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SYDNEY Cheap FC Barcelona Jerseys , Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Australia-India Roundtable, a critical informal dialogue between the two countries, kicks off Monday in Sydney and comes at a strategic crossroads for the bilateral relationship, strained by recent controversies from accusations of racism to a stand-off over divergent nuclear policies.


A high-level delegation of Indian officials will visit Australia for the talks, led by the Secretary (East) of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs Cheap Chelsea FC Jerseys , Ambassador Anil Wadhwa.


Despite inheriting shared cultural values as Commonwealth nations, Australia and India have endured a rocky diplomatic path over recent years, inflamed by high-profile attacks on Indian students in Melbourne in 2011 and from Australia's refusal to export uranium to the non-aligned nuclear state.


The relationship hit a low point under Kevin Rudd's government in 2007 after the Labor leader refused to sell uranium to India for its status outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. While that decision was reversed by Rudd's successor Julia Gillard, the lingering taste has ensured frosty relations ever since.


However, Australia's Indian-born community has more than doubled between 2004 and 2009 to over 300 Cheap Atletico Madrid FC Jerseys ,000, making it the second largest non-European group in Australia after Chinese-born Australians and a shared passion for cricket has kept the social and cultural connections tight.


The dialogue will begin Monday, at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney, and continue on Thursday February 6 at the Australia-India Institute in Melbourne.


"These frank and creative discussions will be a chance to consolidate one of Australia's key strategic relationships in the Indo-Pacific region," said the Australian chair of the dialogue Cheap AS Roma FC Jerseys , Rory Medcalf, the director of the international security program at the Lowy Institute.


His Indian Co-Chair, Dr C. Raja Mohan, nonresident Lowy Institute Fellow, said "The engagement with Australia is one of India's fastest growing and most significant bilateral partnerships and has the potential to contribute to stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific at a time of great uncertainty in the relations among China Cheap Arsenal FC Jerseys , Japan and the United States