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
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 Airbus A320 lifts off for the Gold Coast at 11am. Freight has been moving through the site since 26 July 2026. What the Western Sydney Airport opening puts […]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 by a Grant Thornton client alert in April 2016, […]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 returned to Australian capital cities on 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 presented to the public was different. Rather than putting “mass immigration” at the centre of its campaign, March […]Read More
A major overhaul of Australia’s migration system that was expected to be announced in early August was delayed, and one proposal that emerged from the government’s deliberations could have significant consequences for thousands of temporary migrants, including Indian nationals. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke had been scheduled to address the National Press Club on 6 […]Read More
Australia’s migration regulator has sanctioned three registered migration agents after finding they allowed unregistered people to provide immigration assistance using their professional registration numbers, exposing a practice authorities describe as “front agent” activity. The action by the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (OMARA) includes one cancellation and two suspensions. In the most extensive […]Read More
Six Indian cricketers took the field across the Women’s Big Bash League in the summer of 2024-25, the largest Indian presence the competition had seen, and not one of them featured in the men’s Border-Gavaskar series filling Australian back pages. Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shikha Pandey, Yastika Bhatia and Dayalan Hemalatha spread across […]Read More
