India
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Australia is a beacon of multiculturalism. How did it lose its humanity?
It’s horrifying to see the ease with which leaders propose sending Australians to Christmas Island to quarantine at a detention centre so awful it’s meant to deter asylum seekers.
- by Latika Bourke
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Australian resident dies in COVID-ravaged India as country’s death toll soars
A Sydney woman said her father died from COVID-19 in India after being “abandoned” by the Australian government.
- by Carrie Fellner and Nigel Gladstone
Analysis
Coronavirus pandemic
India ban has shamed Liberals, but not enough for many to speak out against it
The decision to make it a criminal offence for Australians to try to return home from India has shamed Coalition MPs, but they fear speaking out against it.
- by Rob Harris
Opinion
Federal politics
The race card just doesn’t stack up in Australia
Indians are Australia’s second-largest overseas-born community. If he wants to get re-elected, Prime Minister Scott Morrison better hope that the 720,000 migrants have short memories.
- by George Megalogenis
‘Who is responsible for our deaths?’ The rage and sorrow of Indian Australians
The escalating coronavirus crisis in India is causing heartbreak for many Australian families.
- by Melissa Cunningham
NSW, Victoria and Queensland will take India flights as children left stranded
There are 173 Australian children stuck in India without their parents, and they are the top priority as six flights are planned for the remainder of May.
- by Rachel Clun
McGowan moves to permanently reduce WA’s overseas traveller intake
WA recorded no new local cases of coronavirus on Friday as it prepared to ease mask and crowd restrictions.
- by Heather McNeill
‘Eleven months of misery’: Australians reveal emotional, financial toll of being stranded in India
One Melbourne man told a parliamentary committee he fears for his life, while a woman said she had to start cancer treatment in India because she could not get a flight home.
- by Rachel Clun
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Coronavirus pandemic
Repatriation flights from India to resume on May 15, Prime Minister says
More than 1000 people expected to return through Darwin’s Howard Springs facility by the end of June.
- by Rachel Clun
Free beer offered as US vaccine drive turns to bribes
The United States is running out of people willing to get vaccinated, forcing governments and businesses to deploy unusual techniques to sway the hesitant.
- by Matthew Knott
Financial giants caught up in India’s brutal pandemic wave
About 13,000 kilometres east of Wall Street, on a stretch of Bangalore’s Outer Ring Road, sits what was once the heart of the global financial industry’s back office.
- by Saritha Rai