INDIA INDEPENDENCE DAY 2021 I send my warmest greetings to the people of India, and their friends and family in Australia, on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of Indian independence. In 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru described India’s independence as the continuation of an ‘unending quest’ — for the peaceRead More →
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has today provided provisional approval of the Moderna vaccine for use in Australian adults. The provisional approval of Moderna’s vaccine means it has met all the TGA’s strict standards of safety, quality and efficacy for use in people aged 18 years and over to preventRead More →
A new jointly funded business support package from the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments will give Victorian small and medium businesses the extra support and confidence they need to recover from the recent lockdown. The new Victorian Business Support Package will deliver an additional $400 million in support to thousands of businesses,Read More →
Opinion piece by Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia Around 11 million doses of the COVID 19 vaccine have now been administered. We are now tracking at around 1 million doses a week. Sure, we’ve had our problems. Not all the calls we have made have turned out like weRead More →
Scott Morrison had two jobs in 2021: Roll out the COVID-19 vaccine, and fix the nation’s broken quarantine system. The Prime Minister has bungled both. It is sobering to think how far behind the rest of the world Australia is when it comes to the rollout of COVID vaccinations. AboutRead More →
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Immigration minister Alex Hawke met with senior leaders from Sydney’s multicultural communities to listen to their concerns about Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak, and discuss the support being made available by the Australian Government. Grappling with a severe second wave, South West and Western Sydney in particularRead More →
How Scott Morrison’s ‘four-phase’ road back to normal will work Almost after 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian government has come up with a national pathway, a way out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week Prime Minister Scott Morrison said National Cabinet had agreed to a four-phase programRead More →
Sir Gerard Brennan, former High Court chief justice has chosen to weigh in on the on-going and unending saga of Biloela family – the Sri Lankan asylum seeker family’s fight to stay in Australia. Apart from the fact that both parents Priya and Nadesalingam Murugappan (Nades) came to Australia byRead More →
Prime Minister Scott Morrison visited the Hindu Society’s Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple yesterday. Mr Morrison spoke very highly of the Indian community in Australia and his love and affection for Indians in Australia and those in India. He also spoke very highly of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Excerpts from hisRead More →
by Scott Morrison This year’s Budget is a significant time in Australia’s history as the world confronts the worst pandemic in a century. We see the terrible impacts and toll of COVID-19 almost everywhere. Yet here in Australia, we are living life differently. Our economy is stronger than virtually anyRead More →