best not to wander the outback by yourself and its always a bad idea to hitchike with strangers, but you make it sound like a rather horrible place and its really not, its quite awesome prehaps you should visit one day and see for yourself!
I am sorry if you took offense to my post but I am Australian and know the reality of living there so please do not call it a very SAFE country when it is not . Do you remember the Hoddle Street Massacre, Queen Street Massacre, Strathfield Massacre, Bundaberg massacre and the most notorious of all the Port Arthur Massacre which claimed nearly 40 lives. I actually remember the Strathfield Masscre as my family live in this beautiful neighbourhood and it destroyed the community for many years .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strathfield_massacre
There are more violent incidents resulting in death per capita in Australia against tourists than in Argentina .
Your above post does not reflect the truth and deaths by visitors to Argentina is amongst the lowest in the world .
In Australia there have been numerous cases of backpackers being killed from horrible incidents including all states from Bundaberg Queesland to Port Arthur Tasmania and unfortunately many of the victims were tourists.
This article was from the Guardian 2003
Spectacular headlines such as Britons who see Australia and die, do little to encourage tourism. This article quoted official Australian figures and explained that nearly 400 tourists a year (0.01%) die visiting Australia. While most of the deaths are attributed to accidents and health-related issues, the article stated that during the review period, 22 persons died from an unlawful assault or, in other words, were murdered (Guardian 2003). The report mentioned the murder of Peter Falconio and the Childers backpackers fire that claimed 15 lives, but did not clarify that one incident claimed almost 70 percent of the victims of unlawful killings.
In 2004, the British press reporting the trial of murdered British backpacker Caroline Stuttle drew links to another unrelated incident which took the lives of seven British tourists two years earlier. Although the cases were unrelated, were two years apart, and some one million tourists had visited Australia unharmed in the meantime, the British media nonetheless chose to draw a tenuous geographical link to the two incidents (Fickling 2004): ‘Bundaburg is 30 miles east of Childers, where an itinerant fruit picker, Robert Long, killed 15 people, including seven Britons…in 2000’.
Argentinas rate of serious crimes that result in deaths of tourists is amongst the lowest of the world and is lower per capita than the USA, Australia, and most countries of South America. This is a fact as per statistics .
Argentinas crime rate including robberies are 5 times higher than Australia .
