The changes would focus on overhauling of the queueing system that identifies occupations in demand and creates a points system. The immigration minister would have the new legal authority to set a maximum number of visas for a single occupation.
After charging an Indian couple for the brutal murder of Ranjodh Singh, whose body was found half burnt in New South Wales, the Australian police on Friday arrested a 25-year-old man for the murder.A motorist found Singh's badly burnt body off Wilga Road, approximately 20 kilometres south of Griffith in southern NSW on December 29.An autopsy revealed that Singh, 25, who had been bound and had his throat slashed, had been stabbed many times and was set alight while still alive
In fresh incidents of violence against Indians in Australia, four community youths, including three cabbies, were attacked in two separate incidents in Brisbane, a media report said on Thursday.
The Australian authorities arrested a couple, on Thursday, in connection with the killing of an Indian, whose partially burnt body was found dumped by the side of a road in the New South Wales Riverina in December 2009. A 23-year-old man and his 20-year-old wife, who have not been identified, were arrested at two addresses in Sans Souci in Sydney's south.
The Australian government has handed over to India a police dossier of high-profile attacks on Indians over the past year, which reveals that nearly half of the attackers were juveniles. The dossier, prepared by the Victoria police, was handed over in recent weeks, after Foreign Minister Stephen Smith telephoned his Indian counterpart S M Krishna on January 11 to express his condolences over the murder of Indian student Nitin Garg in Yarraville.
The accused had allegedly made comments to the duo before one of the student was pushed to the ground and kicked at about 10.20 pm (local time) last night in central Melbourne.
According to Andy Pitman, co-director of University of NSW climate change research centre and key author of the IPCC's 2001 and 2007 reports, said: "as far as I understand it, there are two paragraphs that have been questioned in a 1600-page document.
Two people, including a teenage boy, have been charged in connection with the robbery and assault of an Indian national in Brisbane, the first attack against the community in Australia's Queensland province this year. The 25-year-old Indian, whose name was not revealed, was using a telephone booth in Macgregor in Brisbane's south on Thursday night when he was attacked and punched on the side of his head and robbed of his wallet.
Two Indians, including a taxi driver, were attacked in separate incidents overnight in Brisbane, a day after Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said that the assaults on Indians in the country were 'regrettable'. A 25-year-old youth was assaulted and robbed while using a phone booth near his home in Macgregor in south Brisbane on Thursday night, police officials were quoted as saying. The youth, whose identity was not disclosed, was punched in the head twice.
Without making an excuse for the recent spate of violence against Indians, Australia has said that the feedback received from the half a million-strong Indian student community has been 'positive'. Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard was quoted by a news report as saying that despite the recent spate of violence, the feedback received from the nearly half a million Indian students was positive towards the country, but that did not excuse the incidents.
Hitting out at Australia's former defence chief Peter Cosgrove, who said it was 'easy to conclude' that some attacks on Indians may have been racially motivated, Victorian premier John Brumby dubbed his speech as 'factually inaccurate' and wide of the mark.However, Brumby, whose state has been under fire for reporting maximum assaults against Indians, declined to elaborate on how Cosgrove's statement was inaccurate.
Australia's top police officials ignored the frequent attacks on overseas students, mostly Indians, even though Prime Minster Kevin Rudd and other politicians promised prompt action against the culprits, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) query.
Australia's former Defence Force chief has stated that the attacks against Indians was a 'major problem' and its nature made it easy to conclude they were racially motivated. General Peter Cosgrove told The Age after his address on Australia day that the number of incidents against Indians seemed "too many to be coincidences". "Attacks recently by groups of people on individuals looks like a profiling approach to people from the sub-continent.
Victoria's top cop said on Wednesday that crime against Indians was a problem which was noticed by police two years ago. Indians are over-represented in robbery statistics and there is a racist element to some attacks, Chief Commissioner Simon Overland said, according to media reports in Melbourne.
In yet another incident, a 25-year-old Indian cabbie was assaulted in Melbourne by his two passengers. Police have asked witnesses to come forward to help them catch a couple who bashed the driver in Melbourne.
India's top envoy in Australia has assured Indians that the government was 'very closely monitoring' their well-being in this country, as she asked them to not allow 'a few bad elements' to sour the otherwise warm Indo-Australian relationship. Indian High Commissioner Sujatha Singh, who traveled to Melbourne, assured the Indian Sikh community that the perpetrators of the incident of arson on a local gurdwara will be brought to justice by the authorities.
Two Australian men from Victoria, arrested for assaulting an Indian taxi driver, will be produced in court on Monday, in an incident that takes to four the number of attacks on Indian cabbies in three days. The incident happened on Friday night when the two men were picked up by a 23-year old Indian taxi driver in Geelong city. Robert Harvey, 25, and Andrew Madden, 24, allegedly attacked the driver, who suffered bruising and swelling to the face and head.
Attacks on Indians in Australia continued unabated with yet another taxi driver being punched by his passengers, an assault described as 'opportunistic' and 'not racially motivated' by the police. In the second such incident in as many days, the 25-year-old taxi driver suffered bruises on his body and swelling on the face after he was roughed up by four male passengers in the Victorian city of Ballarat.
In yet another attack on Indians in Australia, a 24-year-old taxi driver has been allegedly abused and assaulted by a passenger and his vehicle damaged in the Victorian city of Ballarat.
The Indian, a permanent resident, was assaulted on Coogee Beach in Sydney on Monday, authorities said on Tuesday. The New South Wales Police arrested a person in connection with the attack and charged him with assault "occasioning actual bodily harm and affray," they said in a statement.
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