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| By Bijender Sharma |
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Saturday, July 04, 2009 (11:19:42) |
| Tags : Australia, Racial attacks, India, MP |
Australian MP criticizes attacks on Indian students |
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| Dharmshala: Michael Danby, Visiting MP from Australia and chairman of Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Migration and Foreign Affairs has demanded the Australian government to take action to stop the attacks on Indian students in Australia. While addressing the Press Conference at Dharmshala he vehemently criticized the attacks.
He, along with other MPs - Peter Slipper, Nick Xenophon, Melissa Parke, and Senators Scott Ludlam and Sarah Kanson Young, are in the town as part of the delegation of the Australian All-Party Parliamentary group for Tibet.
Danby said the Australian government was taking steps to check racist attacks on Indian students. For this, policing pattern was being changed and measures were taken to provide assistance to affected students.
On July 12, a harmony march will be held in Melbourne in which students of both the nations will participate, he said.
On the issue of Tibet, the Australian MP said they deplored the move of the Chinese government to produce fake Panchen Lama. Meanwhile, Sarah Kanson Young was of the view that China should allow media to go to Tibet to assess the human rights situation there.
MP Peter Slipper supported the mid-way path suggested by the Dalai Lama in which he had demanded autonomy under the Chinese sovereignty.
Nick Xenophon, another MP, admitted that trade ties with China were weighing down heavily on the mind of the Australian government due to which the government was desisting from making an open statement on the issue of Tibet.
The Australian MPs were, however, cold with the idea of increasing the numbers of Tibetan refugees in their country. |
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