NSW infrastructure

Billion dollar boost for regional NSW

NSW Government will invest in transport, energy, water and projects that turbocharge regional economies Regional NSW will receive record investment under the NSW Government’s $1.3 billion Regional Growth Fund, announced in the... Read more »
Australia's Social cohesion and multiculturalism stronger than ever

Australian multicultural communities to benefit from $23 million

The 2017-18 NSW Budget provides increased support for Community Language Schools and continues the important work in our diverse communities, Minister for Multiculturalism Ray Williams announced. “This budget confirms the NSW Government... Read more »
Tesla Powerpack

Tesla wins contract with Australian electric grid to bring more sustainable power

Tesla Wins Contract With Transgrid to deploy Powerpacks across several sites in Australia Tesla has won a contract with Transgrid, the company that operates the New South Wales (NSW) portion of Australia’s... Read more »
Chand Raat Eid Festival 2017 Australia

Chand Raat Eid Festival is a joyous opportunity to celebrate our various cultural and religious traditions says Australian PM Hon Malcolm Turnbull

Sydney (Tribune International); On the prestigious occasion of annual festivity of ending of Ramadan and celebrations of Eid-ul-Fitre, Australian Prime Minister Hon Malcolm Turnbull has released the following message for Chand Raat... Read more »
Justice Minister Michael Keenan (right) examines a range of weapons after announcing a new national gun amnesty in Canberra today. Picture: AAP

Australia announces three-month gun amnesty to combat terrorism

National Firearms Amnesty starts on July 1 Australia to hold first nationwide gun amnesty for 21 years. The National Firearms Amnesty will commence on July 1, giving Australians an opportunity to hand... Read more »
Telstra

Australia’s Telstra says will cut 1,400 jobs in cost-cutting drive

Telstra has confirmed it will cut 1,400 jobs within Australia as part of a cost-cutting initiative. Australia’s largest telecommunications and media company, Telstra Corporation Ltd, will shed about 1,400 jobs as part... Read more »
A view of facilities at the Manus Island Regional Processing Facility in Papua New Guinea in 2012. For years, the facility has been used to indefinitely detain asylum-seekers; Australia and Papua New Guinea have now agreed to close it. Photo: Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship via Getty Images

Australia agrees to pay A$70 million to Manus Island refugees

The Australian government has offered compensation totalling A$70m (US$53m) to refugees detained in Papua New Guinea. The Australian government has agreed to pay detainees on Manus Island more than $70 million (US$53... Read more »
The Hermitage Gledswood Hills developed by Sekisui House

Greenfield Housing Code to make NSW suburbs greener

Greenfield Housing Code to ensure that new residential suburbs were leafier and more environmentally friendly A proposed new Greenfield Housing Code will increase housing supply by making it easier and greener to... Read more »
Vivid Sydney 2017, Sydney Opera House, Lighting of The Sails Audio Creatures 24/5/2017 Photo James Horan

Sydney lights up for annual Vivid Sydney Festival 2017

Sydney lights up with spectacular display of colour and creativity A brilliant array of colour, music and creativity will shine upon Sydney for the next 23 nights as the world’s largest festival... Read more »
Mehreen Ahmad, a Pakistani national, studying in Perth, was found unconscious in a stairwell in a Murray Street apartment

Pakistani student Mehreen Ahmad bashed, left in a pool of blood in Perth

Mehreen Ahmad was found unconscious on Saturday in a pool of her blood Mehreen Ahmad, a Pakistani national, studying in Perth, was found unconscious in a stairwell in a Murray Street apartment... Read more »
Queenslander Francesco Enrico Marchetti climbing Kala Pathar in Khumbu, Nepal. Facebook photo: Francesco Marchetti

Australian climber Francesco Marchetti dies on Mount Everest

An Australian man has died while descending Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. He died of suspected altitude sickness while trying to reach the summit of Mount Everest on Sunday. The 54-year-old Queenslander,... Read more »
water

Hunter’s first Water Education Centre launched

Minister for Energy and Utilities Don Harwin officially opened the $1 million Hunter Water Centre for Education and announced it is free for local school tours. Minister Harwin said the region’s first... Read more »
Darling Square Sydney

Approval of Darling Square to transform Sydney

The NSW Government has approved a plan to beautify and provide greatly improved facilities at the site of the former Entertainment Centre site, known as Darling Square, which is the final piece... Read more »
fire and rescue nsw

Fire and Rescue NSW opens news state-of-the-art headquarters

The Minister for Emergency Services Troy Grant today officially opened the new $23 million Fire & Rescue NSW (FRNSW) headquarters in Greenacre. Mr Grant said the official opening ushered in a new... Read more »
Campbell stores from 1820's

Iconic Rocks site gets $32 million upgrade

The landmark Campbell’s Stores at The Rocks, an 1840s State heritage listed warehouse, is set to undergo a $32 million upgrade, following approval from the NSW Government. Minister for Finance, Services and... Read more »

Toyota’s investment in Western Sydney to create hundreds of jobs

The approval of a warehouse and distribution facility for spare parts for Toyota Australia at Kemps Creek could mean about 200 jobs for the area, Minister for Planning and Housing, Anthony Roberts... Read more »
L-R Transport minister Andrew Constance, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Rodd Staples program director for Sydney Metro pictured at the Windsor Rd Bridge construction site for Sydney Metro at Rouse Hill on May 8, 2017 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Ben Rushton/Fairfax Media)

Skytrain bridge brings Sydney Metro a step closer

The metro rail line to Sydney’s north-west is one step closer to completion with the unveiling of a “mini-Anzac Bridge” over Windsor Road at Rouse Hill. The deck of the landmark Sydney... Read more »

Australian Global Alumni Network expands in Pakistan

16,000 Pakistani scholars enrolled in Australia Universities ISLAMABAD — Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Margaret Adamson has welcomed the expansion of Australia’s Global Alumni Network in Pakistan. Recently launched by Australian Foreign... Read more »
Big Red Kidney Bus embarks on NSW Holiday Tour

Big Red Kidney Bus embarks on NSW Holiday Tour 

Patients living with kidney failure can now plan holidays without the worry of missing life-saving treatment, with the launch of the first mobile dialysis service in a bus. Health Minister Brad Hazzard... Read more »
Mrs Margaret Anne Adamson, High Commissioner Australia, called on General Zubair Mahmood Hayat, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJSC) at Joint Staff Headquarters, Rawalpindi on April 26, 2017

Australian Envoy discusses security and defence with Pakistan’s Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

Australian High Commissioner acknowledged sacrifices of Pakistan in the war against terrorism. H.E Mrs Margaret Anne Adamson, High Commissioner Australia, called on General Zubair Mahmood Hayat, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee... Read more »
Australian citizenship

Australia abolishes 457 immigration work visas to ‘put Australians first’

“We’ll no longer let 457 visas be passports to jobs that could and should go to Australians” says Turnbull The Turnbull government has cracked down on foreign worker visas and adopted an... Read more »
safe school

NSW drops Safe Schools program, to be replaced by new anti-bullying plan

The NSW government has announced it will replace the Safe Schools Coalition program with a new anti-bullying strategy. Three years after it was launched by the Abbott government, the insidious Safe Schools... Read more »
Blacktown Hospital

NSW’s Blacktown Hospital will have “the best of the best” health care

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says Blacktown Hospital will have “the best of the best” Blacktown will have “the best of the best” health care according to NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard.... Read more »

Pakistani man stabbed to death by two teenagers in Queanbeyan, NSW

Pakistani-Australian community in shock as Pakistan student and worker stabbed to death by two young radicalised boys SYDNEY – A Pakistani student has been stabbed to death possibly by two Australian teenage boys,... Read more »