Australia Racism

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  'Australia Doesn't Want Indian Migrants': Neo-Nazi Activist's Racist Outburst

  An Australian extremist's anti-India outburst has triggered widespread outrage on social media.

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  Australian Woman Suspended Over Racist Email To Indian Tennant: Report

  A real estate agent in Australia has been suspended for sending a former Indian tenant a racist email in which she criticised the cleanliness habits of Indians and hoped that their influx would not turn the country into "the filth that is India".

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  Aboriginal Australians Meet At Sacred Uluru To Discuss First Chance Of Recognition

  There are about 700,000 Aborigines in a population of 23 million in Australia, but they suffer disproportionately high rates of suicide, alcohol abuse, domestic violence and imprisonment. Constitutional recognition of Aborigines is a complex issue in a country which previously administered its indigenous people under flora and fauna laws.

• 'I knew you did it': Mother of teen who killed Nitin Garg

  An Australian teenager pleaded guilty on Wednesday to fatally stabbing an Indian student in Melbourne. He faces a sentence of up to life in prison for the attack that sparked widespread outrage across India.The 16-year-old, whose identity was suppressed by the court because he is a minor, pleaded guilty in Victorian Supreme Court to the murder and ...

• Australian teen pleads guilty in Indian student death

  An Australian teenager pleaded guilty on Wednesday to fatally stabbing an Indian student in Melbourne. He faces a sentence of up to life in prison for the attack that sparked widespread outrage across India.The 16-year-old, whose identity was suppressed by the court because he is a minor, pleaded guilty in Victorian Supreme Court to the murder and ...

• Indian student's body found in suitcase in Australia

  The body of a 24-year-old Indian-origin student, who was murdered after being sexually assaulted, was found stuffed in a suitcase in a park in Sydney, a media report said Monday.Police said the "predator" had waited until her housemate was away to sexually assault and kill her.Tosha Thakkar's body was found Friday morning in a canal behind the Mead...

• Australia sacks four police officers for racist emails

  Four police officers in Australia have been dismissed while seven officers have been fined for circulating racist emails, including one that contained footage of a man being electrocuted while travelling on a train in India. Australia's envoy to India has welcomed the action.The four Victoria Police officers were dismissed following disciplinary he...

• Australia police in racist e-mail sting

  Police officers in Victoria in Australia have been caught joking about a video which shows an Indian passenger on the roof of a train getting electrocuted as he touches the high-tension wires.In a sting conducted by Australian newspaper the Herald Sun, police officers circulated this gory video and joked that it could be a way to fix Melbourne's In...

• Australian cops alert as Facebook chatter hints racial brawl

  Police intensified patrolling in this Australian city following chatter on social network site Facebook about possible racial violence involving teenagers.Facebook is buzzing with talk that a wild brawl involving gangs of high-school students and up to 100 onlookers on Thursday was only the precursor to a larger fight. The website claimed the viole...

• Indian student leader to contest Oz polls

  Gautam Gupta, who is a student leader in Melbourne and a household name among the Indian community in Australia, is getting into the big league. He is all set to fight the Australian elections that are less than a month away.Gautam, who is the founder of Federation of Indian Students of Australia (FISA), became the voice against attacks on Indian s...

• Australian opposition vows to cut immigrants to half

  Ahead of next month's polls,Australia's main opposition party today vowed to massively cut the annual migrants intake from 300,000 to 170,000, targeting even the foreign students' category which is popular among Indians, in a bid to contain a population explosion in future."What we are planning to do is to get our immigration levels to those which ...

• Indian student injured in Oz race attack unable to eat, speak

  An Indian student, who was hospitalised with multiple jaw fractures after being brutally beaten up by a group of six youths here, will not be able to eat for up to five weeks and also cannot talk properly, according to one of his friends.24-year-old Bharat Thapar, who was assaulted on Monday night in South Oakleigh, is recuperating in a hospital wi...

• In Australia, Indian student attacked so badly, he can't speak

  A young Indian student has been beaten so badly in Melbourne that he has critical face and mouth injuries. Doctors who are operating on him on Tuesday afternoon say he may not be able to speak or even open his mouth for the next few weeks.Bharat Thapar has just finished his studies at a Melbourne college.  He moved to Australia three years ago...

• Oz: Indian race attack victim says he has lost faith in system

  A seven-month long battle for justice has ended in disappointment for an Indian race attack victim in Sydney. The 28-year-old Indian, who has been living in Australia for 11 years, was racially abused and attacked by a group of six Australia-born boys and girls on Sydney's popular Coogee beach on January 11 this year.  The police arrived on th...

• Indian students' cars torched in Australia

  A group of international students, mostly Indians, in the Australian city of Adelaide are living in constant fear after a gang fire-bombed three of their cars on Tuesday. It is the latest incident in a series of continuing attacks that have damaged 12 cars in three months.The students, who live in a block of 13 South Australian Student Housing Asso...