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#HijabRow: Where a secularist utopia ends and a divisional ghost town begins

  Despite all their tranquillity, even cemeteries have divisions: dead, reserved, overlapped and overfilled. The #hijabrow started mid-January over hijab-clad students of Pre-University College Udupi...

Indian links to a post-pandemic recovery

  Grumpy is the mood that most of Australia is in at the moment. Grumpy about the ongoing challenges with the COVID-19 virus. Grumpy about the...

Why is it okay to bend the rules?

  Like many other times during the pandemic, I recently found myself wondering about human nature and the strange, rebellious streak of rule breakers. I...

India and the Omicron juggernaut

  For the 1 million Indians in Australia, the worry levels are high about the potential spread of the Omicron variant of the COVID 19...

Why Australia must become a republic

  The Australian society takes immense pride in giving a ‘fair go’ to anyone who tries. We are all told that, as Australians, no opportunity...

Empowering girls: You CAN be what you can’t see

  There is a populist refrain for those seeking representation and equality at the highest levels: “You can’t be what you can’t see”. Educators, mentors and...

2022 through a crystal ball

  The last two years seem to have passed in a state of suspended animation - although things happened around us, there was a feeling...

WFH and a fracturing workplace culture

  There's a problem emerging in Australian workplaces that no one really wants to talk about, but many are worried about. WFH is causing substantial issues...

On the Religious Discrimination bill

  Prime Minister Scott Morrison introduced a Religious Discrimination Bill to the parliament last week. Promised by the Coalition government in the wake of the...

What ‘Hamilton’ means to this Indian-Australian

  It would seem unlikely that the story of one of America’s founding fathers would pique the interest of millions worldwide, however Hamilton, the musical,...

7 truths from COVID lockdowns

  As we head to Diwali, COVID-19 imposed restrictions are also ending in two of Australia’s largest states, and there is promise of resuming normal...

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