Rising Racism or Rising Awareness? Indian Communities in Australia Speak Out

Rising racism or rising awareness? Indian communities in Australia speak out

The past week has seen a painful pattern emerge across Australia. In Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, a series of targeted graffiti attacks defaced a Hindu temple and a wellness centre. Red spray-painted slogans like “go home” appeared overnight on the walls of the Shree Swaminarayan Hindu Temple and nearby businesses. Victoria Police are treating these as hate-motivated incidents. The Coalition’s shadow ministers Andrew Hastie and Paul Scarr issued…

Australia: Swaminaryan Temple in Melbourne vandalised with 'hateful racial slurs'

Melbourne [Australia], July 24 (ANI): The Swaminarayan Temple in Melbourne's eastern suburb of Boronia was vandalised with hateful racial slurs, the Australia Today reported on Thursday. As per the report in the Australian news outlet, the Shree Swaminarayan Temple on Wadhurst Drive was vandalised with red-painted slurs demanding, 'Go Home Brown C**t.' It reported that the same slurs defaced two nearby As