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भारत से बच्चा गोद ले पाएंगे ऑस्ट्रेलिया के नागरिक?

ऑस्ट्रेलिया के न्यू साउथ वेल्स राज्य के विंडसर शहर में रहने वाली 33 साल की एलिज़ाबेथ ब्रूक और उनके 32 वर्षीय पति एडम ब्रूक इस बात से बेहद खुश हैं कि ऑस्ट्रेलिया ने भारत के साथ अडॉप्शन प्रोग्राम (गोद लेने का कार्यक्रम) दोबारा शुरू करने की सिफ़ारिश की है.

एलिज़ाबेथ जब 14 साल की थीं तब उन्हें पॉलीसिस्टिक ओवेरियन सिंड्रोम हो गया था. इस बीमारी की वजह से एलिज़ाबेथ कभी गर्भधारण नहीं कर सकतीं.

वे कहती हैं, ”इस कार्यक्रम ने हमारे लिए उम्मीद की एक नई किरण जगाई है, हम अपना परिवार शुरू करने के बारे में सोच रहे हैं.”

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English Translation: Adoption

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Ride through history, camelback

By Neena Bhandari

Broome, 29.07.2017 (The Hindu): Australia invokes images of kookaburras and cockatoos, sharks and spiders, kangaroos and koalas, but it is also home to thousands of camels.

Camels were brought into Australia from the Indian sub-continent in the 19th century for transporting material for building roads and railways, and carrying food, water, medicines and mail to the isolated and inaccessible pastoral and mining communities of the central and western regions of this arid continent.

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“I view Australia as part of Asia”, says Neil Perry

By Neena Bhandari

Sydney, 18.06.2016  (The Hindu): Neil Perry, the pioneering Australian chef, has been a defining contributor to how the world perceives Modern Australian cuisine. It is in Rockpool, his iconic fine dining restaurant located in the hub of Sydney’s financial district, that I meet him on an unusually balmy autumn afternoon.

The dining room is abuzz with men in dark suits on a business lunch, a young Korean couple perhaps on a life-changing date, an Italian family raising a toast to the parents’ 50 years of togetherness, and a group of women engaged in animated conversation, all relishing the exotic aromas wafting from their plates. The wood décor bathed in mellow light radiates warmth.

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