On a December evening at Tarneit station, Rifai Raheem stood in front of a crowd of commuters who had given up waiting for a bus. He had helped organise the rally through the Tarneit Transport Action Group after petitions to local MPs produced no commitments. “The West needs better buses to address inadequate public transport […]Read More
The festival season has a rhythm every Indian-Australian household knows: Ganesha arrives in September and the diyas come out in November. The dates are less settled than the rhythm, because Australia sits hours ahead of India. Here is what the panchang says about the dates this year. First, pin down the dates Australia’s festival dates […]Read More
Amar Singh has spent close to three decades in Australia, and he has spent much of it giving things away. The Sikh charity he founded in 2015, Turbans 4 Australia, distributes up to 450 food and grocery hampers a week across Western Sydney, and has driven supplies into drought, flood and bushfire zones. In 2023 […]Read More
Every spring, the same quiet arithmetic runs through Indian Australian households. The October school holidays, Diwali and the start of the cricket season all fall within a few weeks of one another, and hundreds of thousands of people begin pricing the long flight back to India at precisely the moment airlines know they can charge […]Read More
An opening date, at last Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport, named after the pioneering Australian aviator, will open to passengers on 25 October 2026. The date was confirmed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and it follows the start of freight operations in late July. “Fifteen years later, this new airport is almost ready to […]Read More
A visa hundreds of thousands rely on About 214,714 people held a subclass 485 visa in late February 2025, and Indians are comfortably the biggest national cohort among them, according to analysis by the higher education policy expert Andrew Norton. South Asian nationals made up around 60 per cent of all 485 holders while accounting […]Read More
Satya Vaibhav had planned to study abroad. The engineering graduate from Chennai had taken electives in ethical hacking and settled on cyber security as a career. Then a family emergency derailed those plans. He enrolled instead at Deakin University’s campus inside GIFT City, the special financial centre on the Sabarmati river near Gandhinagar in Gujarat. […]Read More
When Australia last won a Test series in India, Adam Gilchrist was captaining in place of an injured Ricky Ponting, a young Michael Clarke was announcing himself with 151 on debut in Bangalore, and the result was hailed as the fall of Australian cricket’s “final frontier”. That was late 2004. By the time the two […]Read More
If you plan to buy or sell a home in Australia in the second half of this year, expect a few more questions before the keys change hands. From 1 July 2026, real estate agents, conveyancers and lawyers must confirm who their clients are and, in many cases, ask where the purchase money is coming […]Read More
Since 1 October 2025, any Australian citizen or permanent resident buying a first home has been able to do it with a deposit of just 5 per cent, with no income test and no lenders mortgage insurance to pay. The change to the First Home Guarantee removed the income limits that used to shut out […]Read More
