Melbourne: Without making an excuse for
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 an AAP
report that despite the recent spate of violence, generally
the feedback received from the nearly half a million Indian
students was positive towards the country, but that did not
excuse the incidents.
She acknowledged that parents whose children are
studying in Australia must be worried about their children.
"We`re absolutely disgusted with some of the violent
incidents we`ve seen involving Indian students," she said
adding "There have clearly been policing problems and the
Victorian and NSW police particularly have been responding.
"She said the government was working with the police
and various education outlets to educate students before they
come to Australia and to ensure there is regulation of the
outlets that send students to the country.
She was speaking in Adelaide where Australian Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd hosted an event yesterday evening that
attracted about 500 people to the Norwood Morialta High
School.
The report said that her comments followed after one of
the crowd members was the former president of the Indian
Association in South Australia who raised a query of what the
country would do to stop the growing problem of violence
against Indian students.
PTI
