Applications are now open for the 2024 Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program. The CHG program offers cash grants of up to $20,000 to community organisations. The grants support organisations to preserve and manage collections that have Australian cultural and historical significance. The CHG program is celebrating 30 years this year. Since it was first run […]
Parramatta Aquatic Centre (PAC) has cemented itself as the best place to swim, train or relax in Western Sydney with more than 300,000 visits to the facility in its first five months of operation. Since opening on September 25 last year, the $88.6 million swimming, fitness and wellness hub has seen more than 20,000 attend […]
By Nasim Yousaf “[Translation] After several centuries, we are again giving this lesson to every Muslim woman that the very existence and bringing up…of humankind is because of you…so is the life of a nation and Ummah also based on your commandment…” – Allama Mashriqi (“Quol-e-Faisal”, 1935) The Khaksar Movement, led by Allama Mashriqi, with […]
At the National Indigenous Cricket Championships (NICC), the NSW women’s team opening batter, a Wiradjuri woman, had travelled to Alice Springs last week thinking she would simply have fun playing cricket and meet her teammates. Dharmini Chauhan, 22, had missed three editions of the NICC due to Covid-19 and her new job last year. This […]
Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival, Australia’s leading contemporary arts festival engaging with Asia, has been shortlisted for Creative Australia’s inaugural Asia Pacific Arts Awards, celebrating cultural exchanges and collaborative partnerships in the Asia Pacific region. Chosen by an independent panel of Industry Advisors, OzAsia Festival has been shortlisted in the Connect category, for delivering an […]