India – Australia

There has recently been a spate of racially motivated attacks against Indians in Australia.  This is an example of Indian reporting on the subject.  Google news India has more than 1000 articles on the subject, with every major English language newspaper reporting various details of the attacks, the subsequent protests, interviews with Indian students in Australia, and statements from various students and Australian politicians.

Out of curiosity, I went to google news Australia, to see what the Aussies think about all this.  Not too surprisingly, I found: nothing.  I found something about a party, some birds dying, and a whole bunch of other things.  I went down the list of articles to see whether there was anything India related. Finally, I saw ONE article on India and clicked on it.  False alarm: it was about an Aussie tourist who had died a natural death in India (but the Aussie press sounded like they wanted it to be a murder).

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that there are racially motivated attacks in Australia.