Australia moots safe housing, transport for Indian studentsSeptember 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.
Another Indian student bashed, racially abused in MelbourneJune 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.
Former Oz-Indian victim calls recent incidents 'street violence' not 'racial attacks'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.
Racism exists in Australia: Oz officialJune 14th, 2009 MELBOURNE - With attacks on Indian students continuing in Australia, Race Discrimination Commissioner Tom Calma believes there is a case to give a racist tag to them. Calma admitted that racism existed in Australia, but said the whole country should not be blamed for it.
Another Indian student attacked in OzJune 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - In yet another attack on Indians in Australia, a 22-year-old student was allegedly assaulted by a teenager in Adelaide's busy Rundle Mall. According to the police, the attack took place on Thursday.
Australia safest place in the world for students: Rudd (Lead)June 11th, 2009 SYDNEY - In the face of Indians here alleging racial attacks, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Wednesday asserted that Australia is one of the "safest places in the world" for foreign students. He also warned against revenge attacks after reports of vigilante-like groups being formed in Melbourne and Sydney.
Australia one of safest countries in world for students: RuddJune 10th, 2009 CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has described his country as one of the safest places for students and warned that vigilante action in response to attacks against foreign students, will not be tolerated. "It's unacceptable for anyone to commit an act of violence against any student of any ethnicity anywhere in Australia," Rudd told Fairfax Radio.
Another attack on Indian student in AustraliaJune 8th, 2009 SYDNEY - A 23-year-old Indian student was found unconscious and bleeding after being attacked here in Australia, making him the eleventh target in the past month in a wave of alleged racial attacks, a media report said Monday. The Age newspaper reported Kamal Jit was attacked while walking home from St.
Indian student's car torched in AustraliaJune 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.
Indian student claims drug addicts torched his car in MelbourneJune 7th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A car belonging to an Indian student was torched in Melbourne on Saturday night, but the police ruled out any racial motive behind the incident. According to 22-year-old Vikrant Rajesh Ratan, along with his car, two other cars, also belonging to Indians, were damaged.
Indian students could move to New Zealand if racial attacks continue in AustraliaJune 3rd, 2009 WELLINGTON - Indian students based in Australia may opt to go to neighbouring New Zealand if the racially motivated attacks Down Under don't stop. Education New Zealand chief executive Robert Stevens said he had been in touch with the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise office in India yesterday, urging the office to market New Zealand and Australia as "totally different societies".
Attacks overblown as racist, says India's first student to OzJune 2nd, 2009 TORONTO - The recent attacks on Indian students have been overblown as racist, says the papa of the Indian student community in Australia. Eighty-two-year-old Gurcharn Sidhu, who in 1951 was one of independent India's first students to come here under the Colombo Plan, says these attacks are not "overly blatant acts of racism" by Australians.
Thousands protest attacks on Indians in Australia (Lead)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.
Indian students take out peace rally in Australia against racist attacksMay 31st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Hundreds of Indian students in Australia have embarked on a peace rally aimed at curbing racist violence. The march comes in response to a recent spate of violent attacks on Indian students.
India calls Australian envoy over attacks on Indian studentsMay 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.
Loading ...