While sport is the main drawcard, people also attend this weekend's Griffith Sikh Games to celebrate culture and food, with event organisers this year trucking in two tonnes of onions, three tonnes of flour and 700 litres of milk.
About 15,000 people are converging on a regional Australian town for one of the country's most popular Sikh sporting events, but with food a central ingredient to the cultural event, a mammoth effort is underway to feed everybody … for free.
Griffith City councillor and event organiser Manjit Lally said that was made possible due to the support and donations from Sikh communities across the country. "They started it 26 years ago and the community started getting here in remembrance of all the martyrdom, which we call Shaheeds," Mr Singh said."We got more than 700 litres [of milk] for today [and] we cook around 700 bread packets.""All the human beings, we are one family, the Australian family," Mr Singh said.Kamal Maan travelled from Melbourne to attend the Sikh Games but originally came from Punjab, northern India.