Category archives for: Community

Short+Sweet festival adds Bollywood to its flavour!

  Zenia Starr with Romin Khan promoting  Short+Sweet Bollywood Short+Sweet – the festival of tasty short theatre bites has announced a bright – and very colourful –  new star in the Sydney theatre scene:  Bollywood!   From March 9-22 Short+Sweet launches its latest version of the popular 10 minute theatre franchise:  an exciting new dance […]

Essential legal information for older people

  Important legal information of particular interest to older people is contained in a new diary published by Legal Aid NSW and available free across NSW. “The  Legal Topics for Older Persons Diary  covers 12 legal issues of special relevance to older citizens – one topic each month,” said Lauren Finestone, acting Director of Civil […]

Woolworths Petrol offers customers up to 14c a litre off fuel

  Wednesday, 7 January 2014: Woolworths Petrol has today announced a new limited time petrol discount offer that will see customers offered up to 14c a litre off their fuel price. Petrol prices have already fallen with the drop in world oil prices to levels not seen for around six years. With the discount at […]

Baird to visit India on January 10

  NSW Premier Mike Baird has announced his first official visit to India will take place this month to progress trade opportunities between the two countries. Mr Baird will visit the Indian cities of Ahmedabad, New Delhi and Mumbai as part of the visit to take place from Saturday 10 January to Tuesday 13 January. […]

Modi’s idea of Good Governance

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi has outlined meaningful engagement, simplification of procedures and processes, redressal of grievances and the use of technology to bridge the government-citizen gap as focus areas for his government. Here is the Prime Minister’s message to the nation on the occasion of ‘Good Governance Day’: Sushaasan – Good Governance is […]

Indian flavour in Sydney Festival (Jan 8-26, 2015)

  The best of our city in summer is back with a vengeance as Sydney Festival returns to our favourite destinations across Sydney, Parramatta and beyond. Expect a spectacular program of free and ticketed events spanning contemporary and classical music, theatre, dance, visual arts and much more. Sydney Festival 2015 is comprised of 179 events, […]

Nominations open for Premier’s multicultural community awards

  Nominations for the 2015 Premier’s Multicultural Community Medals are now open and tickets for the Premier’s Harmony Dinner are now on sale, Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello has announced today. Winners of the medals will be announced by NSW Premier Mike Baird at the Premier’s Harmony Dinner at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse on […]

An Appeal and an Invitation

An Appeal and an Invitation – To be Friends of the Ethno Specific Indian Origin Age Care Project in Dandenong The message concerning the ‘Ethno Specific Indian Origin Age Care’ from Mr Vasan Srinivasan, Chair, Confederation of Indian Associations Inc.,  was long awaited and welcoming news for the Indian Community in Australia. This project was […]

Indian tourist traffic on the rise

  Minister for Regional Tourism John Barilaro said the increasing appetite from the Indian market to include regional NSW into travel itineraries builds upon the strong results in the year ending September 2014, which saw 86,500 visitors from India come to NSW, who stayed 3.2 million nights and spent $192 million. Mr Barilaro said a […]

Many ways to celebrate this Sydney  New  Year’s  Eve

              This  New  Year’s  Eve, the best seat in the house for Sydney’s world famous fireworks displays may well be at home – in front of the TV, next to the radio or by your computer, tablet or phone. The City of Sydney is teaming up with ABC TV, […]