If Miranda Devine was an Indian mother, then she wouldn’t send her child to study in Melbourne. Particularly when all the pollies can do is whip out their personal spin machines on overseas junkets rather than address better policing methods.
Indian students
Is Melbourne a racist city?
Why is it that all the latest racist attacks against Indian students are occurring in Melbourne, when other cities like Brisbane also have large numbers of Indian students studying there? asks Mark Bahnisch.
Why aren’t we furious when Indian students are killed?
An alarming number of Indian students have been killed and injured in presumably racist attacks in the last year in Melbourne. But why doesn’t the Australian media rage against our society’s racism? asks Gautam Gupta.
Indian students are standing up for their rights
Indian students in Australia are standing up for their rights, arguing they have been exploited by the education industry, which is happy to take their money but has shown little interest in their welfare. Geoff Maslen reports.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Dangerous ideas
Crikey readers weigh in on Guy Rundle’s Festival of Really Dangerous Ideas, the Indian students report and the possibility of John Howard heading up the NRL commission.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Debacle yarn a real debacle
Crikey readers weigh in on errors with the privatisation on prisons article, Rundle on Christopher Hitchens and teaching the third world to swim.
Has the great Indian student bubble burst?
Speculation that the flood of Indian students into Australian education institutions (not to mention the $2 billion they bring to the economy each year) is about to dry up has generated alarm in political and educational circles, writes Geoff Maslen.
Australia and India: an uneasy relationship
Australia’s relationship with India has been difficult long before the racist attacks started against Indian students. But, do we now need them more than they need us?
Undercover Four Corners reporter bashed
A reporter for ABC’s Four Corners has reportedly been attacked and beaten while working undercover on a story about dodgy migration and education schemes for international students.
India: we’re racist, too
Before pointing fingers at Australia, Indians should look at our own racial prejudices, says Debarshi Dasgupta.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: First Dog and the Peter Costello conspiracy
What did First Dog know about Costello’s departure and when did he know it? Readers want answers. Plus climate change, Iran, Indian students and more.
Political snippets: Indian student controversy not forgotten
Australia continues to make the top of the news in India, for all the wrong reasons.
Guy Rundle: Stick to the colonial script
Week three of the Indian students crisis, and the racialists are at it again, says Guy Rundle.
Resisting the stereotype of the meek Indian student
It’s just as racist to stereotype people as diffident and mild as it is to stereotype them as violent and dangerous, writes Shakira Hussein.
Bollywood boycotts Australia over Indian student assaults
A Bollywood union has vowed it will boycott Australia as a filming location until more action is taken over the assaults on Indian students.
Australia’s racist underbelly
We may practise it politely, but, as recent attacks on Indian students show, Australia is still a racist country, says Bruce Haigh — and nothing will change until Rudd attempts to reverse some of the damage done by the Howard era.
Political snippets: Ugly Australian “curry bashers”
“Curry bashing” retains the headlines in India, enhanced by an abusive Australian air passenger, while the housing construction kick along continues.
Two symptoms, one cause: Indians’ battle for education
Two apparently unconnected events have shocked us: brutal attacks on Indian students in Australia and medical colleges auctioning ‘seats’ to the highest bidder. There’s a common link, argues Shankar Raghuraman.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Qantas responds to Crikey about inflight news censoring
Qantas does not seek to influence Channel Nine’s on air content. We do exercise this right of veto for items we believe may distress or offend our passengers, writes Michael Freedman.
Of course Australia is racist
The recent attacks on Indian students have thrust the issue of racism in Australia into the mainstream news bulletins, writes Bruce Haigh. But it’s always there, whether hidden or blatant.
Street louts have got nothing on the policy hooligans
While concerns for personal safety may be one very good reason why Indian students have suddenly becoming mobilised, there are other factors operating behind the scenes, writes Peter Quiddington.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: C’mon Crikey, enough David Jones catalogue speculation
You know what I see in the Alison Ashley ad? Two beautiful young girls looking into the camera, says Crikey reader Cathy Bannister. Crikey readers chats DJs, as well as swine flu, Indian student protests and more.
Indian student protests: perception vs. reality
The weekend’s demonstration by Indian students in Melbourne may have at last awakened the wider community to the violent problem — but it has risks too, says John Birmingham.
