China crisis? Hardly - it doesn't matter most Aussie kids don't speak fluent Mandarin
- Written by Warren Midgley, Honorary Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Southern Queensland

Just before the May federal election, then shadow treasurer Chris Bowen gave a speech in which he lamented the low levels of Year 12 students studying Mandarin in Australia. The speech was at a launch for Labor’s plan to...
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