Despite the recently released Australian Senate committee report on student welfare, no assurance has been committed to the Indian students regarding their safety in the land of Kangaroos. The matter became worse after the brutal death of Nitin Garg, an immigrant of Punjabi origin studying and working in Australia on a part-time basis.

The report elaborated that there are little evidences that the attacks are based on the issue of racism. The report further points out that, foreign students must take care of their personal safety while they are studying in Oz, along with other conclusions that regulations should be tighter; overseas recruitment agents are the root cause for the problem; some amendments in the immigration work conditions should favor individual flexibility; to name a few. The committee has also made the recommendation that international students must be provided with more information on personal safety before they land in Australia.

Also, the Interim Baird review report has blamed the “shonky operators” as the root cause for this problem and suggests the tightening of the Migration rules in future.

Neither of the reports clarified the main cause and solution to this majorly growing problem of “racial attacks” in Australia on a regular basis. Despite of all these reports, measures by government and several reforms, innocent students like Nitin continues to pay the price of being an Indian and studying in a country like Australia! What is the ultimate solution to all this?