Man of `Indian appearance’ stabbed in Melbourne

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June 3rd, 2009 TOKYO - An Australian working in Japan has said that he is prepared to pay the airfare from India to Australia for the parents of a student who was critically injured when stabbed with a screwdriver at a party in Melbourne last month. Matthew Patrick, who works in banking in Tokyo, said this gesture should be seen as an expression of goodwill that was needed to mend the harm done on Indian students so far.

June 1st, 2009 SYDNEY - Indian students in Australia should have their own ombudsman to whom they can go in times of trouble and the universities that admit them should arrange their accommodation for the first six months, says a committee formed after a spate of attacks on Indian students here and in Melbourne. Asserting that "Australia is not a racist country", committee coordinator Yadu Singh held: "Most of the attacks are what we call `opportunistic attacks' and due to the impression of the criminal elements about our students being the easy target for various reasons".

June 1st, 2009 SYDNEY - Authorities in various Australian universities should arrange housing Indian students in safe areas, at least for the first six months, an expat group formed in the wake of a spate of attacks on Indian students here and in Melbourne said Monday. Yadu Singh, coordinator of the newly formed Community Committee on Indian Students' Issues, also asked the students to have health and emergency insurance.

May 31st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Thousands of Indian students gathered Sunday outside the Victorian parliament here to protest the spate of attacks on them in Australia. They shouted slogans against the Australian government and the police for not being able to protect them from the recent attacks.

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 31st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has termed the attacks on Indian students a "problem" and assured that the government would do everything to prevent further assaults. "We have a particular current problem with Indian students," Smith told Network Ten.

May 29th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Indian students in this Australian city are deeply concerned over the spate of attacks that has left one of them battling for life while another recuperates from a stab injury. The friends and acquaintances of Sravan Kumar Theerthala, who was attacked with a screwdriver over the weekend, expressed their concern outside The Royal Melbourne Hospital where he is admitted.

May 29th, 2009 MELBOURNE - An Indian student sustained burn injuries after a petrol bomb was thrown into his apartment in Sydney, said an Indian community leader. This incident took the number of such assaults in Australia to four in the past three weeks.

May 29th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The attacks on Indian students in this Australian city were not racially motivated, an official said Friday, adding "we think they are vulnerable, we don't think it's racial". Deputy Commissioner Kieran Walshe said there was no indication that a rise in assaults and robberies against Indian students in Melbourne's west was due to "race hate".

May 29th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Violence against Victoria's Indian community is "completely unacceptable and should not be tolerated", Premier of Australia's Victoria state John Brumby said Friday after discussing the spate of attacks on Indian students with the High Commissioner of India. Brumby met High Commissioner Sujatha Singh and Consul General of India Anita Nayar to discuss safety and security of the Indian community in Victoria, the province of which Melbourne is the capital.

May 29th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The attacks on international students has been going on "without any government intervention", an opposition leader in Australia's Victoria state said Friday in reference to the assault on Indian students, adding "sadly, the issue is not new". Opposition leader Ted Baillieu said the assaults on students had been going on for three years, "without any government intervention", The Herald Sun reported.

May 29th, 2009 MELBOURNE - "Our students feel that the attacks on some of them have been motivated racially," High Commissioner of India Sujatha Singh has said, though premier of Australia's Victoria state John Brumby Friday said violence against the Indian community is "completely unacceptable and should not be tolerated". Sujatha Singh told reporters: "I do not think that Australia is a racist society.

May 29th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Five teenagers have been charged for two separate attacks on Indian students in this Australian city, as an official held the assaults were not racially motivated. One teenager was charged with attempted murder over the attack with a screwdriver on 25-year-old Sravan Kumar Theerthala who is battling for his life, while four others were charged with brutally beating up Sourabh Sharma, 21, on a train.

May 28th, 2009 MELBOURNE - An Indian student, who was robbed and stabbed in this Australian city, had pleaded with his attackers who just laughed at him, a media report said. Baljinder Singh had left a railway station Monday when two men carrying weapons approached him and demanded money.