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Indians slam Oz top cop’s advice to ‘look poor’ to avoid attack | Indian students living in Australia have slammed Victoria
Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland ’s advice that they should not work as taxi drivers and should 'look as poor as you can' to avoid being assaulted. Overland
had made the comments at an international students’ safety forum attended by about
150 people in the city on Saturday. “Don’t display your iPods, don’t display your
valuable watch, don’t display your valuable jewellery. Try to look as poor as
you can,” Overland said before adding that foreign students should try to avoid
living in Melbourne ’s poorer suburbs where crime rates are higher. However,
Federation
of Indian Students of Australia secretary Gautam Gupta blasted the advice, saying
that Indians should not have to look “poor” to feel safe. “What is he saying?
Indians don’t have the right to be rich? And if they look rich, do they maybe
have to get bashed? On one hand, everyone should look poor. On the other, don’t
live in poor areas. I don’t understand,” The Age quoted Gupta, as saying. He further
said that taxi drivers had a right to feel safe no matter what their nationality
is. “It’s a workplace. Every workplace should be safe. I think it's a ridiculous
idea. It is blaming the worker. It is blaming the victim,” Gupta said. |
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