By Sudha Kumar. On 3 Sep 2017, I had the absolute honour and privilege of spending a couple of hours with Dr. Shashi Tharoor ”“ Member of Parliament (India), Former UN Undersecretary General, Author. After an extremely successful session at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival, Dr. Tharoor was a speaker at ”˜Antidote ”“ Festival of Ideas, […]
It’s the beginning of the ”˜business end’ of the school year, with more than 70,000 students counting down to the official end of Year 12, less than two weeks away. Education Minister Rob Stokes has reviewed the final preparations of more than 700,000 exam papers for 118 courses that are now ready for distribution to […]
The Sixth Australian National Hindu Conference with the theme ”˜Strengthening Communities ”“ Stronger Australia’ provided a platform to more than 35 Hindu organisations, temples, and associations where they shared ideas on how they could work unitedly to strengthen their communities and make Australia stronger. The conference, held in Adelaide, was highly praised by many dignitaries […]
Awards celebrate excellence in public schools 13 September 2017. Education Minister Rob Stokes today honoured the most outstanding students, teachers and parents across NSW public schools in the Minister’s Awards for Excellence for 2017. Mr Stokes said the awards highlight the tremendous contribution that students, teachers, principals, parents and school communities make to public […]
By Vijay Badhwar They are self-appointed representatives of God, claim miracle powers, live a life of luxury, control harems, command followers, rich and powerful – truly what a misguided human would see in the image of a god. O pity, pity, gentle heaven, pity! Those innocent, gullible, unsuspecting souls! Those 30 killed, injured and ruined […]
4.7 million Australians to benefit from September indexation 4.7 million pensioners and allowance recipients will receive an increase to their welfare payments from 20 September 2017. Minister for Social Services, Christian Porter, said that as a result of the regular twice-yearly indexation, pension payments including Age Pension and Disability Support Pension will rise by $6.10 […]
By Neena Badhwar We came to Australia in our young years and were the pioneering first Asians that set foot when the immigration doors opened by Australia in the seventies. Now this same very Indian population is growing old, entering its senior years and is sadly passing away. Delhi Road in North Ryde is our […]
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has released its report in to the Government’s proposed citizenship changes to the Australian Citizenship Legislation Amendment (Strengthening the Requirements for Australian Citizenship and Other Measures) Bill 2017. Labor’s major concerns in this legislation are: the requirement for new citizens to be able to speak university level English and; […]
12 September, 2017. Probably fearful of the Islamic backlash, Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) ”˜Lamb Ad’ video does with an apology from Prophet Mohammad, but bankrupt of clever ideas and understanding of religious sensitivities, they stoop low to advertise lamb through gods from various religions sitting around a table, including Lord Ganesh raising a toast […]
Speakers, IDCA members and participants at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre By Dr. Satish Rai On March 20 1917 the abhorrent Indian indenture system, (now known as girmit in many parts of the world) was legally abolished by the Legislative Assembly of the colonial India. The Indian indenture system of human trafficking was preceded by […]