Consultations by AHRC and VEOHRC staff with representatives of other religious communities, including the Hindu and Sikh communities, also reveal anecdotal information of possible violations of religious freedom including, for example, dietary requirements not being respected in prisons. We also heard during our consultations from members of the Sikh community that they, too, experience serious harms, sometimes because they are incorrectly identified as Muslim. In October 2018, SBS reported that more than 30 statues at the Hindu Barathiye Mandir Temple in Sydney’s Regents Park were destroyed after vandals set fire to the interior of the temple. The perpetrators broke instruments, covered the room with paint, smashed items and wrote the word ‘Jesus’ on a wall. Head priest Pundit Paras Maharaj said, ‘We never expected anything like this to happen in Australia.’21 There is also limited research on Indigenous Australian spirituality and how it relates to questions of freedom of religion. For example, in ‘Sacred Claims and the Politics of Indigeneity in Australia’, Miranda Johnson explores how sacred claims by Indigenous Australians ‘have raised profound questions about settler national and Indigenous identity, legal evidence and the authenticity of tradition, and the history of colonialism within Australia’. She noted that the nature of demands by government and legal bodies for such claims to be authenticated can have ‘sharp consequences for Indigenous peoples who are not able to meet the high evidentiary expectations’.22 Freedom of religion in Australia: a focus on serious harms • July 2020 • 13