Melbourne: Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu on condemned as "sickening" an alleged racial attack on two young Indian women on a local bus in Australia, while denouncing the idea of racism as "contemptible" and "disgraceful". In an incident that reportedly happened on December 12, a woman of solid built who has been described as "very manly" slapped the Indian women while racially abusing them after getting off a bus in Melbourne, the police has said.
The premier said "the reports of two women being attacked on a bus due to their cultural background is sickening, the overwhelming number of Victorians find racism disgraceful". "Racism is contemptible, disgraceful, cowardly and illegal. Victorians are proud to be the multicultural centre of Australia and anything that looks to diminish our multiculturalism needs to be challenged," Baillieu said in a statement released by his office.
He said his government has done more than any other government in the past to welcome members of the Indian community. "We stand shoulder to shoulder with Victoria's Indian community," he said. According to local police, the aggressor woman had launched her attack when one of the sisters accidentally knocked her with a handbag.
The sister whose bag had bumped the larger woman had tried to apologise, but the aggressive woman shouted abuse and told the sisters to "go back to your own country". Other things were said but Senior Sergeant Bills did not specify what they were....
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12:34 PM, Dec 21, 2012
Melbourne: An Australian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal of the Melbourne teenager who was sentenced to 13 years in jail for killing Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which outraged public opinion in India and put the bilateral relations under stress. The teenager, who was 15-year-old at the time of incident in 2010, had appealed claiming the sentence was 'manifestly excessive', given his extreme youth, guilty plea and unintentional...
11:10 AM, Apr 17, 2012
London: In what is being termed as a racial attack, a woman of Asian origin was beaten up and her three daughters ill-treated by three people who tried to steal a packet of crisps from her shop in Britain. Saly Chowdhury was left with a black eye and facial injuries after being bashed up by two men and a woman at her shop, the Hendon Valley Stores, in Sunderland, the...
12:42 AM, Mar 16, 2012
London: Britain is calm after no major incidents of rioting were reported since Wednesday night, mainly due to heavy police deployment and the vigil mounted by local communities. The country is now counting its losses with the economic loss from four days of rioting, looting and arson pegged at about 100 million. Analysts add that the cost to Britain's reputation and its lucrative tourist trade in the run-up to the...
10:24 AM, Aug 11, 2011
Melbourne: A 16-year-old boy on Wednesday pleaded guilty to killing Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which threatened Australia's ties with India. The teenager, whose identity has not been revealed, appeared in Supreme court where he pleaded guilty to one count of murder and one count of attempted armed robbery in the killing of Garg. The 21-year-old Garg, who migrated from Punjab, was fatally stabbed in the abdomen by assailants...
11:22 AM, Apr 20, 2011
Melbourne: An Indian-origin model has accused an Australian modelling agency of racial discrimination as she is not a Caucasian, media in Melbourne reported. According to a report in the local daily 'WA Today', 25-year-old model Kema Rajandran was told by a Parth-based modelling agency that her work chances were "limited" in the country because she was not Caucasian. After living and working as a model in the UK for two...
08:21 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Melbourne: Despite Australia's all round efforts to further develop its ties with India, the issue of racism dominated their relations in 2010 following the murder of an Indian student and revelation of racist emails circulated by Victorian police. Arrival of 100,000 Indian students in Australia in the past five years was the biggest thing to happen to Australia and India relations since the 1790s. But the year also saw a...
12:58 PM, Dec 27, 2010
Melbourne: It's been over a year since the attacks against Indians in Australia made headlines. Since then, the Australian government changed immigration laws, increased the police force, and started international student support groups. They have been successful in decreasing the number of attacks, but let's find out what happened to the earlier victims. Kanan was one of the first victims of violence against Indians in Australia way in March 2008....
02:11 PM, Dec 26, 2010
Melbourne: A 16-year-old Australian boy on Friday pleaded guilty in a children's court for his involvement in the stabbing of Indian student Nitin Garg, who died earlier this year, in a case that shocked Indians. The teenager has been charged with committing a robbery by stealing Garg's mobile phone and making a false statement to police in which he denied that his friend had killed the Indian. The young boy...
01:14 PM, Oct 22, 2010
26-year-old, Shravan Kumar, who was battling for life after a brutal racial attack in May 2009 in Australia, has finally returned to his home. ...
08:49 AM, Jul 30, 2010
This is the first time that charges of this nature have been put before the courts. ...
10:25 AM, Jul 28, 2010
Lucky Singh, was hunted before being robbed, bashed and left unconscious at a telephone booth in Melbourne. ...
07:44 AM, Jul 15, 2010
The report says that in 45 per cent of racial attacks, the victims are expatriate Indians. ...
10:56 AM, Jul 02, 2010
The victims of attacks are overwhelmingly Asian (45 pc, Black (18 pc), and migrant workers (10 pc). ...
12:29 PM, Jul 01, 2010
The teenagers who viciously attacked the Indian in March 2008 have not even been locked up. ...
01:29 PM, Jun 30, 2010
Detectives arrested and charged another teenager from Yarraville suburb over the stabbing of Nitin Garg. ...
11:01 AM, Jun 18, 2010
The 15-year-old accused is expected to face a Children's Court later on Thursday. ...
10:53 AM, Jun 17, 2010
This will be Smith's third visit as foreign minister since 2007. ...
08:59 AM, Mar 02, 2010
Govt to arrange accommodation for of Indian journalists team touring Down Under. ...
08:29 AM, Feb 23, 2010
The violence has soured relations between India and Australia. ...
05:38 PM, Feb 09, 2010
