LifeIn Australia, multicultural means multireligious
Traditional churches in decline amid rise of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism
A Sikh band plays during the Anzac Day March in Sydney in April 2018. There are about 210,000 adherents of the Sikh religion in Australia today, compared with just 12,000 25 years ago. (Getty Images)
GEOFF HISCOCK, Contributing writer
September 23, 2022 08:00 JST
SYDNEY -- For more than 50 years, motorists on the Pacific Highway between Australia's east coast cities of Sydney and Brisbane gained a glimpse of a minority culture when they passed the distinctive white domes of the Guru Nanak Gurdwara (Temple on the Hill) at Woolgoolga, a small beachside town that is home to a large Sikh community.