This is a good news story of Jaswinder Singh. An Indian citizen, he arrived in Australia on 24 November 2007 as the holder of a subclass 573 visa valid until 30 September 2011. He was 23. He was subsequently granted the subclass 457 visa to work as a Cook (ANZSCORead More →
Hindu Society of Victoria – HSV has been fighting a Compliance Notice issued to it by a Fair Work Commission inspector in the Federal Circuit Court since 2014. On 19 November 2014, the Fair Work Commission had issued a Compliance Notice alleging various contraventions by the HSV and required theRead More →
Daniel Andrews and wife Catherine lead Melbourne Pride March on 9 Dec last year @abc – Daniel Andrews has now cut ties with Safe Schools founder, Roz Ward Melbourne, December 20: Last week saw adamant Daniel Andrews’ cutting ties with controversial Safe Schools founder, Roz Ward, after the program comeRead More →
Everything we do is Melbourne, Melbourne & Melbourne; I want to do things differently: Matthew Guy said of his plans for future Victoria, speaking exclusively to Dinesh Malhotra. It’s holiday time and peak season for politicians to reveal their ‘human avatars’ – the real family people, sometimes even taking aRead More →
The Victorian Government funded Safe Schools program claiming to help schools combat homophobia and transphobia, is quite the contrary – it will socially engineer young minds with unproven fringe academic ideas writes Dinesh Malhotra. Especially designed as anti-bullying for young people from the LGBTI communities, the program teaches schools, orRead More →
Ramachandra Guha’s fear for India’s freedom of expression is half-cooked at best and practically non-existent at its worst, writes Dinesh Malhotra. Speaking at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Link and Australia India Institute (AII) joint lecture “Eight Threats to Freedom of Expression in India”, Guha – eminent historian, biographer andRead More →
As the Federal Court threw out Cynthia Prior case of 18C against 3 QUT students, the functionality and authority of 18C has been tested. It actually protects FREE SPEECH, writes Dinesh Malhotra. He writes that Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs, rather, has a lot to answer for thisRead More →
Free speech debate should be a question on policies rather than fib-filled spin doctoring and demagoguery of 18C writes Dinesh Malhotra Melbourne, September 5: “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist,” said Salman Rushdie. And the protagonists of ‘Kill 18C’ in Australia seem toRead More →
It makes my blood boil to see how factually wrong information is broadcast… says Ravi Bhatia …Indian girls will not sacrifice their chastity just to get their PR… says Uday Dhumatkar Melbourne, August 3: The time was just after 8am on Monday June 27 morning and the start of theRead More →
by Dinesh Malhotra Melbourne, July 19: Breathtaking is the word for the Lake Mountain highland – atop a 20 minute snow-shoeing or a 10 minute cross country skiing from the resort centre base, through an undulating and pristine snow-covered easy climb. You cannot pass it for anything in the world!Read More →