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One evening in mid-October 2025, a little more than a week before Diwali, the sails of the Sydney Opera House turned gold above the harbour, the white shells washed in the colour of oil lamps. A short train ride west, Harris Park was doing the same thing at street level. In the pocket of Parramatta […]Read More
In a residential aged care home in Melbourne’s outer south-east, an elderly woman pushes away a plate of roast meat and boiled vegetables. She spent six decades cooking dal and rolling roti by hand. This kitchen does not know her food. The staff are kind, but none of them speak her language. Her children visit […]Read More
When Amandeep Singh does the sum on how long his mother must wait to live with him in Melbourne, the number reads less like a processing time than a verdict. The visa she needs is the non-contributory Parent visa. The official estimate now sits at 33 years. Singh told SBS Hindi that “waiting more than […]Read More
Most people would think twice before stepping out of a plane. An elderly man from Haryana did not. In a video that spread across Indian social media in late June 2026, he meets the moment with a shrug, a one-line answer and a tandem skydive over Australia. A family clip that travelled His grandson posted […]Read More
Near any Canadian college town, the desi grocers, Punjabi dhabas, driving schools and student-share landlords can see it already. Fewer new faces each intake. Quieter “just landed, need a room” group chats. Shorter queues outside the international office in September. For most of a decade the flow of Indian students into Canada ran like a […]Read More
For many people of Indian background in Australia, mango season brings a small, familiar disappointment. A Kensington Pride sits on the kitchen bench in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or Perth, golden and fragrant. Juicy, sweet, grown with care in Australia’s tropical north. Yet the first bite still feels different from an Alphonso remembered from Mumbai, Pune, […]Read More
The next shift in some Australian grocery baskets may not begin in a supermarket aisle. It may begin in a GP clinic. Weight-loss medicines such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro have mostly been discussed as health and cost-of-living stories. Who can get them, what they cost, how they work, and whether supply can keep up. […]Read More
A glass of turmeric milk now sells for the price of a light meal. In a Melbourne café it arrives as a “golden latte”, often on oat milk, dusted with cinnamon and photographed before the first sip. In thousands of Indian homes the same drink has a plainer name and a much longer history. Haldi […]Read More
More than 30,000 people filled Marvel Stadium on a cold Melbourne Thursday night in July, not for football but for a visiting head of government. The lights, the bhangra and the chants made for remarkable television. Yet for the Indian-Australians who queued in the winter dark, and for the businesses, students and families watching from […]Read More
Many people arrive in Australia believing caste stayed behind at the airport in Delhi or Chennai. For some it stays in the suitcase. It surfaces later, in a job interview, a rental application, a temple committee or a marriage conversation, quiet enough to deny and real enough to feel. Australia’s Indian community is one of […]Read More
