we assimilate Curtin University has endowment an honorary Doctorate of Letters to Rosmah Mansor, mother of Malaysia's Prime Minister.
My name is KK Low. My family as well as we emigrated to Australia in 1992. We have acquired Australian citizenship as well as have been proud as well as privileged to be called Australians. Australia is a good country for migrants. My family find so most peace, opportunity, safety, leisure as well as a bright future in a brand new country. My family consisting of my wife, a adult daughters as well as myself have been tax payers. We have been happy profitable taxes since of a opportunities since to us.
we would similar to to express my bewail as well as we am sure a regrets of thousands as well as perhaps millions of Malaysians or ex Malaysians over this award.
Institutionalized racism
You will most substantially know which Malaysia institutionalized taste opposite her own citizens-the Non Malays (Indians, Chinese as well as others who have been not Malays). Under a so called National Economic Policy which was started some-more than thirty years ago (after a racial riot in 1969 in which hundreds of trusting Chinese lifes were loss due to brutal killings), a statute Malay tranquil Party instituted legislations after legislations, administrative policies favouring a Malays opposite a non Malays. This embody welfare to good schools, colleges, universities.
Good non Malay students who scored well in open examinations were denied places in local universities. Malay students with medicore formula were not usually! since p laces in universities as well as mostly with scholarships saved by tax payers. Many bad non Malay students were denied concept preparation just since of their race.
The supervision adopted share systems opposite a non Malays. If we as well as your colleagues take a little time to have a survey in Curtin or alternative Australian universities we will find most Indian as well as Chinese Malaysian students studying in Australia. Most of them have been bad students as well as their preparation in Australia have been saved by their tough working parents or contributions from lengthened families. Why do they need to spend so most income to come to Australia to study? (The sell rate of AUD to Malaysian ringgit is 1AUD= RM3.1. An average brand new connoisseur in Malaysia earn RM3,000pm). Because they have been denied this fundamental right to investigate in Malaysia even though they have achieved glorious results. Just since they have been innate Indian as well as Chinese.
Many Australians have a wrong assumption which Chinese students (full profitable students) come from abounding background. It's absolutely incorrect. Chinese know which to equalize a playing field, a usually approach is to take a tertiary education. To a Chinese income spent upon preparation is an investment. You might additionally want to control a survey in your university as well as in alternative universities in Australia which these students once they graduated will cite to sojourn in Australia. Why? Why do these students willing to live in a unfamiliar land away from family groups as well as friends?
Institutionalized discrimination
Whilst Australia is a single of a most appropriate countries in a world to live as well as suggest tremendous opportunities, a single has to assimilate when these students return to Malaysia, they will be DISCRIMINATED in anticipating jobs as well as their careers have been limited. Again this is due to a taste policies already INST! ITUTIONA LISED in Malaysia. Most substantially a non Malay students will find it intensely difficult to join a supervision use (there is a share system in hiring supervision servants. we do not know a expect figure though most people say is during leat 80-90% for Malays).
The supervision as well as members of a statute celebration by a NEP regulating open funds tranquil a vast chunk of a Malaysian economy. This covers a financial services industry, transport, infrastructure, agriculture, oil as well as gas, etc. Many of a opportunities in these companies have been DENIED to a non Malays. So a non Malay students have to find work in multi inhabitant companies. Even afterwards a multinational companies under senior manager administratve orders have been compulsory to sinecure a minimum percentage(30%) of Malays during all levels in a company.
Before a association is authorised to be open listed, it has to fulfill certain NEP requirements. One of a mandate is about 30% of a IPO shares must be allotted to Malays or Malay tranquil organisation. This embody a issue of licences such as cab licences, licence to import unfamiliar made cars, squeeze of housing where during slightest 10% of in isolation housing must be sold to Malays, etc. These have been all tranquil as well as since to Malays or Malay tranquil companies. Discrimination is not usually restricted to preparation as well as employment.
Even sacrament is not spared
It extends to sacrament where non Muslim religions were controlled. For example it is intensely difficult to build a church or a temple in Malaysia. Many non Malay Malaysians innate in a country or married to Malaysians were denied their rights as citizens while thousands of Muslim Malays from beside countries find it simpler to take a blue temperament cards which recognize them as citizens.
Having lived in Australia as well as adopted a Australia approach of hold up in particular democracy, leisure of speech, ! leisure of eremite belief as well as a approach of giving every Australian a free go in hold up irrespective of race, religion, age, gender we find it intensely humiliating which your university has since this endowment to a mother of a Prime Minister who not usually continue such taste though move it to a higher level.
Throughout my 20 years vital in Australia we work as a human resources manager for Australian as well as US global companies. we welcome a Australia approach of hold up in seeking during a chairman upon his or her merits, qualifications, experience as well as what a chairman can move in to my employer. we did not as well as will not decider a chairman by race, religion, gender, age. This is since Australia is a good republic as well as attracting people from a globe.This is additionally a reason since in 1992 we left a promsing career as Vice President as well as regional HR director of a US bank as well as my mother as director of IT to come here. Is since we concluded Malaysia will not give us as well as a family equal event while Australia as well as Australians will.
A really wrong message
By giving a endowment to a mother of a Prime Minister who continue taste (which is opposite a core of Australian enlightenment as well as belief) your university is passing a really wrong summary to a statute system of administration in Malaysia to continue DISCRIMINATION opposite her people.
we want to qualify which most non Malay Malaysians have considerate relations with their Malay Malaysians. When we grew up in Malaysia we have most Malay friends. we still have. Most Malays in Malaysia have been peace loving, kind as well as eremite people. They have been really hospitable. It is a statute system of administration whose members regulating ther racial as well as religiouss card have been perpetuating this corrupted process to sojourn in government.
If we have been a peace amatory Malaysian we will be harm knowing s! uch a pr estigious endowment is since to someone who does not deserve it. Your press recover was circulated between thousands of Malaysians (within as well as outside Malaysia) who have been similar to me deeply disappointed.
Yours sincerely
K K Low
An Aussie bloke
Malaysia Chronicle publishes this open letter from K K Low to Curtin University in good faith as well as leaves it to readers to sign for themselves a sincerity as well as fairness of a content
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