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Is this Aussie comedy film racist? Its director doesn’t think so

There are plenty of people who think the last great Australian comedy was Crocodile Dundee – and filmmaker Tony Rogers might just be among them.

  • Karl Quinn

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The blossoming relationship between Narendra Modi and Anthony Albanese has sparked concerns Australia is staying silent on human rights issues.

Modi wants Australia’s uranium to power India’s data centre boom

Australia and India struck a historic deal to allow uranium exports in 2014, but there have been only negligible shipments since. That might be about to change.

  • Matthew Knott
Tributes are flowing for Melbourne teacher Sunil Sharma, whose death has been confirmed in India.

Melbourne maths teacher drugged, bashed with baseball bat, then dumped in canal, say Indian police

Police in the city of Amritsar have accused Sunil Sharma’s brother of murdering the Melbourne teacher over a property dispute.

  • Alexander Darling and Rachael Ward
GIF: Sydney Diwali festival 2025

India is now Australia’s No.1 source of migrants. It’s a profound shift, and a positive one

As immigration is blamed by some for everything from fraying social cohesion to housing shortages, it’s instructive to see how migrants are pulling their weight in modern Australia.

  • Nikhil Kulkarni
Illustration by Dionne Gain

Young people are revolting. India’s ‘cockroach’ campaign is just the latest example

Powerful Asian leaders like Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping are preoccupied by the prospect of young people upsetting the social order. They have legitimate cause for concern.

  • Peter Hartcher
Australia’s Indian diaspora is part of a much larger network.

Young, smart, driven: the dynamic global movement growing in power and influence

Members of the Indian diaspora are rising to the top of business and politics, and its Australian connections are only getting stronger.

  • Matt Wade
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One of the world’s most ancient cities, the 3,000-year-old Varanasi is the spiritual capital of India.

I’ve never felt more alive than in this astonishing city of the dead

If happiness is defined as “the state of pleasurable contentment of mind” then this ancient city, for all of its horrors and delights, is my unlikely happy place.

  • Anthony Dennis
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre) waves to supporters celebrating the BJP’s victory in the recently held state assembly elections.

The world’s biggest democracy is about to become a one-party state

Despite economic headwinds, election defeats for two major rivals this week have left India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi looking increasingly unassailable.

  • Alex Travelli, Hari Kumar and Pragati K.B.
Dancers wait to perform at a Diwali Festival in Blacktown, NSW. Australia’s Indian community is part of a global diaspora numbering 35 million

India pips England to become Australia’s top overseas country of birth

The overseas-born share of the national population has climbed to 32 per cent – the highest since 1891.

  • Matt Wade
It looks like a 17th-century Mughal pleasure pavilion, yet the hotel is barely a decade old.

This ancient palace hotel is not ancient at all

This beautiful property combines the modern virtues of reliable plumbing and comfortable beds with the architecture and atmospherics of a palace.

  • Michael Gebicki