Student allegedly jailed in China for six years after taking part in pro-democracy protests in Australia Exclusive: The Australian government has been urged to take stronger action to protect overseas students from political repression

New from me: a Chinese student at University of Sydney went missing and allegedly has been sentenced to six years in China, for participating in protests in Australia, including solidarity protests for China’s ethnic minority groups:

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How craft beer is changing China, one schooner at a time On a midsummer night last year, I took a sip of lager at a craft beer pub in my hometown in China's south. But this was not just a beer. It was a cultural symbol that shows just how much China's gen Z...

New from me for ABC News on a rare shared interest between Australia and China:
a pint of good craft beer.

…and what we can learn about the actual economic situation in China right now, as well as how young Chinese people respond to it.

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我搞了个中文播客，专门讲澳洲生活，现在出了第二集，讲租房，也浅谈了房屋危机的问题，欢迎订阅！

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Australia refuses to say how many Chinese nationals are arriving by boat, saying it may damage bilateral relations Exclusive: Indonesia reports growing number of attempts by Chinese nationals to organise boat journeys, as Australian authorities refuse to reveal details

This is a substantial story from @wingkuang.bsky.social - one the Murdoch mullahs of angertainment will flock to for a distraction that ticks many of their culture wars.

A crackdown on the Darian Gap has pushed many people fleeing China to turn to Australia.
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Australia refuses to say how many Chinese nationals are arriving by boat, saying it may damage bilateral relations Exclusive: Indonesia reports growing number of attempts by Chinese nationals to organise boat journeys, as Australian authorities refuse to reveal details

Exclusive from me: Australia refuses to reveal how many Chinese nationals have reached Australia by boat since 2024 citing damage to bilateral relations, but public records in Indonesia show many Chinese have tried to arrive by boat — but failed:

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好的！你还会组团去玩吗下半年？我在等护照！感觉下半年可以报名你的出国团了！

你去墨尔本啦？下次来找你

Taiwanese Indigenous dance at Women's Asian Cup briefly cancelled, politician claims A Taiwanese Indigenous dance performance was reinstated before the Taiwan-China football quarter final on Saturday, after diplomats intervened.

Scoop by me:

Taiwanese Indigenous dance at Women's Asian Cup briefly cancelled, politician claims
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State Capture or Mind Capture? China's Spy Strategy on 3 Continents - The Little Red Podcast Britain is the latest country to be plunged into yet another espionage scandal after an MP’s husband was arrested on suspicion of spying for China. Beijing’s long been known for its ‘thousand grains o...

We have a very timely episode for you at the Little Red Podcast:

State Capture or Mind Capture? China's Spy Strategy on 3 Continents

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I’m an Australian now!!!

putting politics aside, it’s very impressive that Ted O’Brien speaks such fluent Mandarin.

'I want to taste everything': Why millions of people make this annual pilgrimage As many Asians living in Australia return to their ancestral homes for Lunar New Year, what awaits them can be surprising.

A very cute piece I did for @SBSNews this Lunar New Year - on first-Gen migrants heading back to Asia for LNY and experiencing culture shock

'I want to taste everything': Why millions of people make this annual pilgrimage
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How to set boundaries and manage family expectations during Lunar New Year From dinner-table arguments to loneliness, experts weigh in on some of the challenges families can face during the Lunar New Year.

New from me, and omg look at this great lead image from SBS graphic design team:

How to set boundaries and manage family expectations during Lunar New Year

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'Are we holding creepy men to account?': The loopholes in image-based abuse laws Lawmakers around the world are trying to stamp out image-based abuse, but ubiquitous and evolving technologies make regulation difficult.

NEW from me:

Lawmakers around the world are trying to stamp out image-based abuse, but ubiquitous and evolving technologies make regulation difficult.

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Like idk, Ofc hiring managers want cheap but good labour, but if AI is replacing early career jobs, and so managers only want 10yr+ experienced people, where should people like us (5-9yrs) to go? Should we just disappear?

In 2025 I ran for two jobs that said they were for early career/fresh grads. One said I was overqualified and not fresh grad enough (which is fair, and good on them for keeping the criterion).

The other one hired a journo with 10yr+ experience. WTF.

Why has China introduced new tariffs on Australian beef? An expert says the impact of China's new tariff is "hard to assess", but Australian exporters may have found their way out.

New from me: how a group of angry Chinese farmers spent a year and finally succeeded in getting Beijing to implement tariffs on Australian beef:
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Veronica’s shop was targeted by racist hate. This is how her community responded CCTV footage shows two men placing a placard in front of the pharmacy that read: “No Asian slum-city in St Marys.”

Great detail in this story: no police looked into the racist poster until someone working in public health (and hence understand the bureaucratic system) took it to police multicultural liaison officer, and they did probe into it and actually found the suspects:

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'Different blind spots': Where are the gaps in Australia's gun laws? The Bondi Beach massacre has renewed focus on Australia's gun laws, nearly three decades after the Port Arthur reforms.

New from me on the latest discussion on gun law reform following the Bondi terror attack:

'Different blind spots': Where are the gaps in Australia's gun laws?
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Approaching 30 as a Chinese means in your group chat where every else is above 30, you don’t share reels about Xmas, but tips from Fengshui guys on what to watch out for in 2026

Confronting university harassment: ‘You’re dumb, but you’re a pretty girl’ Sitting in my mandatory coding workshop, I felt a spray on the back of my neck. As the thick smell of men’s deodorant spread and sank into my clothes, I saw my tutor slip the can back into his bag bef...

Give this piece a read pls. And thanks to the author for speaking up!

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a kermit the frog is dancing in a living room . ALT: a kermit the frog is dancing in a living room .

Finally!!!! I passed the certification test for Chinese to English!!! That means I can now produce court-qualified translation for Chinese and English!!

Are you looking for a journo who can do investigation AND certified translation? Now you know who you can talk to 👀

Please please please report this story just like how you will do with Robodebt; with disaster recovery; with your typical approach to government negligence. Otherwise you are doing what chinesr state media is doing right now: phrasing it as a culture war btw HK and China.

The whole China-HK distinction is just part of the implication of the event, but that’s NOT what people are concerning. They are questioning about if there’s negligence. Get the facts right before you publish analysis to suggest there’s a culture war.

Because it explains why so many chinese mainlanders, esp those who observed/took part in White Paper protests in 2022, are triggered by this incident, because White Paper also started with a fire in Urumqi where gov locked up the building for Covid-zero.

But it’s because so far besides the arrests, theres no gov response to if theres negligence on residents’ complaint around safety issues 12 months ago. They are concerning if bamboo scaffolding is used to cover up alleged government negligence.

This is important to distinguish…

I’ve been monitoring online discussions from Hong Kong about why HKers consider blaming bamboo scaffolding is a gov spin, and I think many AUS media have got it WRONG.

They think it’s a spin NOT because they see bamboo scaffolding as a tradition that distinguishes HK from China.

I actually have a list called “the managers and editors who I will work for free for a year, if one day they decide to launch their own companies/outlets”, for how they have stood up for me in the past

Lanlan Yang pleads not guilty to all charges over crash of $1.5m Rolls Royce SUV in Sydney’s east Lanlan Yang’s case has attracted attention from Chinese Australian community and on social media due to her lavish wealth and speculation about her background

Thanks Guardian for letting me try court reporting this year…and look like more on the way next year…

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Engineer. Teacher. Postie: The neo-Nazis who rallied in Sydney Those who gathered on Saturday include a personal trainer, an English-as-a-second-language teacher and a former bar manager who is facing DV charges.

So basically some of them earn their income from migrants, and some of them are migrants too

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