AUSTRALIAN ELITE SCHOOLS EMBROILED IN HATE SCANDAL
MELBOURNE, Australia - Several elite schools here are embroiled in a race hate scandal as many of their students join a Facebook group calling for immigrants to get out of Australia, the '"Sunday Herald Sun'' newspaper reports.The group's page, which features a picture of the Australian flag with expletive words written across it, tells non-English speakers "if you wanna speak your crappy language, go back to were (sic) you came from".
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- The Facebook group is called "Mate, speak english, you're in Australia now" and has more than 5000 members from across the nation.
- The newspaper said anti-racism groups and school principals condemned the site, started as a prank, and called for Facebook to delete it.
- Its provocative and poorly spelled page features racist rants against non-English speakers and migrants.
- The group includes students from Scotch College, Melbourne Grammar, Geelong Grammar, Trinity Grammar, Lauriston, Mentone Grammar, Ivanhoe Grammar, Camberwell Grammar, and Haileybury as well as a number of government schools.
- Dr Chris Hayes, Principal of Xavier College, said anyone who had joined the group had broken the school's rules.
- "The school abhors this sort of behaviour because it goes against everything the school stands for," he was quoted by the newspaper as saying.
- Principal Ross Bevege of Berwick Secondary College said the site was disgusting and offensive and that he had contacted a student's parents about his involvement.
- Meanwhile, police are investigating the vicious fatal stabbing of an Indian student on his way to work in Melbourne.
- The 21-year-old staggered into a Hungry Jack's restaurant on the corner of Somerville Road and Geelong Road, in the western suburb of West Footscray, about 10pm Saturday and pleaded for help before collapsing.
- He was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital but later died. Police said the man was stabbed in the abdomen.He managed to stumble about 300 metres to the Hungry Jack's restaurant where he worked part-time.
- Homicide Squad Senior Sergeant Dave Snare, who described it as a vicious attack, said that, at this stage, there was no known motive and there was no evidence the man was targeted because of his race.
- The victim was understood to be from India's Punjab region. Police are trying to contact relatives in India to determine if he had any family in Australia.
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