Two more Indians assaulted in Sydney

September 15th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Three Indians were brutally attacked in a suburb of this Australian city by a group of youths who allegedly made racist remarks, a media report said Tuesday. Omkar Singh, a relative of the victims, told IBN news channel Tuesday that the attack took place when his relatives were playing pool in Epping.

July 31st, 2009 SYDNEY - Following the closure of a Sydney college where many Indians were studying, the Australian government has assured foreign students that they will be granted "a comparable place to complete their course" or a refund in fees. Financial troubles forced the Sterling College here to suddenly close down, jeopardising the futures of more than 500 people, including many Indians.

July 29th, 2009 SYDNEY - An Indian journalist, who was working undercover in Australia to expose an education and migration scam and was assaulted over the weekend, has said her attacker "looked like an Indian person". The reporter, a 28-year-old long-time resident of Australia, told The Australian Wednesday: "My attacker looked like an Indian person and I was threatened in Hindi." She was attacked in an inner-city Sydney street Saturday afternoon when a man wearing a turban came at her with an "almighty elbow to the right shoulder", the report said.

July 28th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has said the government "won't tolerate" any education and migration scam affecting foreign students, after such a scam was exposed by an undercover Indian reporter who was assaulted over the weekend. Speaking from Singapore on the ABC's Australia Network, Smith said: "Of course it's very concerning...

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 21st, 2009 SYDNEY - India's Consul General Amit Dasgupta feels it's not proper to call Indian students in Australia "soft targets," a term used by the police to describe recent attacks against them over the last two months. "I have problem with term soft targets because I think it is a term which one can use to almost say that the way you behave becomes a justification for attracting attacks.

June 30th, 2009 SYDNEY - The disconnect between the "established Indian order" and students was a matter of concern, says a prominent Australian parliamentarian who blames a "cocktail of issues" for the recent attacks on Indian students in his country. Basically it is a cocktail of issues that are affecting Indian students.

June 28th, 2009 SYDNEY - In a fresh attack, two Indian students were assaulted with a beer bottle in Sydney. Two teenagers have been arrested for the attack.

June 23rd, 2009 MELBOURNE - In what appears to be another racist attack against Indians in Australia, a student from Hyderabad was assaulted while coming out of a hair salon. Mir Raza Ali Khan, who has been hospitalised after the attack Monday, says it was a racist attack because his money was left untouched.

June 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.

June 11th, 2009 SYDNEY - Police Superintendent of the Parramatta Local Command on the outskirts of Sydney, Robert Redfern, has said Indians were under attack because they were seen as "soft targets" amongst petty thieves. But NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research director Don Weatherburn said police did not collect information on ethnicity of attackers or victims in assault crimes.

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.

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 30th, 2009 SYDNEY - There have been at least 20 incidents of "curry bashing" in Sydney in the past month, but most attacks on Indian students went unreported out of fear, a community leader has revealed. Yadu Singh, a cardiologist, said violent attacks against Indian people are on the rise in Sydney.

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.