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 11: Australian Islamic leaders have urged parents to embrace religious cartoons – one being Barakah Hills, being purported as an Islamic alternative to Peppa Pig. The shows’s theme would be loosely based on the popular series Peppa Pig, set in a “predominately Muslim town”, so Muslim youth couldRead More →
Melbourne, December 8: The Australian High Commission in New Delhi has stated that visa applicants belonging to India would be allowed to use the Priority Consideration Service – a fast track mode for an additional fee. Majority of fast-track applications is expected to be finalised within 48 hours of being receivedRead More →
Melbourne, December 4: Directed by veteran Bollywood actor Vipin Sharma, Akki Vikki tey Nikki is a comedy set in contemporary Bollywood – about the obsessive nature of actors, writers, producers and directors working in the world of Hindi cinema, Bollywood. He is currently in Melbourne to showcase the first cutRead 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 →
New PISA results confirm decline in Australian educational averages Melbourne, December 6: “Two sets of independent international test results released in the past week show that Australia’s education system has serious deficiencies,” Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) senior research fellow Dr Jennifer Buckingham said. Last week, results released from TIMSS 2015Read 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 →
Melbourne, Nov 28: Once believed to be dead, Australia’s most wanted Islamist terrorist, Neil Prakash, whose father is a Fiji-Indian, is reported to have been arrested while trying to cross over from war-torn Syria into Turkey. Prakash was arrested by Turkish officials in Turkey, when he tried to cross theRead More →
With 60 per cent of men and women more likely to stray in Spring and Summer than any other time of year, we are officially in prime cheating season, on partners. Although there is no doubt people all around Australia are having affairs, what is surprising is some of the weirdRead More →