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The September quarter saw Australia’s economy experience its weakest growth in decades (outside of the pandemic), and the government is considering taking more power bill discounts to the next election.

‘We have traditional family values like Trump. We liked the sound of Trump’s position on law and order and his intention to be tough on crime and supportive of the police.’

Balancing diplomacy and the national interest takes nuance, maturity and common sense, say Crikey readers.

Australian media have significantly increased their reporting on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Chinese-Australian communities in the past few years.

Reports about China’s ‘influence’ made public more suspicious of Chinese-Australian communities, according to 70% of respondents to UTS survey

Few nation-states have been shaped by their underlying physical geography and location in the world quite as much as Australia.

Ten years ago, a group of images on a popular Chinese website caught my attention. They showed young rural migrant workers in intimate, though not overtly sexual situations: talking quietly, holding hands, kissing, embracing, or simply sitting close to each other with their limbs intertwined.

The Chinese-owned social media app is once again in Canberra’s crosshairs. But banning WeChat would render many Chinese Australians ‘blind, deaf and mute’.

Early this month, the Daily Mail published a story online implying three Chinese men taking photos at the Avalon Airshow in Melbourne were spies. After complaints and an open letter condemning the paper for racially profiling the Chinese communities and throwing around baseless accusations, the story disappeared from the Mail’s…