Report: Official's Remarks Stirred Racism
Posted on: Friday, 30 May 2008, 21:00 CDT
An Australian government report says Africans in the country were subject to increased harassment after a former official's controversial statements.
The confidential Immigration Department report said reports of racial harassment against the African community spiked in New South Wales after former Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews commented in November 2007 that Sudanese immigrants were failing to integrate and engaged in crime, The Age reported Friday.
On 14 November 2007 ... anecdotal evidence suggested an increase in racial harassment directed at Africans in the Parramatta area, the department-in-confidence community update said.
Multicultural Affairs parliamentary Secretary Laurie Ferguson condemned Andrews' remarks.
His comments were not only counterproductive in regards to stirring up racism and hostility. It is also now very hard to convince the African community the intake hasn't been reduced to zero, he said.
Source: United Press International
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