The Australian government has handed over the Indian government, a police dossier of high-profile attacks on Indians over the past year.

The dossier that nearly half of those arrested since March last year for vicious assaults were less than 18 years old.

The dossier, prepared by Victoria Police, was handed over after Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith telephoned Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Jan 11 to express his condolences over the Jan 2 murder of Indian student Nitin Garg in Melbourne.