one fellow's political coverage, music ramblings and general hijinks across decades under a range of guises at several locations often in a state of awe.
Yesterday Vietnam deported a Vietnamese-American pro-democracy activist after his arrest last month with a group of other dissidents triggered protests from the United States. And last week, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom reported that Vietnam’s overall human rights record remained very poor, and has deteriorated in the last year.
BRISBANE–Wrote this in a flourish when dad died. Not quite right then, with so much detail, now found it makes sense.
Adam Connors finds a quiet corner of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) offices in Perth to speak to Grok briefly about his formative years as a Curtin University student, back in the early-to-mid 1990s, when he wrote for Grok Magazine and worked on his Honours in English.
Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China by John Garnaut
By John Fitzgerald Inside Story April 18, 2016 China needs no help in silencing its critics at home and abroad. So how did Australia come to be part of the problem, asks John Fitzgerald.
One year on from the pro-democracy protests that brought Hong Kong to a standstill, organisers admit that China’s Communist leadership shows no sign of budging on reform, but a spark could reignite the movement.
The winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is due to be announced later this evening by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The region’s largest meeting of the year, the Pacific Islands Forum, kicks-off next week in Cairns and will be without official representation from Fiji or its interim prime minister and coup leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama.
WAROONA–By golly does having the hire car make a huge difference when in a country town. Headed up to Perth and the Pt Walter foreshore with Gene, Jacq and Chris for a bit of seagull chasing.
“Breaking Barriers – Access to Information”: Mark Scott, Session 6 Relationships and Role of Development Partners – Friends or Neo-Colonialists Pacific Partner, Pacific Friend: ABC International
