After the huge fiasco of Indian nationals posing at “students” (enrolled in Hair Cutting and Cooking), but actually seeking to immigrate to Australia–the bad blood between Australians and Indians have taken a new turn.

The acrimony has now begun to affect government to government relations. Australia is now refusing to sell Uranium to Bharat (aka India).

The so called Anti-Indianism in Australia has been tackled ‘down under”, and more than 20,000 Bharatis face deportation.

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Any Australian uranium sales to Russia would meet non-proliferation requirements, but the government remains firmly against sales to India, Trade Minister Simon Crean said on Friday.

The government on Thursday rejected a 2008 parliamentary report’s recommendation that Australia not proceed with an agreement to sell uranium to Russia.

The report expressed concerns that the uranium could be stolen or diverted for weapons use.

The government said it has not yet made a final decision on whether to ratify the agreement, signed in 2007 by former Prime Minister John Howard and Russian President Vladimir Puton, who is now Russia’s prime minister.

But it said the agreement met Australia’s long—standing condition that the country’s uranium only be used for peaceful purposes.

“We have taken considerable time on our part to ensure we’re satisfied, the International Atomic Energy Agency is satisfied, that the strictest of safeguards are in place,” Crean told Australian Broadcasting Corp. television on Friday.

But Mr. Crean said Australia would not restart negotiations with India on uranium sales to fuel its expanding nuclear power industry.

Howard’s conservative government started negotiations with India on uranium sales just months before Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Centre-Left government was swept to power in 2007 elections but ruled out exports unless it signs the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

“The signal to India … is that this is the way in which they can be recipients of our supply and it’s for India to respond to that,” Mr. Crean said.

If the Russian agreement is submitted to Parliament for ratification, it is expected to easily pass because the main opposition party backs nuclear trade with Moscow.

Environmentalists including the Australian Conservation Foundation, however, oppose uranium exports to Russia.

• http://www.upiasia.com/Blogosphere/Editor-Rupee-News/20090605/do_australians_hate_indians/
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• http://www.pakrockerx.com/politics/australia-expands-scholarships-for-pakistanis/
• Aussies hate Indian students. Want them sent home

The Indians call it “Curry bashing”. The “Dot Busting” Aussies tell the “Smelly Indians”–”Love it or leave it”. In a dramatic escalation in the war of words, the Indian diplomats have gone on a full scale offensive against Australia.  Massive backlash against India: Why do Australians hate Indians? Australians are voicing anger at the Indians. Sydney is claiming that many of the students are not students at all and promises a through investigation of the credentials of the “students”. In the end, India and Indians will be the loser. Australia will find rich Chinese students to fill the slots and Indian immigration to Australia will slow down.

The Aussies have been taken aback by the ferocity of the Indian offensive. Egged on by a media which has sensationalized the random act of violence, the Indian population seems to be in a frenzy. Not to be left out the Indian icon Amitabh Bachan has refused to accept an honorary degree. As if the Australians are “passing bricks”!

• http://rupeenews.com/2010/01/10/indians-are-pr-seekers-in-australian-universities/
• The escalating Indo-Australian race war
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Socialologists are asking the pertinent questions. Why is is that Indians are hated around the world. There is seething hatred against them in New Zealand, and the UK. OF course Indian students are not allowed in China. There is seething resentment against them in the US, as evidenced by the recent laws being passed in Congress which dramatically reduce the number of work visas issued to them. Australia used to a favorite destination for Indian students in the aftermath of 911. However the events of the past few years will dramatically change that. Australians are sick and tired of torublemakers who come to Australia, work at night, sleep during the day and save money to send home back to India. Most of the students are dirt poor and live like sardines in overcrowded dilapidated housing. Even though the Australian embassy has strict instructions to screen out the destitute, the Indian mafia provides them with fake documents showing huge bank balances and foreign currency reserves. Scams rnage from outright fraud to dishonesty. The amount of money in the bank account either does not exist, or is in a “pool” which only gets rented to the “potential” student

It like the pot calling the kettle black. Australians say that it is disingenous for the Indian leaders to lecture Australia about race relations. Sydney point to 450 million Dalit Untouchables and the 150 million marginalized Muslims in India as a manifesation of caste infestation in India

Keywords: Uranium, non-proliferation, nuclear, India-Australia, Kevin Rudd, NPT