Melbourne, September 14: Narre Warren South resident, Vaiga Karthik, 4, emerged as the People’s Choice winner in the inaugural SBS National Languages Competition. Nearly 20,000 students aged 4 to18 years, entered the nationwide competition –themed ‘what does learning language mean to you?’ The inaugural 2016 SBS National Languages Competition aimedRead More →
Case Study 21 – the response of Satyananda Yoga Ashram at Mangrove Mountain NSW in response to allegations of child sexual abuse by ashram’s former spiritual leader in the 1970s and 1980s, released today noted that there were significant barriers for child victims to disclose sexual abuse to adults orRead More →
Melbourne, September 11: John Howard addressing National Press Club in Canberra was more than mundane politics. Australia’s second-longest-serving prime minister at his appearance to celebrate his forthcoming ABC documentary on Robert Menzies, was thrown a question of ‘under-representation of women in the Liberal parliamentary ranks’ – a long held beliefRead More →
Sydney, September 12: The exercise would have landed him an insurance payout of $225,000 – or so he hoped! In the process he killed three people, setting fire to his Rozelle shop and causing a calamitous explosion that claimed the lives of Chris Noble, Bianka O’Brien and her baby sonRead More →
Sydney, Sep 8: Tasmin Bahar, 35-year-old Bangladeshi woman and her ex-partner of Indian origin, were discovered dead inside a house in the western suburb of Smithfield, here, in a suspected murder-suicide. Their three-year-old daughter was found sleeping in the house at the time and was not injured. The bodies ofRead 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 →
Gandhinagar, September 9: Hon. Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Vijay Rupani received a delegation from Australia led by Her Excellency Harinder Sidhu, Australian High Commissioner to India, in Gandhinagar on Friday. Mr Rupani and Ms Sidhu with their delegations discussed cooperation and collaboration in the areas of education and skillRead More →
Australia’s political history has lessons on the consequences of Plebiscites, writes Dr Economou. Thanks to the awful reality that very few people study either Australian history or Australian politics any more, the lessons that the past might teach today’s politicians about the consequences of their actions are just not beingRead More →
Melbourne, September 7: Sri Lankan couple, Kumuthini Kannan, 48, and Kandasamy Kannan, 52, faced the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday over allegations they kept a slave in their home in suburban Melbourne. Each has been charged under the Commonwealth law, with one count of possessing a slave, from July 2007Read More →
Melbourne, September 5: The new advertisement copy for Australian lamb celebrates diversity – swinging from Luke Jacobz to Indian Australian actor Arka Das, of ‘UnIndian’ fame, in the supporting lead role of TK. “Too many perky white males are contributing to a lack of diversity on our screens”, says Jacobz before disappearing andRead More →