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Breakfast television and a park full of colour: Holi Festival Sydney’s national moment

Staff Writer 17 August 2026

Holi Festival Sydney’s Tumbalong Park weekend was featured on Weekend Sunrise, taking a Darling Harbour colour throw to a national audience. Why it matters for 2027.Read More

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The Lord Mayor in the colour cloud: how Holi Festival Melbourne became a civic fixture

Staff Writer 17 August 2026

Footage from Holi Festival Melbourne 2026 shows Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece among the stalls at Ron Barassi Senior Park. Why that visit matters for 2027.Read More

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Beyond Border-Gavaskar, India’s women are a Big Bash drawcard

Ankit Gupta 12 August 2026

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

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The truck driver who answered racism with food and became Australia’s Local Hero

Nayan Chandra 12 August 2026

A man leaned out of a passing car in Sydney and called Amar Singh a terrorist. Singh, a turbaned Sikh who drove trucks for a living, had heard versions of the insult for years, on the road and on worksites around Wollongong. This time, in 2014, he decided to do something with the anger. He […]Read More

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Australia needs 28,000 more truck drivers while its Punjabi workforce faces roadside abuse

Rahul Raj 12 August 2026

Jaswinder Boparai was standing at a South Australian truck stop, speaking Punjabi to his wife on the phone, when a stranger walked over and spat on him. Boparai, an Australian citizen and father of two who runs a small fleet of trucks, has spent more than a decade moving freight around the country. He told […]Read More

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How Hinduism and Sikhism became two of Australia’s fastest growing faiths

Indrasish Banerjee 12 August 2026

On the night of the 2021 Census, 684,002 people in Australia recorded their religion as Hindu, and about 210,400 recorded it as Sikh. Five years earlier those figures had stood at 440,300 and 125,900. Two traditions carried to Australia largely by migrants from India and Nepal had become among the fastest growing faiths in the […]Read More

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Garba fills the arena as touring Gujarati stars remake Navratri in Australia

Mitali Sardesai 12 August 2026

On a Saturday night in July 2025, dancers in chaniya cholis and kediyus circled a floor the size of an aircraft hangar at Sydney Olympic Park. The venue was The Dome at Sydney Showground, a timber-framed hall that seats about 7,000 people and describes itself as the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. […]Read More

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Kemps Creek’s new mandir and the Hindu temples rising across Australia

Sharath Komarraju 12 August 2026

A 15-metre metal statue of a young ascetic, standing on one foot with his eyes closed, now looks out across a 25-acre site at Kemps Creek in western Sydney. The figure depicts Bhagwan Swaminarayan in his youthful form as Nilkanth Varni, cast in a pose of penance, and the volunteers who raised it describe it […]Read More

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Australia sets a pay floor for the international students behind its delivery apps

Priyam Chatterjee 12 August 2026

Bijoy Paul had come to Sydney from Bangladesh in 2016 to study for a master’s degree. On a night in late November 2020, the 27-year-old was delivering food for Uber Eats in the suburb of Rockdale when he was struck by a car and killed. He was the fourth food delivery rider to die on […]Read More

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Indian Australians protest in Melbourne and Sydney over India’s exam leak crisis

Deepak Gopalakrishnan 4 August 2026

Hundreds of Indian Australians gathered at Federation Square and Parramatta Square in solidarity with the youth-led protests that demanded accountability from India’s former education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan.Read More

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Breakfast television and a park full of colour: Holi Festival Sydney’s national moment

The Lord Mayor in the colour cloud: how Holi Festival Melbourne became a civic fixture

Beyond Border-Gavaskar, India’s women are a Big Bash drawcard

The truck driver who answered racism with food and became Australia’s Local Hero

Australia needs 28,000 more truck drivers while its Punjabi workforce faces roadside abuse

How Hinduism and Sikhism became two of Australia’s fastest growing faiths

Garba fills the arena as touring Gujarati stars remake Navratri in Australia

Kemps Creek’s new mandir and the Hindu temples rising across Australia

Australia sets a pay floor for the international students behind its delivery apps

Indian Australians protest in Melbourne and Sydney over India’s exam leak crisis

Breakfast television and a park full of colour: Holi Festival Sydney’s national moment

The Lord Mayor in the colour cloud: how Holi Festival Melbourne became a civic fixture

Australia’s long wait in India and the 2027 tour worth travelling for

The new checks at the settlement table

Breakfast television and a park full of colour: Holi Festival Sydney’s national moment

The Lord Mayor in the colour cloud: how Holi Festival Melbourne became a civic fixture

Australia’s long wait in India and the 2027 tour worth travelling for

The new checks at the settlement table

Sri Durga Temple Rockbank – Largest Hindu Temples In Melbourne

Commonwealth Bank becomes Australia’s first bank to offer buying and selling of cryptocurrency

The Masterchef Talks: Sashi’s Secret! At Naturally good Expo, Sydney

Struggles of Transition: The Migration Experience of Indians in Australia

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