Sun, Jun 2, 2019
30 years on from the Chinese state's brutal put-down of a student-led pro-democracy protest in 1989, ABC Australia looks back through its video archive to unearth never-before-seen footage captured by its team on the ground. A watershed moment in a post-Mao China, the Communist Party has sought to erase all public discourse and memory of that day, making this record all the more significant.
Sun, Oct 13, 2019
The infiltration of Australia's universities by the Chinese Communist Party. Australia's universities are embroiled in a growing geo-political storm amid rising concerns over the Chinese Government's expanding power abroad. Universities earn billions of dollars a year from student fees and research collaborations with China, but there are growing fears these lucrative arrangements may be putting our academic institutions at risk.