Honesty on attacks on Indians will help both sides

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Honesty on attacks on Indians will help both sides
PRADEEP TANEJA
February 6, 2010 Comments 34


"How is the situation in Melbourne?" asked the policeman who frisked me at Delhi's international airport last weekend as I was leaving India after a holiday there. The attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and other Australian cities have, naturally, concerned the families and friends of Indians living in Australia. But even those with no connection to Australia are keenly following the reports of these attacks as became evident during my stay there. Almost everyone I met wanted to know what was going on in Melbourne. They wanted to find out if it was safe for Indians in Australia.

Such concern among ordinary Indians was bound to affect the Indian government's position on this issue. Despite public outrage and intense media interest in the story, the Indian government had initially been cautious in its reaction. It welcomed visits by senior federal and state leaders and officials from Australia to explain the situation and sent its own foreign minister, S. M. Krishna, to Australia on a fact-finding mission. During his visit late last year, Mr Krishna made a genuine effort to understand the situation as he spoke to members of the Indian community, student representatives and senior government leaders.

The Indian government's stance on the issue has, however, hardened in the past couple of months.

Instead of asking Australian authorities to take appropriate measures to prevent such attacks and to ensure the security of Indian students, it is calling for such attacks to cease. Mr Krishna himself has taken a much tougher line in the past few days, as has been widely reported in the Australian media. This reflects rising domestic pressure for India to show it cares about its citizens in foreign lands even as opposition politicians in the country try to extract maximum political mileage.

More importantly, the toughening of its stance over these attacks reflects the emergence of a self-confident India that will not allow its citizens to be treated unfairly.

Indian students coming to Australia in search of permanent residency are not members of the 27 per cent of the population who, according to Indian government figures, still live below the poverty line. They are, it is claimed, members of a growing middle class and part of a new breed of Indians proud of their country's economic success and ready to seize opportunities for economic advancement wherever they might arise in the world.

There is no doubt that the linkage between study in Australia and permanent residency offered by the immigration policies of the Australian government has attracted tens of thousands of young Indians to try their luck there. They have spent thousands of dollars to enrol in courses that offer the prospect of permanent residency even though they have no desire to spend the rest of their lives working as barbers or cooks in Australia - both jobs that are on the occupations-in-demand list.

They enrol in courses such as hairdressing or cookery because they have been told by education and immigration agents that they are almost guaranteed permanent residency once they have completed the course.

The attacks on Indians in Australia have been widely portrayed as racist by sections of the Indian media.

It is now also accepted by several prominent Australians that at least some of these attacks might have involved racial targeting. However, the early attempts by senior members of the Australian government to rule out racism as a factor in these attacks infuriated many Indians. Many there wondered how racism could be dismissed without those responsible for these attacks being arrested and questioned.

Most Indians visiting Australia accept that it is not a racist country and that its laws and legal institutions provide protection from racial discrimination. They also accept that sometimes Indians will become victims of crime there.

But blanket denials by government leaders that these attacks might have been racially motivated have served to undermine what the two governments have rightly tried to build as a ''strategic partnership''.

The two nations have a lot in common besides the three Cs of cricket, curry and colonial heritage. As both are thriving and sometimes raucous democracies, the relationship is bound to experience occasional turbulence.

But an honest appraisal of the situation and effective action in dealing with racially motivated violence will go a long way to ensuring that the full potential of the bilateral relationship is realised to the benefit of both nations.

Dr Pradeep Taneja lectures in Asian politics at the University of Melbourne, where he is also an associate of the Australia-India Institute.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/honesty-on-attacks-on-indians-will-help-both-sides-20100205-niid.html

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If they don't like it in Aussie they can piss off to the UK. Plenty of room there, aye  Mr Pig!

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Without reading all the above drivel, what is the bottom line to this post? Is it about red nigger supposed rights or what?

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Is it about red nigger supposed rights or what?

Its all about Asstralians abusing the poor fuckers 

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Is it about red nigger supposed rights or what?

Its all about Asstralians abusing the poor fuckers 

Over here they should have all been killed. Period.

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Over here they should have all been killed.

Asstrangians? you have the fuckers over there?

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Is it about red nigger supposed rights or what?

Its all about Asstralians abusing the poor fuckers 

Pig are you now a lover of indians and paki's?

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If they don't like it in Aussie they can piss off to the UK. Plenty of room there, aye  Mr Pig!

No they can't lib, any more than your people can go back to Greece.

This is the glue that binds you assies together.  You are rejects.  A decent country wouldn't have you.  But by your very existence you make the rest of the world a better place.

No, you can never escape.  But you can rest easy at night, knowing that you aren't bothering us anymore.  And for that we thank you.   

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If they don't like it in Aussie they can piss off to the UK. Plenty of room there, aye  Mr Pig!

No they can't lib, any more than your people can go back to Greece.

This is the glue that binds you assies together.  You are rejects.  A decent country wouldn't have you.  But by your very existence you make the rest of the world a better place.

No, you can never escape.  But you can rest easy at night, knowing that you aren't bothering us anymore.  And for that we thank you.   

No Greek connections as far as I'm aware Phil. Unless you know something that I don't. Isn't Phil a Greek name?

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If they don't like it in Aussie they can piss off to the UK. Plenty of room there, aye  Mr Pig!

No they can't lib, any more than your people can go back to Greece.

This is the glue that binds you assies together.  You are rejects.  A decent country wouldn't have you.  But by your very existence you make the rest of the world a better place.

No, you can never escape.  But you can rest easy at night, knowing that you aren't bothering us anymore.  And for that we thank you.   

No Greek connections as far as I'm aware Phil. Unless you know something that I don't. Isn't Phil a Greek name?

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If they don't like it in Aussie they can piss off to the UK. Plenty of room there, aye  Mr Pig!

No they can't lib, any more than your people can go back to Greece.

Greece, fucking Greece!  Just look at the flag. Any greek in oz can return there and I wish they would, parasites!



and the flag of New South Wales




King Edward VII approved the New South Wales Arms in 1906.

    * The central red cross is the Red Cross of St George, it is the old badge of the Colony. It is also the Navy flag badge and so recognises the contribution of naval officers such as Captain Cook and Governors Phillip, Hunter, King and Bligh.
    * The four stars on the cross represent the Southern Cross, which was from earliest times a mariner's guide.
    * The lion in the centre is the English lion from the British Arms.
    * The golden fleece and the wheat sheaves in the corners represent NSW's primary industries.
    * The rising sun crest continues the use of the earliest colonial crest and represents a newly rising country.
    * The right-hand supporter, the lion, is a recognition of the British origin of the first settlers and the continuing connection between the two countries.
    * The left-hand supporter, the kangaroo, is Australia's most distinctive animal. It is often used as an emblem of Australia.

The motto means "Newly risen, how brightly you shine".

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If they don't like it in Aussie they can piss off to the UK. Plenty of room there, aye  Mr Pig!

No they can't lib, any more than your people can go back to Greece.

Greece, fucking Greece!  Just look at the flag. Any greek in oz can return there and I wish they would, parasites!



and the flag of New South Wales




King Edward VII approved the New South Wales Arms in 1906.

    * The central red cross is the Red Cross of St George, it is the old badge of the Colony. It is also the Navy flag badge and so recognises the contribution of naval officers such as Captain Cook and Governors Phillip, Hunter, King and Bligh.
    * The four stars on the cross represent the Southern Cross, which was from earliest times a mariner's guide.
    * The lion in the centre is the English lion from the British Arms.
    * The golden fleece and the wheat sheaves in the corners represent NSW's primary industries.
    * The rising sun crest continues the use of the earliest colonial crest and represents a newly rising country.
    * The right-hand supporter, the lion, is a recognition of the British origin of the first settlers and the continuing connection between the two countries.
    * The left-hand supporter, the kangaroo, is Australia's most distinctive animal. It is often used as an emblem of Australia.

The motto means "Newly risen, how brightly you shine".

That looks a bit like the Food Lion Lion.