Australian cop admits of some attacks on Indians being racial

September 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - John Brumby, the premier of Australian state of Victoria, Friday proposed to give separate transportation and safe housing for Indian students studying in Australia. Union Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi, after a meeting with a nine-member delegation led by Brumby, said: "It is a proposal by the Australian government.

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Government on Wednesday called on the Australian Government to take stern action against the perpetrators of alleged racial assaults on Indians in Melbourne, Victoria. External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said in a statement that the matter of the recurring attacks on Indians in Australia had been taken up with Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith by Indian High Commissioner Sujatha Singh.

July 27th, 2009 SYDNEY - Police Monday raided the Sydney office of a migration agent they believe is exploiting Indians who come to study in Australia. The raid followed claims on national television that a young Indian reporter posing as a student to expose scams had been assaulted in Sydney.

July 15th, 2009 SYDNEY - Thirty-six international students, including some Indians, have been taken into immigration confinement for allegedly breaching study visa conditions in Australia. Most of the student visa holders being held are from China, but others come from Pakistan and India, The Australian reports.

June 28th, 2009 SYDNEY - Two Australian teenagers in Central Sydney reportedly attacked two Indians late on Saturday night. The attack took place on Bathurst Street.

June 15th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Another Indian student has been bashed and racially abused, this time in Melbourne's east. According to a report in The Age, Sunny Bajaj, 20, said he was taunted and punched by two men as he was about to get into his car in Boronia on Friday night.

June 14th, 2009 Melbourne, June 14 (ANI): While the attacks on the Indian students continue unabated in Australia, some Indians believe that the sporadic attack incidents have nothing to do with racism. Former Australian Medical Association president Mukesh Haikerwal, who himself was brutally smashed last year, said that the attacks were not related to issues of racism, but were actually 'street violence.' "I don't believe Australia is more racist than any other country and calling something a racial attack doesn't disguise the fact that all these things are wrong," The Age quoted Haikerwal, as saying.

June 13th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australia's image in India has been damaged after attacks on Indian students, Canberra's envoy to New Delhi John McCarthy has said, adding that "India's voracious 24-hour cable news channels helped stoke the wave of fear and outrage among Indians in both countries". "It's done damage.

June 11th, 2009 VANCOUVER - Four white Canadians were Tuesday charged with a racial assault on a group of Indians at Langley on the outskirts of Vancouver. According to police, the six Indian-origin men were playing tennis at the weekend when the four suspects approached them and started shouting "racially based expletives.'' The assailants, who included three young men and a woman, went on to pull fence boards even as they continued shouting racial "obscenities and threats.'' Police said: "The suspects attempted to enter the tennis court which was now barricaded by the tennis players.

June 7th, 2009 MELBOURNE - In another attack on Indians in Australia, a car belonging to an Indian student was torched in Melbourne Saturday night by suspected drug addicts. While the police have ruled out a racial motive, the student has claimed it was a racial attack.

June 2nd, 2009 SYDNEY - Indian nationals living in Australia have expressed deep concern over the manner in which the Indian media has covered the recent Australian assaults on students and many consider this reporting "irresponsible" This comes as the Indian media is doing exclusive coverage of the Australian attacks and has been extensively rebuking the country for being a racist. "There is a problem with Indian media and Indian leadership - they can't assess a situation in a rational way.

June 1st, 2009 LONDON - Indian students at Oxford University Monday joined in the growing protests over racist attacks on their counterparts in Australia, saying they are baffled by the failure of Australian authorities to take stern measures. Indian students at the University of Oxford strongly deplore the violent attacks on students in Australia.

May 31st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Thousands of Indian and Australian students gathered outside the Victorian parliament Sunday to protest a string of attacks on Indians in Australia that many say are racially motivated. The students, including many from other Asian countries, shouted slogans against the Australian government and the police for failing to protect the Indian students.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI/MELBOURNE - The Indian external affairs ministry Friday called Australian High Commissioner John McCarthy and conveyed its concerns over the allegedly racist attacks on Indian students in Melbourne, the second largest city of Australia. N. Ravi, secretary (east) in the ministry, met the Australian envoy and sought assurance about the safety of Indian students in Australia.

May 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The Australian and Victorian governments have decided to open a help line to assist Indian students who are victims of crime. The help line will begin operating from Friday amid mounting alarm over violent racist attacks in Melbourne's western suburbs, reports The Age.