U.S. President Barack Obama and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk at the National Martin Luther King Memorial on the National Mall in Washington September 30, 2014.
U.S. President Barack Obama and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk at the National Martin Luther King Memorial on the National Mall in Washington September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
U.S. President Barack Obama and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk at the National Martin Luther King Memorial on the National Mall in Washington September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)

Indian migrants in Australia are looking forward to the visit Down Under of Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi in November. The PM will attend the G20 conference in Brisbane and address a joint session of the Australian Parliament in Canberra.

Being the first Indian PM to visit Australia since Rajiv Gandhi's 1986 trip, the 450,000 Indian community in Australia has several events lined up for their homeland's head of state.

He will address a public event on Nov 17 at the Allphones Arena in Sydney. The venue has 21,000 seats and so far, over 14,000 people have registered for the event to get free tickets. The arena is expected to be packed to the rafters and beat the 18,000 crowd number who attended Mr Modi's recent speech at the Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Those who would fail to get tickets could watch the live broadcast of the event to be aired on Indian TV channels.

The event will start at around 5:30 pm, but event organisers hinted that there would be several cultural numbers before Mr Modi delivers his talk.

"Indian-Australians have been waiting for this proud moment for the last 28 years and it could not get any better when our most beloved leader Narendra Modi-ji will address us," The Sydney Morning Herald quoted Indian Australian Community Foundation Chairman Nihal Agar.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will also host in Melbourne a banquet for his Indian counterpart during Mr Modi's four-day stay in Australia. In July, Mr Abbott went to India, making their Brisbane meeting their second in just three months.

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In January, Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb will lead a group of business leaders to India to participate in the Australian Business Week in India and further boost commercial ties between Delhi and Canberra which signed recently a uranium export agreement.