May 21st, 2019
South of the Clouds – Enchanting Yunnan Province Welcoming Your Australian Exports

The gateway to South East Asia and South Asia radiating out as part of the maritime Belt and Road and the ancient Silk Road, Yunnan is an often overlooked part of China. Bordering Burma, Laos and Vietnam with Thailand and Cambodia linked by water – Yunnan is a great jumping off point for the broader […]

May 8th, 2019
Bendigo a microcosm of early Chinese Culture and Language

I grew up in rural Victoria – up in the Mallee – a long way in those days from Melbourne. In a small country town the school was bland and vanilla compared to multicultural Australia as we now know it. Our only awareness of other cultures came on visits to Bendigo – to the local […]

The top political topics on English language social media are the Adani coal mine, economy, social policy, governance and the environment (Fin Review, 24 April 2019), with Bill Shorten, Scott Morrison and Pauline Hanson the top politicians mentioned, but as we heard on ABC’s AM this morning, there is a whole other social media world […]

April 16th, 2019
The Importance of Language and Culture in Chisholm Election

by Kate Ritchie Sunday afternoon at the Mountain View Hotel – not the usual meeting place for Chinese voters – saw an encounter between the two Chinese candidates standing for the Federal election which will deliver the first ever Chinese woman to the House of Representatives in Canberra. A public debate was staged with an […]