On 23 May 2023, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a bronze plaque marking what City of Parramatta called its “emerging ‘Little India’ precinct in Harris Park”. They unveiled it at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney Olympic Park, before a crowd the council put at more than 18,000. Not in […]Read More
Ranga Tiruman ran Rasam, a vegetarian Indian restaurant in Canberra’s Civic, for two years with co-owners Uday Vasiraju and Gayathri Srinivasan. When he told The Canberra Times in June 2026 that it would close, he did not describe a business that failed to find customers. He described one that never made money at all. “Since […]Read More
In 1973 a proclamation listed the countries whose grants of probate the Supreme Court of Victoria would accept by resealing rather than by a fresh application. Hong Kong was on it. So were Malaysia, Singapore, Kenya, Gibraltar, Guyana, Papua New Guinea and six Canadian provinces. India was not, and it does not appear on the […]Read More
On 22 October 2025, the New South Wales Legislative Council agreed to a motion recognising Diwali. The Minutes of Proceedings record it as item 39, moved by the Hon. Mark Buttigieg, with the outcome noted in six words: “Debate ensued. Question put and passed.” Buttigieg is a Labor member of the Legislative Council and the […]Read More
Sonal Sapkota trained as an intensive care nurse in Nepal and arrived in Australia in 2018 to study a master’s degree, working through visa restrictions and bridging programmes to register as a nurse here. She moved into residential aged care in 2020. On one night shift, close to 10.40pm, a resident who had herself been […]Read More
As at 31 August 2026, 1,019 internationally qualified specialists had applied for Australian registration through the Medical Board of Australia’s Expedited Specialist pathway, and 801 had been registered through it. The Board’s own monthly summary report breaks those applications down by country of specialist qualification. There were 889 from the United Kingdom, 92 from New […]Read More
As at 30 June 2025, 971,020 people living in Australia were born in India. That made India the largest overseas-born group in the country for the first time on record, just ahead of England on 970,950, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Nepal-born residents numbered 213,580 and Sri Lanka-born 184,800. Almost none of those […]Read More
Sophia Kim left Australia in May 2025 with less than $10,000 of superannuation sitting in an Australian fund. More than a year later, she still did not have it. She had worked here first on a working holiday visa and then on a longer-term employment visa, and once she was gone she started applying for […]Read More
In August 2019, Zerub Roberts had just finished a master’s degree at Deakin University and wanted to work as a data scientist. Demand was not his problem. His problem was that “data scientist” did not exist as a job on the official occupation classification that Australia’s skilled visas are built on. Roberts, who had come […]Read More
Russell Gous spends his working days comparing what it costs to move money out of Australia, and even by his standards the India numbers stood out. “Private remittances are not only an act of love and duty but also a significant driver of economic activity in recipient countries,” the editor-in-chief of comparison service Money Transfer […]Read More
