Under pressure to check the attacks on Indians in Australia, Victorian Premier John Brumby met Indian High Commissioner to Australia Sujatha Singh and briefed her on the measures put in place to improve law and order and the safety of foreign students in the state.
Vowing not to tolerate any racial attacks against Indians, Premier John Brumby of the Australian state of Victoria, which has witnessed most of these assaults, said on Sunday that there is "a small and ignorant minority" of people who engage in such "repugnant" actions.
Struggling to end the violent attacks on Indians living in Melbourne, Victoria's premier John Brumby has sought spin legend Shane Warne's advice to deal with the tensions between the Indian community and the native Australians.
Struggling to end the violent attacks on Indians living in Melbourne, Victoria's premier John Brumby has sought spin legend Shane Warne's advice to deal with the tensions between the community and the native Australians.
Air India on Tuesday announced the launch of daily international flights from Melbourne to Delhi from first November this year.
Wipros Australian Development Centre will provide consulting, software development, testing and business process services to domestic and global companies in Australia.
Thousands of Australians, including Victorian Premier John Brumby, on Wednesday treated themselves to Indian cuisine like naan and tandoori chicken as they joined a mass dining event to protest attacks against Indians. Brumby joined a few leading Indian community members like Primus Telecom chief Ravi Bhatia for lunch at Indian restaurant 'Desi Dhaba' in the up-market Flinders street. The mass dining is part of the Vindaloo Against Violence' campaign.
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.
Strongly criticising the Indian media for blowing up the racism issue, Victorian premier John Brumby on Thursday asked people to wait for facts about the assaults before crying 'racism.'
In the wake of a spate of racial attacks against Indians in Australia, the Victorian government has appointed a former football player as the nation's first "respect minister" to tackle problems related to growing racism and alcohol-fuelled violence in the state.
John Brumby, Prime Minister of the state of Victoria in Australia, decided to cancel his scheduled trip to Mumbai after a detailed advisory issued first by the US and then by Israel, which said terrorists are planning attacks in India.
His trip was aimed at stemming criticism after a spate of racist attacks in Melbourne over the past two years and to promote Victoria as a safe place for Indian students and migrants.
Melbourne may not continue to host the Australian Grand Prix after the current contract runs out in 2014, the Premier of the state of Victoria John Brumby said on Wednesday.
In the wake of a racial attack against three Indians in Melbourne, Victorian Premier John Brumby on Wednesday said any violence was "unacceptable" and admitted that the recent incidents have damaged Australia's image in India.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal during a closed door meeting with Victorian Premier John Brumby asked him to share data on attacks and raised issues like accommodation and transport concessions for students.
Indian High Commissioner to Australia has reportedly met the Australian governor-general warning of long-term consequences unless more action was taken to prevent attacks against the Indians and pointed that the Victoria was in "a state of denial".
An Australian opposition leader has criticised the Victoria government for allegedly failing to tackle the racist attacks on Indians saying "this has brought bad name to the state globally".
Victoria Premier John Brumby on Wednesday attacked the Indian media and officials for unbalanced reporting; citing the case of Jaspreet Singh who police say pretended he had been set on fire in an unprovoked attack.
Indian High Commissioner Sujata Singh, who met premier of Victoria John Brumby and top police and educational officials of the province, said there is a 'racist element in some of the attacks' but many of them were 'opportunistic'.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Victorian Premier John Brumby have urged the Indian community to remain calm and not link three-year-old Gurshan Singh's death to attacks on Indian students and taxi drivers in Melbourne.Gurshan's body was found dumped by the side of a road in a Melbourne suburb, six hours after he disappeared from a relative's home in Lalor on Thursday.
Toronto FC's Justin Morrow, executive director of the Black Players for Change organization, said MLS players wanted to add their voices to the movement.
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