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Now they are no longer among the majority, nor do they even feature in Australia’s top 10 source countries for international students, national statistics show.
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong knows the importance of language in connecting with people or an entire region.
While many in the Sydney suburb of Kingsford were in the middle of enjoying their Saturday night out, Susan*, the owner of an eatery called Ben’s The Thai Takeaway, was packing up her empty restaurant at 8.30pm, half an hour before its official closing time.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has asked Australian businesses and academics to visit China more and increase partnerships with Chinese counterparts, particularly in green energy, while reaffirming the two countries’ relations are back on track after a successful reset.
“I think the basic impediment to Australian investors not coming into Southeast Asian markets in a meaningful way, or at all, is a historical preoccupation with developed Western markets and a lack of risk appetite for so-called developing markets,” he said.
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who holds an Australian passport, said at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday that a diplomatic approach would be a “far better way” of addressing Beijing’s “authoritarianism towards its own people” than buying nuclear-powered submarines, which would only force “China’s political class to close ranks around an authoritarian core”.
“Today, that peace, that stability and our continued success have come under threat. Once again, we must come together as partners to face the common challenges confronting the region,” he said. “Not one single country can do this by itself, no single force can attend, counter them, by themselves.”
The West has given “carte blanche” to Israel to continue its “murderous rampage on the Palestinians” for six decades, he said while giving the annual Gareth Evans oration at Canberra’s Australian National University on Thursday following the Asean-Australia Special Summit.