Equity
Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Within Australia, there are approximately 1,500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identifying students, constituting less than 0.5% of total postgraduate enrolment. This lies substantially below the 2.2% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation within the wider community. These students are broadly distributed across Australia’s 39 Universities and Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education.
Victoria Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission – Hate Crime Survey
Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission is conducting a survey on Victorians' experiences of harassment, vilification and crime motivated by hatred and prejudice to help us develop our submission to the State Government hate crime review - see information below.
Terror Down Under: Reasons for attacks on Indian students in Australia are complex
THE truth”, says Oscar Wilde, “is rarely pure, and never simple”. This is especially true in the case of the recent spate of attacks on Indian students that are being attributed to a mix of racism and opportunism in Australia.
Most incidents of “curry bashing” (South Asians are called “curries” in Australia) are occurring in Melbourne, a sprawling cosmopolitan metropolis that is home to some 140 nationalities from the world over who speak in over 120 different languages.
Foreign Students: Cite Universitaire a cote de la Yarra?
Foreign students: Cite Universitaire a cote de la Yarra?
Michael R. James writes:
