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Reading Time: 3 minutes The Australian Football League has announced a long-term strategy to grow Australian Rules Football in India, setting its sights on more than 100,000 registered participants in the country over the coming years. The announcement, was unveiled as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, a symbolic staging that underlines just how closely the AFL is tying its India ambitions to the broader bilateral relationship.

Reading Time: 5 minutes It was an icy six degrees Celsius in Melbourne last night, but inside Marvel Stadium, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a generous welcome at the ‘Melbourne Meets Modi’ community reception. Some 20,000 Indian-origin people rocked up to see him, turning the stadium into a sea of cheers and anticipation.

Reading Time: 4 minutes How prepared is Australia to engage with India? According to more than 100 senior government, business and policy leaders gathered in Canberra, the answer is just 3 out of 5. The striking finding emerged from the inaugural India-Australia Business and Community Alliance (IABCA) Leadership Pulse Survey, launched at a high-level Australia-India roundtable on 2 July.

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SAISH (Sydney Australians of Indian Subcontinental Heritage) is introducing ‘SAISH Community Excellence’ Awards in the below categories: Student High Achievement Award Professional High Achievement Award and Highly Reputable community Service Provider Award The nomination form for the award is below (OR, downloaded from the Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/raj.datta.5680. saish-excellence-award-nomination-form LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION 15 August 2026, 5.00pm.

Reading Time: 3 minutes When Professor Payyazhi Vadakkekara Jayashree was asked to lead the new UNSW Bengaluru campus (set to open in August 2026) as Rector, it was not simply another senior leadership appointment. For the academic who began her journey at the University of Delhi before building an international career in transnational education, the role represented something far more personal: a chance to return to India and help shape a new chapter in its higher education story.

Reading Time: 3 minutes On a trip to Kerala’s Periyar Tiger Reserve, something clicked for Associate Professor Kamaljit Sangha that led to a beautiful cultural exchange. Having worked with Indigenous Australian communities for over 20 years, and Adivasi communities in the Western Ghats for around 10 years, the Charles Darwin University researcher in Ecological Economics noticed the similarities between the rituals she was observing at the reserve, and those of mob in Northern Australia.

Reading Time: 5 minutes While serving on the board of a women and children’s shelter, Kersherka Sivakumaran often found herself navigating moments of cultural misunderstanding. “There were a few instances where there were South Asian women who came to the shelter who ended up going back to their family or perpetrator…being a board member, you’d hear the report from the shelter manager,” she recalls.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Something hit me as I stepped off the plane in Paro, Bhutan. It wasn’t the stunning rugged mountains nearby, topped with a faint mist, like something out of a National Geographic magazine. It wasn’t the emptiness of the airport, since our plane was the only arrival. It was the stillness. The absence of sound, the lack of commotion, the complete serenity of the landscape. I felt isolated. Separated from the rest of the world. Like nothing and no one could reach me.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Australia have once again proved their position as the best team in women’s cricket, defeating hosts England by seven wickets at Lord’s to claim their seventh ICC Women’s T20 World Cup title and their first under the captaincy of Sophie Molineux. In front of a record crowd of more than 28,000 spectators at the Home of Cricket, the final was a clash between the tournament’s two unbeaten sides.