Melbourne: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Melbourne on the evening of July 8, 2026 (local time), kicking off the Australia leg of his three-nation Indo-Pacific tour that also includes Indonesia and New Zealand, The the two-day state visit from July 8 to 10 is centred on the India–Australia Annual Leaders’ Summit with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and a major diaspora event billed as “Melbourne Meets Modi”, the MEA said.
On Thursday, July 9, he is co-chairing the third India–Australia Annual Leaders’ Summit with Albanese, calling on Governor-General Sam Mostyn, participating in the India–Australia CEOs Forum, and addressing a large community gathering at Marvel Stadium in Docklands that organisers expect to draw tens of thousands of Indian-Australians, before departing for Auckland to continue the tour with a historic state visit to New Zealand at the invitation of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
The summit is widely expected to deliver a commercial uranium supply agreement that builds on the 2014–15 civil nuclear cooperation framework, which has so far seen only minimal shipments, while also advancing cooperation on critical minerals, defence and security in the Indo-Pacific, clean energy and technology partnerships, and broader trade and investment under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, with Albanese describing ties with India as “never been more consequential” ahead of the visit. Ahead of the trip, Australian Federal Police opened an investigation into an online death threat allegedly directed at Modi, with reports indicating that investigators have traced the suspect’s IP address and that security arrangements for the Melbourne events have been adjusted accordingly, underscoring the high-profile nature of a visit that for India is about locking in energy security through uranium for nuclear power, deepening defence and technology ties, and energising a diaspora that is central to people-to-people links, and for
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