Usain Bolt overruns the ball during a friendly trial match between the Central Coast Mariners and the Central Coast Select in Gosford, Australia. Bolt, who holds the world records ...
Spain's rider Marc Marquez of the Repsol Honda Team steers his motorcycle after falling down during a warm up session for the MotoGP race at the Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix at t...
Performers from Opera Australia play a scene from the production "The Turk in Italy" at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney. Cartoonish sets and bright costumes are set around 1950's ...
Performers from Opera Australia play a scene from the production "The Turk in Italy" at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney. Cartoonish sets and bright costumes are set around 1950's ...
Peru team celebrate after their 2-0 win over Australia in the group C match between Australia and Peru, at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Fisht Stadium in Sochi, Russia.
Australia fans cheer prior to the group C match between Australia and Peru, at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Fisht Stadium in Sochi, Russia.
Australian players greet supporters at the end of the group C match between Australia and Peru, at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Fisht Stadium in Sochi, Russia.
Peru's Paolo Guerrero scores his side' second goal during the group C match between Australia and Peru, at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Fisht Stadium in Sochi, Russia.
Peru's Anderson Santamaria, background, and Australia's Tomi Juric go for a header during the group C match between Australia and Peru, at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Fisht St...
Peru goalkeeper Pedro Gallese makes a save during the group C match between Australia and Peru, at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Fisht Stadium in Sochi, Russia.
Australia's Mile Jedinak, left, celebrates scoring his side's opening goal during the group C match between Denmark and Australia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Samara Arena i...
Australia's Aaron Mooy, left, clears a ball during the group C match between Denmark and Australia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Samara Arena in Samara, Russia.
Denmark's Christian Eriksen is congratulated by his teammate Yussuf Yurary Poulsen after scoring the opening goal during the group C match between Denmark and Australia at the 2018...
Denmark's Thomas Delaney, Australia's Trent Sainsbury, Denmark's Simon Kjaer and Australia's Mile Jedinak, from left, go for a header during the group C match between Denmark and A...
Members of the Sydney Dance Company, Janessa Dufty, right, and Izzac Carroll, perform during a preview of their new production, "ab [intra]", a work by Spanish-born choreographer R...
A man doing maintenance work abseils down the center dome on the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney.
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Fireworks light up at Carrara Stadium during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia.
Mia Heathcote, top, and Alexander Idaszak from the Queensland Ballet perform at Carrara Stadium during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Austra...
Dancers perform during the closing ceremony at Carrara Stadium during the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia.
Sydney Morning Herald report on this week's magazine cover story:
IT IS a magazine cover that will make the hearts of Australian university bosses and diplomats sink.
"Why the Aussies hate us" screams the cover of this week's influential Indian news magazine Outlook.
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The editor-in-chief of Outlook, Vinod Mehta, defended the coverage and denied allegations that the Indian media were overreacting. He told the Herald: "We sent two correspondents to Australia and they found that an overwhelming number of these incidents were racial and they found that Indians in Australia live in fear. There is tremendous outrage in this country. I don't think the Australians realise that."
Mr Mehta said one reason for the anger was the "smug and superior attitude of the Australian government for denying there was racism and then telling the Indians not to hype this up".
Mr Mehta said he published the story with great regret.
"I like Australia a great deal but you have to see there is a problem, and by denying it you won't get anywhere."
Read the full story at SMH
R. Jagannathan in the DNA makes a very timely reminder:
Over the last few weeks, the world has come face to face with Australian racism. Australia has some of the toughest anti-racial legislation in the world, just as we have some of the most draconian anti-casteism laws. But legislation does not make a society less racist, less communal or less casteist.Read more at DNA
Only steady social change, continuous interaction between communities, a liberal education system and empowerment of the downtrodden can do that. But that's a long process.
What the race attacks Down Under tell us is that no one in the world is immune from us-versus-them tribalism. Racism and xenophobia have been a part of the human mental make-up for thousands of years.
