Australia's media watchdog on Thursday launched an investigation into the broadcast of a prank call to the London hospital treating Prince William's pregnant wife Catherine.
Taking the legacy of her father ahead, Amanjot Kaur Ramoowalia helped a family of nearby Dhaliwal Bet village in getting the body of their son back from Australia. Tirath Singh, who went to Australia six years ago and had got the citizenship six months back, died of a heart attack a few days back.
Celebrating the Hindu festival of lights, an annual Diwali event was held here that attracted thousands of Indians and locals to enjoy cultural performances along with fund raising for an awareness campaign to "stop violence against women".
Australian leaders' on Saturday expressed deep shock over sudden demise of India's consul general in Melbourne, S K Behera. Behera, 50, died last night after a massive heart attack.
Australia is keen to expand its defence ties with India and develop maritime security architecture with the Asian giant in the strategic Indian Ocean region. Australian defence minister Stephen Smith who met visiting West Bengal Governor and former National Security Advisor MK Narayanan in Sydney discussed expansion of security and defence ties with India.
A petition has been tabled in the Australian Parliament, seeking to recognise the 1984 anti-Sikh violence as a 'genocide'. The petition was moved by federal MP Warren Enstch on Thursday. Tabling the petition, Enstch said as long as the 1984 events "continue to be referred to as 'anti-Sikh riots', there can be no closure for the Sikh community."
An Australian lawmaker has tabled in parliament a petition seeking that the horrific violence that took place in November 1984 in India following the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi be recognised as genocide against the Sikh community.
An Indian-Australian taxi driver has been charged with a 'culpable driving' offence, after he sped and zig-zagged his car that had five passengers, before crashing into a pole. One of the passengers was killed on Lygon Street, Brunswick (Melbourne).
An estranged Indian-origin couple died in a mysterious house fire here on Thursday. Police said officers were attending an unrelated matter in the area when they observed a fire coming from a house in Hale Street early this morning.
A 28-year-old Indian taxi driver was on Tuesday found guilty by an Australian court of raping his inebriated female passenger last year in Brisbane. Sunveer Jassar, hailing from Punjab, was found guilty of raping the intoxicated female student in the back of his cab after driving her to an isolated area in Brisbane's city centre last year on April 12, according to The Courier Mail.
The Australian government will introduce 'label-free visa' travel arrangements for Indians from October 1, 2012, which means applicants would not need to deposit their passports for a visa stamp.
Indian-origin surgeon Dr Jayant Patel could face one of four pending Supreme Court hearings as early as November 12 in Australia. Patel, 62, was jailed on June 29, 2010 after a Supreme Court jury found him guilty of three counts of manslaughter and grievous bodily harm.
In a major relief to Indian-American surgeon Jayant Patel, accused of the manslaughter of three patients in Queensland, an Australian court on Friday granted him bail, ruling that he had been the victim of a "substantial miscarriage of justice" and ordered a re-trial.
Australian police on Tuesday announced a reward of 100,000 dollars on an Indian man who fled from the country after being accused of negligent driving that killed a pedestrian.
A young Punjabi Australian has just made history - with 19-year-old Gurinder Sandhu from Sydney named in the Australian under 19's cricket squad for the World Cup tournament to be held in Queensland next week.