Ties with India must go beyond economic complementarity: Australian envoy

India and Australia have "highly complementary" economies, and both countries produce things which fit each other's interests, but the bilateral relationship needs to be deeper than that aspect, Australian envoy Philip Green said.

"We need to understand each other at a deeper level. We need to tell each other's stories and hear each other's stories," Green told PTI on the sidelines of an event hosted on Friday night on the premises of the Australian High Commission here.

Two Australians of Indian heritage, including India-born Reuben de Melo, who won "The Voice Australia" singing competition in 2024, entertained guests at the event, "Gig on the Green".

"It is a very special occasion for us. You know, we are building up a multi-faceted bilateral relationship across defence and security, across economics, across education," Green said.

The human connection that we have is a very special thing about the bilateral relationship, he said.

"There are now more than a million people of Ind