Category archives for: Community

Message from Mike Baird and John Robertson

  PHILLIP HUGHES I am deeply saddened by the passing of cricketer Phillip Hughes. This is a heartbreaking time for all cricket and sport lovers in our State. Phillip was a much-admired, dedicated and supremely gifted cricketer who we all felt was on the verge of fulfilling his immense talent. Phillip’s meteoric rise from the […]

More English Test Options for Visa Applicants

Visa applicants now have more choice in English language testing with the addition of two new assessment options, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash, said. Temporary graduate, skilled, work and holiday, and former resident visa applicants are now able to take advantage of the changes. “Applicants are now able […]

Parineeti the Kill Dil girl

  Neeru Saluja interviews Parineeti ‘Chirpy’ Chopra the Kill Dil girl… If you think actress Parineeti Chopra is a bundle of energy on screen, she is no different off screen. You can feel the spark and the enthusiasm in her voice which makes you realise why she is called the ‘Chirpy Chopra’. Though she never […]

Delhi Daughters play in Sydney!

  Sunali Bhandula and Cheryl Khurana playing the daughters in Delhi Daughters By Neena Badhwar Indian community has witnessed many stage plays that are now being enacted still the scene is lacking in migrant Indian issues that are yet to find a genre and a spot in the field of theatre in Australia. Finally a […]

Sydney witnesses Modimania !

    By Neena Badhwar While Brisbane got to host G20 Summit with Modi pressing for black money to be repatriated to India as discussions on the agenda of anti-corruption, tax evasion and trade by the G 20 nations releasing a 3-page 21-point communique, Canberra received its own highlight where Mr Modi gave an address, […]

Geoff Lee welcomes Modi to Sydney

  State Member for Parramatta, Geoff Lee was honoured to join thousands of members of the Australian-Indian community to celebrate the arrival of Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to Australia – the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Australia in over 28 years. “I met Modi back in 2013 at the Vibrant […]

‘I regard Modi as a brother’: Tony Abbott

  Cricket diplomacy was on show at the reception given to Narendra Modi, at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground, with the Prime Minister saying a ‘new journey’ in India-Australia relationship has begun. Addressing a select gathering at the reception hosted by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and attended by cricket greats like Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil […]

Tony Abbott’s address to Parliament on Mr Modi’s visit

TRANSCRIPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER THE HON. TONY ABBOTT MP ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, PARLIAMENT HOUSE Madam Speaker, Mr President.   It is long overdue for an Indian Prime Minister to address this Parliament – given that the leaders of the United States, China, Indonesia, Britain, Canada, Japan and New Zealand have already […]

Coalition commits to the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne

Minister for Innovation and Trade, Louise Asher Coalition announces renewal of funding for the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Expressions of interest  will also be called for a second government-supported culture-specific film festival Napthine Government supporting closer cultural and economic ties with India A re-elected Napthine Government will fund the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne […]

Australia and India strengthen international crime cooperation ties

  The Hon Michael Keenan MP, Minister for Justice, has signed a Prisoner Transfer Agreement between Australia and India as well as a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Counter Narcotics Trafficking and Developing Police Cooperation. Both the Agreement and the MOU will further bolster the strong law enforcement cooperation relationship between Australia and India, and […]