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 →
Sydney, December 6: Australia’s biggest international investors, the India-based conglomerate Adani Group has promised not to employ overseas skilled workers on Australia’s 457-category temporary visas for its mega coal mine project, the $21 billion Gaililee Basin coal mine in Queensland. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, who met Adani Group chairman GautamRead More →
The upper house cross-bench for Turnbull is larger, more diverse and lot more ideological than that which confronted Tony Abbott after the 2013 election; but a major qualitative difference between the two Coalition governments indicate a greater scope for pragmatism and momentum in 2017, in the Turnbull government, writes DrRead More →
Melbourne, December 2: In a shocking disclosure of a long known but unrecognised actuality, the Australian Population Research Institute (APRI) revealed that foreign IT workers represent the largest component of the 457 program. The erstwhile unpublished data showed that Indian nationals acquire more than three-quarters of the total IT openingsRead More →
FECCA calls for balanced debate on temporary migrant workers Melbourne, November 21: The 457 visa scheme in Australia has been blasted by a legal expert, terming the regulations as “farcical” and “too lax”. Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Adelaide and Rhodes Scholar, Dr Joanna Howe, who hasRead 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 →
Canberra, November 14: The US will take in refugees, currently held in immigrant centres managed by the Australian government in Nauru and Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced, Sunday. It remains unknown how many refugees of the 1600 detainees on Manus Island and Nauru, the US will accept.Read More →
Ivan Hinton and Chris Tench were among the first couples in same-sex marriage, in Canberra in 2013 courtesy @ABC (AAP: Alan Porritt) Melbourne, November 8: Anxiety within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community will be a record high today, set to continue for some more time asRead 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 →