Australia’s oldest university campus should be heaving on a sunny autumn afternoon. Before the pandemic, the University of Sydney hosted more than 70,000 students. At lunchtime they would cram into its cafés and crowd onto its lawns. Now its grounds are practically deserted. Although Australia has...
James Frost - Australian Financial Review - Friday 29 May 2020 The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has dismissed a suggestion that it should relax an artificial lending hurdle in recognition of record low interest rates, saying there was no evidence credit was not flowing to where...
Aaron Patrick - The Australian Financial Review - Wednesday 27 May 2020 China ties Drew Pavlou has become a cause celebre for taking his university to task. Before he was dubbed the world's most famous undergraduate, Drew Pavlou was merely a "particularly annoying" student making life...
Jane Marwick - The Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 27 May 2020 Queensland University's bizarre persecution of a student for speaking out about China is a warning to all An Australian university, so troubled by the actions of one 20-year old undergraduate activist student, has gone to...
David Penberthy - The Australian - 25 May 2020 Liberal MP Dave Sharma has broken his silence about his defamation battle with former Labor candidate Melissa Parke, saying her ongoing bid to sue him over a solitary tweet criticising her antiIsrael views was a form of...
Richard Ferguson and Rachel Baxendale - The Australian - Monday 25 May 2020 Britain has followed Australia and the US in moving to lock out Chinese telco Huawei from its 5G network as two top US foreign policy figures stood behind the Morrison government and accused...
Andrew Tillet - Australian Financial Review - Saturday 23 May 2020 China hawks within the Morrison government are pushing ministers to take a tough line with Beijing after it moved to cement its control over Hong Kong in what looms as the latest flashpoint in the...
Ben Smee - The Guardian - Monday 25 May 2020 The chancellor of one of Australia’s top universities has said it will be in “a world of pain financially” if border closures continue into 2021 and foreign students are unable to travel next year. Peter Varghese, the...
Senator Paterson on ABC Radio: Hong Kong, China, Belt and Road...
Ben Smee - The Guardian - Sunday 24 May 2020 On Thursday morning Drew Pavlou, a 20-year-old activist from Brisbane, sent an “urgent” email to the vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland, Peter Høj. Attached was a two-second video of Pavlou, a student representative on the UQ senate,...