MESSAGE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER THE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT The Government will not proceed with the proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (the Act). Over the last five months, the Government has undertaken a comprehensive process of community consultation. We wanted to hear from […]
Australia’s Immigration and Border Protection Minister Scott Morrison met with India’s Home Affairs Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj at Parliament House in New Delhi on July 22. Reuters reported that the trio discussed all issues pertaining to illegal migration. Scott Morrison is the highest level […]
Manpreet Kaur Singh’s radio documentary ‘The Enemy Within’ on domestic violence in local Punjabi women was also the Walkley Awards 2013 finalist SBS has taken home Silver at the New York Festival’s prestigious International Radio Program Awards, held in New York last night. SBS radio Punjabi […]
By Rekha Bhattacharjee When Narendera Modi was sworn in as India’s 14th prime minister on Monday evening, the world’s largest democracy was marking the ushering in of a new era. Over 2,500 privileged guests witnessed not only the culmination of a perfect storm generated by the Modi-led […]
Message from PM Abbott to the Indian community in Australia: I spoke to PM-elect Modi on the night of his election and congratulated him on his electoral success. I am looking forward to working with him. I invited Prime Minister Modi to the G20 Summit later […]
The Sydney Film Festival have just announced the full program for the 61st Festival running from 04-15 June. There is an interesting line up of Indian films that one should not miss: Charulata (The Lonely Wife) – The wife of a newspaper editor in the 1870’s finds a […]
Minister for Education, the Hon Christopher Pyne The Federal Coalition Government will invest $42 million in ground breaking tropical health and medicine research to be conducted by James Cook University (JCU), delivering on an election commitment to communities in northern Australia. Minister for Education, the Hon […]
Minister for Employment Senator Eric Abetz said employment figures out today demonstrate the need to get the economy back on track. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April remained steady at 5.8 per cent, although the labour force participation rate declined slightly from 64.8 per cent in March to 64.7 per cent […]
By Manbir Kohli It looks like the Liberal government will go ahead with the deficit-levy/tax when the budget comes out on Tuesday. All the talk of the economy is in crisis and doom-and-gloom that they have been projecting is totally bakwaas. For instance look at the unemployment figures […]
Prime Mintser Tony Abbott giving his reasons for the need to make big changes in the upcoming budget to be out next Tuesday 13 May 2014 at 7.30pm released by the treasurer Mr Joe Hockey. In recent weeks, as I’ve met people across Australia and read their letters […]