{"id":786987,"date":"2026-07-08T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786987\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:04:10","slug":"modis-2026-visit-to-australia-in-conversation-with-tim-watts-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786987\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi\u2019s 2026 Visit to Australia: In Conversation with Tim Watts MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi\u2019s visit to Australia this week, CEO Lisa Singh joins Australian parliamentarian Tim Watts MP, Special Envoy for Indian Ocean Affairs, for the latest episode of Chats Over Chai.<\/p>\n<p>The pair unpack the opportunities in the bilateral relationship, six years into the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and the role of the Indian diaspora for Australia India ties. They also discuss a new parliamentary report following an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chooseasia.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inquiry on Asia Capability that Tim Watts<\/a> chaired, exploring how the pipeline in Asia literacy can be addressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi\u2019s visit to Australia this week, CEO Lisa Singh joins Australian parliamentarian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-786987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}