Sharma has been taken aback by a number of personal racist attacks in the past month.

'The situation is getting worse, you can say.

'See in the very first incident last month at the end of the June we all went to watch a movie in Fox Studios.

'We asked one taxi driver to just drop us (off), and three times he said, 'f***ing Indians, f***ing Indians',' Sharma was quoted as saying.

A few days later a stranger abused him on the street.

'He said, 'you f***ing Indian' immediately, and I was shocked,' he said.

'I was really shocked because that time, these things actually directly attack you on your mind.

'At that time you feel so much lack of confidence and everything ... you can recover from these things, but it takes time.

'So personally for me I think the situation is getting worse rather than getting better.'

Krishna is in Cairns to take part in meetings with delegates who attended this week's Pacific Islands Forum.

He will meet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd before further talks with Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith.

Sharma says he wants his minister to ask Rudd for 'a proper community engagement of international students and the local community'.