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Author: Dr Nina Khaze
A recently held 90-minute virtual meeting between Australia’s Trade and Tourism Minister, Senator Don Farrell, and China’s Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao—the first such bilateral meeting in three years—resulted in an invitation for Australian officials to visit Beijing. “This was the first meeting of Australian and Chinese Trade Ministers since 2019”, Minister Farrell said. “Our meeting represents another important step in the stabilisation of Australia’s relations with China. This follows Prime Minister Albanese’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and the agreement by Foreign Ministers in December 2022 to restart dialogue in a range of areas, including trade and…
The NSW Crime Commission’s Inquiry into Money Laundering via Electronic Gaming Machines in Hotels and Clubs has found that New South Wales has become the ‘gambling capital of Australia’, with $95 billion in cash annually flowing through pokies in licensed venues. In its report, the commission also found that large sums of the proceeds of crime “are being gambled by criminals in pubs and clubs across the state”. “It is deeply concerning peculiarity that in the largely cashless digital economy in which we live, gambling in NSW pubs and clubs remains a $95 billion-a-year information black hole. Clearly, that cannot be…
Australian Open 2023 saw the return of the world’s best tennis player Novak Djokovic to the throne. His 10th Australian Open title was, in the champion’s own words, “his greatest ever victory”. It was also a triumph of deeds over words, a victory of liberty and endurance over the media frenzy that fed on the negative news stories about Djokovic and his family over the past year. The stories were almost popular as Prince Harry’s Royal Family dramas, but with the addition of Australian immigration laws, the change of government and the Labor Minister for Immigration Andrew Giles’ reversal of…
While Australia is facing an unprecedented shortage of antibiotics and struggles to source more than 400 other medicines (some of which are used to treat chronic conditions), local compounding pharmacies are reviving the long-lost tradition of preparing medicines from raw ingredients. However, the lack of compounding experience in Australia in an industry that heavily relies on importing international expertise, means that it will not be easy to respond in the short term to the nation’s growing medicine availability crisis. Mike Yang, compounding pharmacist and owner of Synergy Compounding Pharmacy in Sydney’s Crows Nest, said: “We are a compounding pharmacy,…
Almost two decades ago, for his 21st birthday party, the currently serving Premier of NSW, Dominic Perrottet, wore a Nazi uniform costume. The party, hosted by Perrottet, was attended by about 100 people at his Pennant Hills home. Perrottet, who was president of the Young Liberals at the University of Sydney in 2003, has blamed his actions on “youthful mistake”. “Error of judgement” The incident comes as a major blow for NSW Liberal Party ahead of the upcoming state elections on March 25, where the Coalition Government seeks its fourth consecutive term. If it becomes an election issue for Liberals,…
On 5 January 2023, the Australian Government introduced mandatory Covid-19 testing for all incoming travelers from China, including Hong Kong and Makau. The Federal Department of Health and Ageing issued a passenger information sheet here. Within 48h of one’s scheduled departure to Australia, persons arriving from those destinations need to show evidence of a negative Covid-19 test before boarding. As the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese Zodiac (or Cat, in the Vietnamese zodiac for 2023) is fast approaching, it is likely that the latest restrictive move will make it much harder to reach any pre-pandemic levels of Chinese…
Happy New Year 2023! In Australia, families book weeks in advance to have Santa photos on the beach, in shopping centres and other various locations across the country. In Eastern Europe, there is a celebration of “Christmas Brother” as well as of “Grandfather Frost” painting house doors in gold, and bringing simple presents to well-behaved children and ashes to those who were misbehaving. But who is Santa Claus and how did he become so famous? Coca-Cola’s Father Christmas as a marketing image (1931) Many cultures across the world celebrate New Year with famed images of Santa Claus, a white bearded…
A Perth family lost their home just before Christmas, but its resident credits an Apple iPhone app to have saved lives in a housefire blaze in the early hours on 21 December. Valentina Pavlovic, a 19-year-old Perth teenager who has recently returned from Europe to take part in a study group to Singapore, said her life was probably saved by a new Apple iPhone that her mother Olga recently purchased for her. “I love Apple”, Valentina said for Fairfield Local News. “I always use Apple devices. After watching an Apple show, I opted for new iPhone 14 pro due to…
There is a strong community perception that being a Parliamentarian is prestigious and lucrative. They have decent salaries, take a trip around the world at least once in their parliamentary lifetime in the finest of conditions, their privileges extend into a comfortable daily life with Comcare cars and drivers, and they never need to carry their luggage while undertaking official duties. Not to mention the special Qantas Chairman’s lounge access, which is a gateway for the privileged few at any of Australia’s major airports. However, parliamentarians and their staff tend to work almost 24/7. Their staff’s number is on their…
Dr Nina Markovic Khaze from Fairfield Local News recently interviewed one of Australia’s preeminent experts on Indonesia from ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, Emeritus Professor Greg Fealy. Professor Fealy, do you think that Indonesia’s new “morality laws” are meant appease the hardliners in Jokowi’s government? Yes, in part, the new criminal code’s ‘moral clauses’ are a response to pressure from not just Islamic parties but also Muslim politicians in some of the other non-Islamic parties. It’s not just an attempt to further Islamise society but also to respond to the high levels of community concern about perceived immorality…