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Bollywood boycotts Australia
Strait times, Singapore
June 4,2009
MUMBAI - BOLLYWOOD'S biggest labour union said on Thursday its members would refuse to work in Australia until attacks on Indian students there ceased.
Two Bollywood movies - including one by Bollywood's largest producer, Yash Raj Films - were to be shot in Australia this month.
'None of our associate members will work in Australia until the racism issue is resolved,' Dinesh Chaturvedi, head of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE).
FWICE, which represents 250,000 workers, including actors, lighting and sound technicians, camera operators and dancers, issued a notice to all Bollywood producers announcing the boycott. |
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China's government has joined India in demanding that Australia provides better protection for foreign students following a series of violent assaults on Indian students that have centred on the city of Melbourne.
The attacks, which include the slashing of one man with a box-cutter and the stabbing of another with a screwdriver, have thrown Australia's lucrative foreign student industry â the country's third largest export earner â into the spotlight.
China's intervention has raised concerns that the incidents could damage diplomatic relations with the country's main trading partners.
A statement from China's embassy in Canberra on Thursday made the country's disquiet over the attacks clear.
"There are over 130,000 Chinese students in Australia. They have on the whole had good study and living environment in Australia, but attacks on Chinese students also occurred in recent years," it said.
"It is hoped that the Australian government will provide better protection to international students from China and other countries." |
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50-60% of students may opt for UK, Canadian varsities
Kalpana Pathak / Mumbai June 4, 2009, 0:33 IST
Australiaâs âcurry bashingâ appears to have affected the education business. Educational counsellors, travel agents and industry observers say 50 to 60 per cent of students who had planned to apply for admissions this November to study in Australia are considering or are being guided to alternate destinations like the UK.
Sanjay Narula, Managing Committee Member, Travel Agents Association of India, concurred, âStudents who have already finalised their tickets and packages are going ahead with their plans but new inquiries have dropped by 50 per cent.â
He added that many of these students are now looking at South-East Asia and students who have not paid their fees yet to Australian universities are being recommended to the UK and Canada instead.
The news can be equally disconcerting for Australiaâs economy. International education is the third largest source of overseas earnings, generating around $12 billion in 2008 and supporting more than 125,000 jobs in Australia. Over 93,000 Indian students are currently pursuing higher education in Australia.
According to the Australian government, as on April 2009 (year-to-date), there were 436,895 enrolments by full-fee international students in Australia on a student visa. China and India were the largest markets in both enrolments and commencements (which refers to the start date for the course).
China accounted for 24.1 per cent of enrolments and 24.2 per cent of commencements; India 18.7 and 16.7 per cent, respectively. |
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PREMIER Colin Barnett will jet to Beijing to try to save billions of dollars in Chinese investment in WA jeopardised by Friday's BHP Billiton-Rio Tinto deal.
Mr Barnett said he would now need to convince investors their money was still welcome in WA when he headed to China next month.
``We have got a very, very messy situation on our hands with China right now,'' he said. ``I'm going to China next month and I expect it to be a very difficult visit now.
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Through The Looking Glass
June 03, 2009
WA Today
Surely Australians are mature enough to admit to some culture of racism instead of continued denial.
Scenes of the Prime Minister's effigies being burnt in India appear to be a bad Bollywood production if it did not have such serious implications for Australia, its export markets in education and trade, and its standing as an important power in the Asia region.
Not even the best public relations people could massage the battered image of Australia when you add to this the comments of former Telstra boss Sol Trujillo, who recently branded us a nation of racists.
At dinner last night with the Regional Director of Western Australia Trade Office in China, it was highlighted that the implications of the Indian students'; unrest, concern about safety and allegations of racism may filter through to China, with drastic consequences for the state's revenue in education exports.
Similarly, the state's resources market is being threatened by shock advertising regarding Chinalco's investment in Rio Tinto.
The Chinese and any companies from non-Western countries have a right to question why Australians have taken such a stance when US-owned companies such as Alcoa are allowed to mine our bauxite without any hysteria being whipped up. |
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The following article was extracted from the Times of India
SOS: Save our students
Anand Soondas Friday May 29, 2009
Itâs with a lot of dreams that parents in India send their children for studies abroad, often under the burden of massive loans and even heavier expectations â from the extended family, friends and society. So when their kids are attacked abroad, mostly by lumpens and racists who, having themselves failed to do something substantial blame innocent desis for taking their jobs away, it breaks more than the heart. It breaks the trust in multicultural global cities being safe and free of the fetters of race and colour.
The fears are already starting to form. In Chandigarh, which routes the passage of 20,000 students just to Australia in a year, anxious parents are lining up at the doors of immigration agencies which handled the visa processing work and are dialing their sons and daughters in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth.
To that extent, external affairs minister SM Krishna has spoken up angrily and upped the diplomatic ante and word has come from Australia that it will punish the offenders, but more hard talk and call for security needs to be made to assuage feelings of fear among the Indian student diaspora, cowering in anxiety right now in lands alien to them. After all, they are paying huge sums of money to study in foreign colleges and universities, and the least they can expect is for themselves and their friends to be safe. |
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