Victoria Park at Herston is council owned parkland today. The formal chance to tell the Queensland Government what you want it to become closes at 5pm on Sunday 27 September 2026. Consultation on the draft Victoria Park Precinct Legacy Plan closes at 5pm on Sunday 27 September 2026. The plan puts a new oval stadium […]Read More
Count the carriages next time you are standing at Woodridge, Goodna or Kuraby. Three instead of six is why the walk down the platform has felt tighter since autumn. Queensland Rail has been running a reduced timetable since Tuesday 5 May 2026, after protected industrial action. More than four months on, the Queensland Rail timetable […]Read More
Read the suburbs the NSW government has singled out for extra help with apartment solar and the list looks less like a policy document than a census of this readership. Harris Park. Granville. Merrylands. Auburn. Lidcombe. Blacktown. Liverpool. Fairfield. Lakemba. Twenty nine of them are listed below. Before the list, one thing to be clear […]Read More
The most useful piece of travel news this year for Sydney’s south west arrived inside a press release that never once mentions India. On 24 March 2026, Singapore Airlines confirmed it will fly daily between Singapore Changi and Western Sydney International from Monday 23 November 2026. For a household in Austral, Leppington, Oran Park, Gregory […]Read More
A Singapore Airlines aircraft will push back from Western Sydney International at 11.55pm. The last suburban bus out of that airport will have left almost two hours earlier. The Western Sydney Airport opening is now locked in. Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport takes its first passengers on Sunday 25 October 2026, when a Jetstar […]Read More
Blacktown drivers have pulled more than $4 million back out of Sydney’s tollbooths, across 12,030 claims at an average of $398 each, one of four suburbs the government groups above $4 million alongside Auburn, Baulkham Hills and Merrylands. Few numbers say as much about where the cost of driving in this city actually lands. The […]Read More
Voting in Australia is compulsory. So is enrolling. And yet, three months after their citizenship ceremony, 21.2 per cent of Australia’s newest citizens were still not on the electoral roll. That figure comes from the Australian Electoral Commission’s own performance reporting, published on 14 July 2026. It covers 51,865 people whose ceremonies fell in the […]Read More
There is an agreement between Australia and India that lets your Indian working years count towards the Australian Age Pension. It has been in force for more than ten years. The pension side of it was covered by two SBS language services in January 2016 and has had almost no substantive Australian coverage since. It […]Read More
The Australia migration debate is usually conducted at national scale: targets, visa numbers and annual population growth. But migration does not happen in spreadsheets. It happens in suburbs. Few places show that more clearly than Melbourne’s west, where some of Australia’s fastest-growing communities are also home to large populations with roots in India and across […]Read More
National “March for Australia” rallies will return to Australian capital cities this Sunday, 30 August, almost exactly one year after the movement first brought thousands of anti-immigration protesters onto streets across the country. This time, however, the message being presented to the public is different. Rather than putting “mass immigration” at the centre of its […]Read More
