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Barley is not a random choice – here's the real reason China is taking on Australia over dumping

  • Written by: Weihuan Zhou, Senior Lecturer and member of Herbert Smith Freehills CIBEL Centre, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney, UNSW
Barley is not a random choice – here's the real reason China is taking on Australia over dumpingBarley is the perfect scapegoat. China's real concerns about Australia go deeper.Shutterstock

This week China launched its first ever anti-dumping investigation against Australia, targeting barley exports.

Australia’s barley industry is upset because it doesn’t believe it has been dumping.

But that isn’t the point. China’s...

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Labor's energy policy is savvy – now is it scare-proof?

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Hours before Bill Shorten delivered his energy policy on Thursday, Scott Morrison’s office had circulated an attack.

Labor’s plan was for a “carbon tax”; the proposed subsidy for “pink batteries” would leave households “$8000 out of pocket”.

It was a wild broadside that said much about how the...

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Aboriginal health messages need to be made with us rather than for us

  • Written by: Makungun Marika, Community Researcher, Menzies School of Health Research

Australian First Nations people waiting for appointments at Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations around the country will now see culturally relevant and locally produced content on the waiting room TVs.

Aboriginal Health TV, which launched in October, provides messages about leading health issues including smoking, eye and ear...

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How Australia’s Mandarin speakers get their news

  • Written by: Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
How Australia’s Mandarin speakers get their newsWeChat is a Chinese social media platform, similar to Facebook.Shutterstock

The question of how much influence the Chinese government wields on the Mandarin-speaking community in Australia has been of increasing interest in recent months.

But until now, there has been little data about how the Mandarin-speaking population in Australia accesses news...

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  7. City water restrictions hurt our most vulnerable – especially women
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  9. With China-US tensions on the rise, does Australia need a new defence strategy?
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  13. Where has the joy of writing gone and how do we get it back for our children?
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  28. Labor's worst polls since Turnbull; chaos likely in Victorian upper house
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