India
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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- Foreign relations
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
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
- Opinion
- Immigration
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
- Opinion
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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
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
- Opinion
- My happy place
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
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.
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
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- Hotel reviews
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