New Delhi/Melbourne, Jan 3 (IANS) Strongly condemning the fatal stabbing of an Indian student in Melbourne, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Sunday warned Australia that if such attacks continue, India will be forced to look ‘for other ways’ to address the situation.
In a statement, Krishna condemned the knife attack on Nitin Garg, a 21-year-old student, [...]
Melbourne, Jan 3 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has penned a children’s book which follows the adventure of his pet dog and cat.
Described by his staff as “more secretive than the Budget”, the adventure story for charity will be published this month.
The book titled Jasper and Abby and the Great Australia Day [...]
Sydney, Jan 3 (ANI): Prime Minister Kevin Rudd welcomed the Pakistani and Australian team for a lunch at the Kirribilli House ahead of the Test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, and asked jokingly for the birth certificate of Pak teen sensation Mohammad Aamer after his five wicket haul against Australia.
The Prime Minister took [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 28 (ANI): Cricket Australia’s newly launched campaign ‘Know When to Declare’ – aimed at responsible drinking – matched Aussie captain Ricky Ponting’s state of mind on Sunday who finally declared the innings at 5 for 454.
The score was the smallest total he had ever declared [...]
Melbourne, Dec 25 (IANS) Australia’s hope to bid for the 2018 and the 2022 FIFA World Cup received a boost with the government saying that it will control the key elements of the bid and establishing a taskforce to sort out problems that have dogged Australia’s push to host the largest event in world sport
Minister [...]
Melbourne, Dec.13 (ANI): Developing countries like India and China could force Australia to pay a hefty sum to enable them to cope with climate change in return for a deal in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Though Australia faces a budget deficit of about [...]
Melbourne, Dec.9 (ANI): Victorian Premier John Brumby, it seems, is too busy to meet the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
The latter addressed Victorian politicians at a reception at parliament house on Wednesday, but Brumby was noticeably absent, reports The Australian.
The Dalai Lama spoke to over 100 people on Wednesday in a private address [...]
Canberra (Australia), Dec.2 (ANI): Muslim representative bodies across the world, and particularly in Australia, have reacted angrily to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s ‘adjust or leave Australia’ remark, saying the comment was prejudicial to their community and uncalled for.
Rudd had said that Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law should get out of [...]
Sydney, November 30 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has described himself as a ” complete classical nerd”.
In an interview, the premier said that he’s a a “garden-variety Christian” who wants to be remembered as the “bloke (who) made a difference”.
“The best way to describe me is a complete classical nerd,” the Sydney Morning Herald [...]
Adelaide, Nov. 24 (ANI): The Premier of South Australia, Mike Rann, has been challenged by a former parliament barmaid to take a lie detector test after he strongly denied having had sex with her.
Michelle Chantelois called Rann sleazy, while he insisted their relationship was flirty.
“If he wants to take a lie detector test, [...]
London, Nov 16 (IANS) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to follow the example set by his Australian counterpart who has formally apologised for his countrymen’s physical and mental abuse of half a million children, including thousands of foreigners, for over four decades.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Sunday apologised to the so-called Forgotten Australians – some [...]
New Delhi, Nov.14 (ANI): Rotary Australia has taken on Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for apparently promising barbecues to Indian students in his country while on a visit to Indian capital New Delhi, saying barbecues were not an ideal welcoming gesture as most Indians are vegetarian.
Rudd’s reported announcement came moments before Thursday’s press conference here [...]
New Delhi, Nov.13 (ANI): The Governments of India and Australia on Thursday announced a committment to a Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation, which they said would strengthen cooperation in a wide range of security and related areas, including counter-terrorism, defence, disarmament and non-proliferation and maritime security.
After bilateral discussions at Hyderabad House here, the Prime Ministers [...]
New Delhi, Nov.13 (ANI): India and Australia on Thursday agreed that there was a need for building a broad knowledge partnership, ranging from developing collaborative projects in education from primary school up to university, to conducting joint research in many fields. Science and technology cooperation is a critical part of this partnership.
According to a [...]
New Delhi, Nov.13 (ANI): India and Australia have reiterated their determination and committment to work for comprehensive outcome at Copenhagen Climate Change conference to be held next month.
Describing energy security and climate change as serious challenges facing the international community, the Prime Ministers’ of the two countries-Dr. Manmohan Singh and Kevin Rudd-said that the [...]
New Delhi, Nov.13 (ANI): Following bilateral discussions here on Thursday evening, the Prime Ministers’ of India and Australia-Dr. Manmohan Singh and Kevin Rudd-have agreed to take the relationship to the level of a strategic partnership and to intensify their contacts with each other.
Both Dr Singh and Rudd agreed that India and Australia are two [...]
Moscow, Nov 13 (RIA Novosti) An Australian Army sniffer dog has been found alive and well after spending 14 months in the Afghan desert, media reports said.
Sabi, a four-year-old black Labrador, went missing during a clash between Australian troops and Afghan militants in September 2008, and was since officially listed as ‘missing in action’. Nine [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) Australia Thursday again assured India that ‘full force of law’ would be used to protect Indian students in that country, and sought to move ties beyond the students’ controversy and uranium sale to a wide-ranging strategic and economic partnership.
Underlining that its position of not selling uranium to countries which have [...]
New Delhi, Nov.12 (ANI): India on Thursday conveyed its concern over the racial attacks on Indian students and other members of the community in Australia and stressed upon the need to strengthen the regulatory measures for their safety and security.
“More than [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) Allaying India’s concerns over attacks on Indian students in his country, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Thursday underlined that such ‘criminal attacks’ would not be tolerated and assured that his government was doing ‘everything possible’ to ensure their safety.
‘As prime minister of Australia, I am deeply disturbed and disgusted by [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) Emphasising that its position of not selling uranium to countries that have not signed the NPT is not directed against India, Australia Thursday kept the door open by saying it looked forward to the day when New Delhi’s nuclear programme can include Australian uranium.
‘I appreciate that there is one aspect [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s wife Therese Rein laid a wreath at the India Gate memorial to the ‘unknown soldier’ Thursday, becoming first foreign female dignitary not holding an office to do so, an official said here.
‘Both the prime minister (Kevin Rudd) and his wife laid a wreath at the [...]
New Delhi, Nov.12 (ANI): Visiting Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Thursday described the relationship between his country and India as one that was growing fast in the 21st century, and that every effort must be availed to take [...]
New Delhi, Nov.12 (ANI): Describing the recent racial attacks on Indian students down under as ‘disgusting’, visiting Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Thursday said the attacks has left him deeply disturbed.
“I am deeply disturbed and disgusted by attacks on Indian in Australia,” Rudd said.
Rudd, [...]
New Delhi, Nov.12 (ANI): Australia’s First Lady and wife of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Therese Rein, on Thursday became the first head of government’s wife to lay a wreath at the India Gate memorial to the “Unknown Soldier”.
The memorial, which is also known as the “Amar Jawan [...]
New Delhi, Nov.12 (ANI): Visiting Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made it clear that he will not buckle on Australia’s refusal to sell uranium to India just hours ahead of a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Rudd [...]
New Delhi, Nov.12 (ANI): Placing emphasis on the central role that business plays in elevating bilateral partnerships between two countries, visiting Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Thursday told captains of Indian industry at the Taj Mahal Hotel here that both Australia and India share common commercial interests.
Business partnerships, he said demonstrate the power of [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) Despite concerns over the falling US dollar, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Thursday said his country would continue to support the currency.
‘The US dollar will provide stability,’ Rudd, currently visiting India, said here while interacting with reporters and business leaders.
Asked whether Australia would support a common currency for the [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) Australia Thursday decided to scale up its collaboration with India in science and research by pledging over $70 million in areas straddling energy, agriculture and environment.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that his government would invest $50 million for the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund; $1 million for an innovative joint [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) A day after India reiterated its concerns over recent attacks on students from here down under, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Thursday said they were welcome guests in his country.
‘Indian students are welcome guests in Australia. They are important for the Australian economy and we want them to stay amicably [...]
