In response to increasing demands from backpackers, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said that the government would be taking the initiative to welcome them soon. In an official statement, he announced that the government is currently working on strategic pipelines of working holiday-makers, and their visas are being processed faster. Despite the news of the fast-tracking...Read More
Mr Nitin C, who has been working as a nurse for the past seven to eight years, was reprimanded by a three-member bench of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. The main allegations concern receiving or accepting an amount of $100,000 from a patient. According to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, Nitin has...Read More
Scams are on the rise across Australia. Fraudsters are coming up with more ingenious ways to con people out of money. Durva Bhatt, from the Indian state of Gujarat, is an engineering student at Macquarie University in Sydney. Ms Bhatt was out jogging when she said she received a call from fraudsters pretending to the...Read More
Indian Diaspora is getting ready to celebrate Diwali, the “festival of lights,” after a particularly dark year. On November 4th, Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs worldwide will commemorate the occasion, which honours new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil. On top of long-term local lockdowns in Australia, the Australian population has also had to...Read More
One residual effect of the Covid pandemic has been an upsurge in cybercrime. According to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, reports of phishing have spiked this year. One such victim is Sanjay Joseph. Mr Joseph was in the process of buying a property in North Kellyville, Sydney, when he received a text message from his...Read More
The Department of Health’s latest data shows about 78% of the eligible Australian population has received their first vaccine dose, and about 54% are now fully vaccinated. This is good news, especially as the Prime Minister assured the Indian diaspora that fully vaccinated citizens and residents could travel to India later this year. The Prime...Read More
Western Sydney University has finalised a plan to appoint an Academic Chair in Ayurvedic Medicine. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been signed by both the Western Sydney University and the Government of India Ministry of AYUSH. The AYUSH Academic Chair will be in charge of the campaign supporting Ayurvedic Medicine and oversee Ayurvedic Medicine...Read More
Most of us will never have heard of section 128 of the Migration Act 1958. This piece of Australian legislation allows the Immigration Minister to cancel your visa without notice while you are outside of the country. The Minister can do this once satisfied there is a reasonable ground for the cancellation. Unfortunately, this fate...Read More
As the number of Indian migrants continue to increase, the news that the Blacktown City Council has approved new street names such as Patel Street, Uma Street, and India Parade Street does not come as a shocker. Nimal and Manish Patel The developers who inspired the Blacktown City Council to approve the names are Manish...Read More
Seventeen-year-old Anjali Sharma made headlines after she and seven other Australian teenagers filed a lawsuit against environment minister Sussan Ley. The group took to the federal court in its bid to stop the approval of a mining project in New South Wales. Sharma’s claims gained more relevance after the Intergovernmental Panel’s report on Climate Change...Read More
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