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...however, in the 36-year-old's dry chuckle. Race and discrimination are raw topics in Australia these days, after a series of violent assaults and robberies on Indian students over the past 18 months that have strained relations between Australia and India, triggered riots and mass protests in Sydney and Melbourne, and threatened Australia's $15 billion international education sector - the country's third biggest export income earner after coal and iron...
...Indian government to condemn the violence in June and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to issue a statement officially denying that the country was unsafe for Indian students. Students claimed the attacks were racially motivated, but police and government authorities maintained they were mainly opportunistic. Tensions also spread to Sydney, with protests erupting at Harris Park, in the city's west, where many of the assaults took place. Indian students are the second largest group of foreign students in Australian after those from China...
...Fish Frenzy The small flotilla of trawlers docked in the harbor by the Elizabeth Street Pier's Fish Frenzy restaurant, tel: (61-3) 6231 2134, bodes well for the freshness of the food. "Arguably the best fish and chips in Australia," according to the Sydney Morning Herald, and we agree. It's a bustling eatery where the fishy fare is served in cones of butcher's paper. A real treat is blue eye, or trevalla - a deep-sea fish that is very much a local delicacy...
...find it on bookshelves in New York City, London, Singapore and Sydney. It's a sponsor of literary festivals in Ubud on Bali and Hay-on-Wye in Wales. And it's distributed in 250 Barnes & Noble stores across the U.S. The Asia Literary Review (ALR) - a slick, expensive-looking quarterly magazine of writing from and about Asia - has come far since its early print runs of just a few hundred copies, when it was so little known that it struggled to attract enough content...
...Sydney Alleged Terrorist Plot Derailed Australian authorities said they had thwarted a potentially dramatic terrorist attack by Muslim extremists on one of the country's largest military bases. After police raided 19 houses on Aug. 4, five men were charged with planning to storm the base, near Sydney, and open fire on soldiers with automatic weapons. The suspects--Australian citizens of Somali and Lebanese descent--are believed to be connected to al-Shabaab, an Islamic group fighting Somalia's enfeebled government; officials said at least one had participated in the insurgency. Analysts say the plot highlights the prospect of future...