Two students were injured outside a hotel in Sydney last week in what appeared to be a petty street crime, apart from a separate incident surfacing from Adelaide.
New South Wales Police official Brian Wyver said the two men in Sydney suffered minor injuries in a scuffle outside a hotel in Wollongong on Friday.
"When the police arrived they couldn't locate anyone there... They later found that two people had been taken to Wollongong Hospital by a friend," Wyver was quoted as saying by the 'Herald Sun'.
"They attended the hospital and there appears there has been some sort of fight outside the hotel. They didn't want any action in relation to that fight, they weren't badly injured so police have taken a report," he said.
In another case, an Indian student was attacked in Adelaide after a group of four drunken localites attacked him. The events came as Immigration Minister Chris Evans prepared to leave for New Delhi to reassure Indians of their safety Down Under.
Evans said Australia remains a safe destination for students and welcomed Indians to work and study in the country.
Evans, who will meet Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi and other officials during his visit, said the government wanted to counter negative publicity on the sub-continent about the recent wave of attacks against Indian students in Australian cities.
"There's been a lot of concern inside India and there's been, I think, some fairly hysterical reporting of what's occurred," he said.
"Part of what I intend to do on this visit is to try and reassure Indians that we're a safe place to study, that we're a multicultural society and we don't have racist attitudes to people," he told Sky News.
He said so far there has been no evidence of a decline in Indian student applications and recent figures have shown that the demand from students in India has continued to be strong and, in fact, grew a little bit in June.
Evans trip follows a visit by a delegation of police and officials to Indian cities earlier this month delivering similar safety assurances.
