“India is a key strategic partner,” Albanese told Parliament. Australian efforts to improve trade relations with India have gained urgency in recent years as Beijing has imposed restrictions on certain Australian products. India is Australia’s sixth largest trading partner, with the two-way exchange of goods and services valued at 46.5 billion Australian dollars ($31 billion) last year.Īustralia is eager to increase trade with India as a means of diversifying from China, Australia’s biggest trading partner. They discussed enhancing cooperation in the areas of commerce and investment, defence and security, renewable energy, green hydrogen, vital minerals, education, migration and mobility, and interpersonal ties as they signed multiple memoranda of understanding. This morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Albanese met separately to discuss ways to advance relations between India and Australia. “Prime Minister Modi is the Boss,” Albanese added, using Springsteen’s nickname. “The last time I saw someone on the stage here was Bruce Springsteen and he didn’t get the welcome that Prime Minister Modi has got,” Albanese told the capacity crowd. rock star Bruce Springsteen at the same venue.
Modi shared the stage with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who compared the reception by the primarily Indian crowd at Qudos Bank Arena to a concert by U.S. Indian PM Modi was welcomed by around 20,000 cheering fans, many chanting “Modi,” at a Sydney stadium on Tuesday during his second visit to Australia as his country’s leader, according to Associated Press. PM Modi’s rockstar treatment in Australia According to the article, Wednesday night’s sail illumination will be paid for by the Australian federal government.Īlso read: Why Narendra Modi uses his PR genius in India and abroad: Four good reasons The crowning of the king, according to the prime minister, was honoured in Canberra with other suitable demonstrations. I was in the UK so I wasn’t a party to any of those decisions,” Albanese was quoted as saying by 2GB. “It wasn’t our decision about the King’s Coronation, state governments took various decisions around the country. “I have got no interest in antagonising people that believe in the monarchy, people who are royalists - of course not - but obviously I have got to be careful about where I spend their money,” he said.Įarlier this month, during his conversation with Chris O’Keefe of 2GB. The New South Wales premier said he would not apologise to those disappointed by the decision.
“The event was not taking place in Sydney, it was taking place in London,” Minns said, adding, “Of course, I respect the new king but I am mindful of where and when we spend taxpayer money.”
People had many places to mark the coronation including on television, he told Sydney’s 2GB radio. The premier said the building’s sails had been illuminated 70 times last year - compared with 23 times a decade earlier - at an estimated cost of AUS $80,000-100,000 ($54,000-67,000 or Rs 44-54 lakh) for each occasion. “I would like to keep it for Australia and Australians and moments of sacrifice and heroism for the country, or when there’s an important international event in Sydney,” Minns told a radio interviewer on Monday. New South Wales state premier Chris Minns said he had cancelled his predecessors’ plans to light up the building for King Charles. He made the choice based on the cost to the taxpayer. APĪlso read: The row over Sydney Opera House’s decision to not light up for coronationĪccording to AFP, the Australian state of New South Wales’s premier Chris Minns received criticism earlier this month for choosing not to set sail for the king’s coronation. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are photographed in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge illuminated in the colours of the Indian flag in Sydney. Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, who hosted a Group of Seven summit last week, later cancelled his Australia trip as well. It should be noted here that PM Modi is the only leader of the so-called Quad nations to continue with his scheduled visit to Australia after US president Joe Biden pulled out of a planned meeting of the group in Sydney to return to Washington to focus on debt limit talks. The tricolour was last displayed on the Opera House’s sails in August of last year to mark the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence. #WATCH | The Sydney Harbour and Opera House light up in the colours of India’s national flag ahead of PM visit.
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