Category archives for: Australian News

Visa 485 can help international students stay in Australia and work after completing a degree

  International students have greater chances to find employment under the federal government’s changes to the 485 Temporary Graduate visa. Under the changes to visa subclass 485, which took effect on March 23, foreign students who graduated with an Australian bachelor’s degree, masters or doctorate, can obtain a visa to remain and work in Australia […]

Alex Broun’s play sees oneness message in Vivekananda

Alex Broun By Neena Badhwar Alex Broun, director, actor and past director of Sydney’s ‘Short & Sweet’ Theatre festival is quite busy these days. He is directing a play on the life of Swami Vivekananda – an idea brought to him by Madhu Sen. Alex has written TV and film scripts and also about 70 […]

Swami Vivekananda in Sydney!

  Sahib Chatterjee as Swami Vivekananda with Dana Dajani as Sister Nivedita in ‘Oneness – Voice Without  Form’ At Sydney Opera House Playhouse 17 and 18 September 2013 The story of one man’s search for enlightenment that changed the world”¦ On the 150th anniversary of Vivekananda’s birth Swami Vivekananda and his extraordinary life becomes alive […]

Air India Dreamliner 787 touches down Sydney tarmac after 16 years!

Arrival of Air India Dreamliner 787 flight 312 at Sydney airport – Pic by James Morgan Excitement was in the air as everyone anxiously gathered at the tarmac to witness the touch down of Air India’s Dreamliner flight 312 at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport today on August 30, 2013. Invited Media, anxious staff of Air […]

Sunny Leone stays backstage yet charms Sydney!

Sunny Leone at the UIA Mela! Sydney community was angry that a former porn star and now actress in her own right Sunny Leone, of Indian Punjabi  heritage from Canada, was advertised as the star attraction on UIA Mela’s Australia-India Friendship Fair at Olympic Park on August 25. Sunny was here in Sydney to check […]

India country strategy – Australia’s blueprint for future engagement

    27 August 2013. The Prime Minister today outlined Australia’s blueprint for future engagement with India through the Australia in the Asian Century Country Strategy for India. Australia’s relationship with India has perhaps the greatest potential to grow out of all of Australia’s significant bilateral relationships in Asia.  There are 450,000 people of Indian […]

India’s easy-forex trader Shivanand Swami to kick for a $1 million dollar at NRL

  Shivanand Swami of Parbhani from India won a competition with easy-forex to kick in Sydney for the grand NRL for Us $1 million prize! The winner of the world’s biggest ever global trading competition, created by online group easy-forex ® has been announced and will be flown to Sydney, Australia to kick for the […]

People’ Forum on August 21 as both leaders reply to undecided voters!

  The above table by an Australian Research scholar.  By Rekha Bhattacharjee   The Prime Minister has said many times that Australia has a low budget deficit and debt to GDP compared with other major economies, and pointed to Australia’s AAA rating as evidence of a strong economy. The data indicates that the Prime Minister’s […]

Maharaja is back in Australia from August 30!

By Neena Badhwar Ravi Bodade, Manager, Air India did not realise when he came to Sydney that he will be under the spotlight after a long long time as many managers of Air India to Sydney came and went. Almost Nearly 16 years since 1997 when  India’s national airline ‘Air India’ shut its services to […]

A play on Swami Vivekananda

  Oneness – Voice Without  Form – a play on the life of Swami Vivekananda Sydney Opera House Playhouse 17 and 18 September 2013 The story of one man’s search for enlightenment that changed the world”¦ On the 150th anniversary of Vivekananda’s birth comes an extraordinary play about his extraordinary life.  The 19th century Indian […]