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If your association has been putting off the grant paperwork, the first of these rounds closes on Friday 25 September 2026. Four separate rounds open to community organisations across Brisbane, Logan and Moreton Bay close before 5 October 2026. The biggest is the state round most people mean when they talk about Queensland multicultural grants, […]Read More
Somewhere in Sydney this October a phone will ring from India with news that the immersion is done, and the household taking that call will still be counting the days towards it. Both ends of the call will have been following a calendar. The dussehra 2026 date is genuinely contested this year, and a family […]Read More
Most Indian cultural moments in Sydney are finished by midnight. A major exhibition about the sari is about to hold a room in Casula for nearly five months, and it opens on the eve of Diwali. The Offbeat Sari Liverpool dates are already sitting on Liverpool City Council‘s own what’s on listing. The exhibition runs […]Read More
Fifteen years behind the wheel in Chennai or Chandigarh counts for nothing at the Service NSW counter in Parramatta. The decision was made long before you walked in, on a single web page, by a list. Transport for NSW publishes the overseas licence NSW exemption list, naming every jurisdiction whose drivers can convert straight across […]Read More
A Hindu place of worship for 20 people at a time, inside an existing house on 12.05 hectares at 330 Grants Road, Woodstock, drew 753 written submissions and a unanimous refusal from the City of Whittlesea on 14 October 2025. All eight of the council’s grounds concerned green wedge and rural land policy. None mentioned […]Read More
The Victorian Department of Education’s current list of accredited community language schools, dated July 2025 and still the version linked from vic.gov.au after that page’s 27 March 2026 update, carries 184 school entries under 47 language headings. Hindi, which 66,930 Victorians told the 2021 Census they use at home, appears twice, and both times as […]Read More
On Sunday 13 September 2026 a new bus, route 186, started running between Tarneit Station and the new West Tarneit Station, and the Premier’s office said “more than 1,100 weekly services” had been added to the Tarneit bus network. That changes a story that has been building since the Victorian Budget 2026/27 put almost $100 […]Read More
A buyer who signs a house-and-land contract in Tarneit or Clyde North in October 2026 does not yet know whether the kitchen can have a gas cooktop. If the builder lodges the building permit application in 2027, the answer is no. The Building and Plumbing Amendment Regulations 2025, gazetted in December 2025 and starting on […]Read More
On 8 August 2025 Ingrid Stitt, then Minister for Multicultural Affairs, announced grants “of up to $2.4 million” for each of two new Indian community centres, one in Melbourne’s west and one in the south-east, with expressions of interest closing on 17 September 2025. One year later the address printed in that release returns a […]Read More
On Thursday 24 September 2026 the Crime Statistics Agency publishes recorded crime for the year to 30 June 2026, the last full-year figures before the 28 November state election. The tables it will replace, for the year to 31 March 2026 and released on 18 June 2026, already show a pattern that most coverage stops […]Read More
